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US 2024/0230295 A1Published application
Projectile for ammunition
AssigneeRuag Ammotec GmbH
InventorsMichael Muster, Markus Grünig, Donald Meyer
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Abstract
A projectile for ammunition, such as a bullet for ammunition, may have a caliber of at most 13 mm. The projectile may include a bullet core made of iron and a surface coating. The surface coating may from an outer skin of the bullet at least sectionally and/or having a thickness of more than 1 μm and less than 50 μm.
Claims22
A bullet for ammunition, comprising:
- a bullet body of iron;
- and
- a surface coating forming an outer skin of the bullet at least sectionally and having a thickness of more than 1 μm and less than 50 μm.
A bullet for ammunition, comprising:
- an ogive-like bullet front,
- a cylindrical guide band adjoining the bullet front in a longitudinal direction of the bullet and configured to engage in a land-and-groove profile of a barrel of a handgun, and
- a bullet tail adjoining the adjoining the guide band in the longitudinal direction of the bullet, a jacket surface of the bullet tail being structured at least sectionally such that a press-through resistance of the bullet tail with respect to the barrel is smaller than that of the guide band.
A method of manufacturing a bullet for ammunition, comprising:
- forming a bullet body from iron;
- and
- coating, at least sectionally, the bullet body with a surface coating having a thickness of more than 1 μm and less than 50 μm to form an outer skin of the bullet.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.