Newest Army small arms shoots excess 12,050 ft/sec

[TOPO-sniper]

At least thats what I saw on the History channel show "Boneyard" this morning......

M2 50cal = 3,050 ft/sec - yup
M9 Beretta = 12,050 ft/sec - huh??
M16 = 27,050 ft/sec - WTF???

My wife just rolled her eyes when I had to correct the TV

 

[Alaskaman11]

Re: Newest Army small arms shoots excess 12,050 ft/sec

27050, hell ain't that getting close to light speed?

 

[stefan73]

Re: Newest Army small arms shoots excess 12,050 ft/sec

Darn the Wikileaks, giving away all our secrets

 

[TOPO-sniper]

Re: Newest Army small arms shoots excess 12,050 ft/sec

LOL, not quite speed of light but it IS a little faster than orbital velocity if the International Space Station at ~190 nmi altitude (see sig line)

 

[Graham]

Re: Newest Army small arms shoots excess 12,050 ft/sec

I don't see how a velocity that high would even work with a conventional bullet: wouldn't extreme velocity increase the force applied to the bullet ahead of the center of gravity and make the bullet unstable?

 

[Alaskaman11]

Re: Newest Army small arms shoots excess 12,050 ft/sec

It's warp speed bitch! I'm going to shoot said bad guy, and the guy on the other side of that mountain

 

[Switchblade]

Re: Newest Army small arms shoots excess 12,050 ft/sec

M2 50cal = 3,050 ft/sec - yup
M9 Beretta = 1,205 ft/sec - huh??
M16 = 2,705 ft/sec - WTF???
Even 'fixing' them they still don't look right because the M16 is supposed to be 3150fps

 

[MKSMN]

Re: Newest Army small arms shoots excess 12,050 ft/sec

I saw the title and thought, oh, "WTF, no way that's right." Sure enough, Hollywood to the rescue with its impossible ballistics again. LOL

 

[marduk185]

Re: Newest Army small arms shoots excess 12,050 ft/sec

WOW!!! now thats a fast bullet!

 

[Kinsman]

Re: Newest Army small arms shoots excess 12,050 ft/sec

I had a gun like that one time. A 20 mm necked down to 17 cal. 200 gr of Bullseye over a double stacked mag primer.
It went so fast the stainless steel bullet would hit the target just before I pulled the trigger.