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APLP · 05-10-2004, 20:28

My first post here,

Thanks for the chance to do so on this forum.

While at the Blackwater shootout we had the oppurtunity to film at 100,000 frames per second some of the BMT Land Warfare bullet designs impacting both steel and raw meat. We had hoped that high speed digital frames would provide data which could verify that the APLP (Armor Piercing Limited Penetration) bullets deploy differently when penetrating hard armor than they do when impacting living tissue or warm raw meat.

I will attempt to post the results of the high speed digital pictures tomorrow. What will be seen shows that in fact the BMT rifle rounds do in fact pass through hard steel very much intact, yet when impacting warm raw meat the bullets deploy very dramatically as a fragmenting round. X-ray live tissue impacts likewise have shown controlled depths with much greater than conventional lateral spreads of fragmentation when impacting live tissue. Unlike conventional bullet designs which often fragment due to destabilized trajectories when penetrating tissue, the BMT APLP rounds deploy with violent fragmentation from stabilized trajectories during penetration through warm raw meat or living tissues.

The recently developed third APLP bullet design which recently became operational is called the Land Warfare. The hard armor capability was signifigantly increased in this new design over what the polymer tipped CQB and Urban Warfare provided.

The short barrel 5.56 Land Warfare ammunition in the 1/7 twist barrels provides hard armor penetration capability not achievable from the M-855 Greentip bullets in any barrel length. The 12 inch 5.56 short barreled Land Warfare ammunition will penetrate 3/8" AR-500 with the bullet still intact, yet provide shoulder to shoulder penetration with over 20 inches of lateral fragmentation in hogs that weigh 200 pounds. There are no non-dedicated AP bullet designs that can penetrate as much armor in any of the currently procured 5.56, 7.62x51, or 300Winmag ammunition.

Le Mas Ltd. had the chance to also demonstrate the new .45acp CQB ammunition from a dedicated Glock-21 platform with drop in KKM barrels. The combination of the Glock-21 handgun and 6.5 inch KKM barrel delivers the 85 grain projectile at 2500fps. This handgun platform will defeat more hard and soft armor than any non dedicated AP 5.56 ammunition when fired from 5.56 barrels shorter than the M-4 in the CQB environment.

I will try to post some of this data tomorrow for anyone's review. Again thanks for the oppurtunity to post information here.

Stan Bulmer
Le Mas Ltd.

05-10-2004, 20:28	#20
APLP Guerrilla Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Washington Posts: 154	My first post here, Thanks for the chance to do so on this forum. While at the Blackwater shootout we had the oppurtunity to film at 100,000 frames per second some of the BMT Land Warfare bullet designs impacting both steel and raw meat. We had hoped that high speed digital frames would provide data which could verify that the APLP (Armor Piercing Limited Penetration) bullets deploy differently when penetrating hard armor than they do when impacting living tissue or warm raw meat. I will attempt to post the results of the high speed digital pictures tomorrow. What will be seen shows that in fact the BMT rifle rounds do in fact pass through hard steel very much intact, yet when impacting warm raw meat the bullets deploy very dramatically as a fragmenting round. X-ray live tissue impacts likewise have shown controlled depths with much greater than conventional lateral spreads of fragmentation when impacting live tissue. Unlike conventional bullet designs which often fragment due to destabilized trajectories when penetrating tissue, the BMT APLP rounds deploy with violent fragmentation from stabilized trajectories during penetration through warm raw meat or living tissues. The recently developed third APLP bullet design which recently became operational is called the Land Warfare. The hard armor capability was signifigantly increased in this new design over what the polymer tipped CQB and Urban Warfare provided. The short barrel 5.56 Land Warfare ammunition in the 1/7 twist barrels provides hard armor penetration capability not achievable from the M-855 Greentip bullets in any barrel length. The 12 inch 5.56 short barreled Land Warfare ammunition will penetrate 3/8" AR-500 with the bullet still intact, yet provide shoulder to shoulder penetration with over 20 inches of lateral fragmentation in hogs that weigh 200 pounds. There are no non-dedicated AP bullet designs that can penetrate as much armor in any of the currently procured 5.56, 7.62x51, or 300Winmag ammunition. Le Mas Ltd. had the chance to also demonstrate the new .45acp CQB ammunition from a dedicated Glock-21 platform with drop in KKM barrels. The combination of the Glock-21 handgun and 6.5 inch KKM barrel delivers the 85 grain projectile at 2500fps. This handgun platform will defeat more hard and soft armor than any non dedicated AP 5.56 ammunition when fired from 5.56 barrels shorter than the M-4 in the CQB environment. I will try to post some of this data tomorrow for anyone's review. Again thanks for the oppurtunity to post information here. Stan Bulmer Le Mas Ltd.
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