Originally Posted by Tamara
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I'm no pilot, but have been told (by Air Marshals, actually) that the idea of a plane depressurizing from a few .36 caliber holes is pure bollocks...
Ii' guessing the bigger worry is passengers depressurizing from a few .54" holes that match up with the ones on the backside of the bad guys. It's hard to say since we're trying to divine the intent of a foreign bullet designer via his words passed through the brain of an AP reporter who likely wouldn't know a hollow point if you shot him with one.
Not to doubt your bullet-identification acumen TOO hard, but if you've been shot with it, either it's inside you or it exited; isn't it a touch hard to examine and thus determine it's JHP/FMJ-ness either way? (Yes, I know you were making a joke, and yes, I'm an ass sometimes. I accept it.)
That's really funny, but the point is to save the passengers, or as many as you can, from a smoking hole in the ground. That means you have to kill the BGs as quickly and efficiently as possible. I'll take my chances on being collateral damage over the certainty of a crash.
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That's why our guys use regular JHPs, I am informed. I do not know anything about the Czechs' doctrine.
Last edited by Tamara; 05-09-2016 at 07:41 PM.
Don't those guys have internet? Or read gun magazines?
Coulda saved a lot of time and research on improving the old regular hollowpoints with the new lightweight high speed bullets. Since its been done before. Several times. And kinda wasn't all that great. If they like the idea they could've just bought some instead of reinventing them.
Last time I have shot steel or aluminum panels, light and fast projectiles were more likely to penetrate those barriers than a 147gr JHP.
Blasphemy!
No Special Air Marshal ammo for you!
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Last edited by Hauptmann; 05-09-2016 at 10:21 PM.
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