Projectile and method of manufacture

Abstract

Projectiles configured to contain and disperse a payload, for example, when fired from a gas-operated gun, and methods for the manufacture of projectiles. The projectiles have a forward end, a rearward end, a head at the forward end, a skirt at the rearward end, a waist between the head and skirt, and a central axis between the forward and rearward ends. The head has a shape that increases in diameter in an axial direction of the projectile toward the rearward end. The projectile has first and second shells assembled together to define an exterior shape of the projectile and a cavity within the projectile for containing a payload. The first and second shells have rims that are complementary in size and shape to each other to enable the first and second shells to be assembled together by mating their second rims to form the projectile and the exterior shape thereof.

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