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The Army Test New Long Range Bullet
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<blockquote data-quote="britz" data-source="post: 273794" data-attributes="member: 7865"><p>This one has been going around for a while. pretty funny stuff. over on 6br there was discussion about them possibly helping subsonic projectiles???</p><p></p><p>The army actually was messing around with the idea of creating dimples on projectiles back in the early '40's. A scientist was given the task of developing a bomb to blow up damns and they realized that dropping a sphere from a plane at low level was the ticket. They found that the gulf ball dimples was the ideal surface to ensure the bomb skipped on the water properly and stayed on target... however they ended up just using drum bombs with backspin if memory serves. They skipped the dimples because it was too hard to manufacture the dimpled shell at the time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="britz, post: 273794, member: 7865"] This one has been going around for a while. pretty funny stuff. over on 6br there was discussion about them possibly helping subsonic projectiles??? The army actually was messing around with the idea of creating dimples on projectiles back in the early '40's. A scientist was given the task of developing a bomb to blow up damns and they realized that dropping a sphere from a plane at low level was the ticket. They found that the gulf ball dimples was the ideal surface to ensure the bomb skipped on the water properly and stayed on target... however they ended up just using drum bombs with backspin if memory serves. They skipped the dimples because it was too hard to manufacture the dimpled shell at the time. [/QUOTE]
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