That temporary cavity discussed above? The flesh all around it is obviously compressed as the cavity expands, and that’s where the shock wave starts. The cavitation and re-compression is so violent that you can see a small explosion in the first block from the compressing air.įinally, there’s the shock wave. There’s the laceration and crushing immediately around the bullet, the huge cavity as the gel flies apart, and the shockwave from that expansion as it forces the gel to fly outwards before re-compressing. In the above GIF of ballistics gel taking a. The flesh can tear and cells can burst as the tissue erupts outward and then slams back. That flesh maintains its momentum for a fraction of a second, billowing out from the path of the bullet. As the round travels through the body, it’s crushing the flesh and pushing it out of the way very quickly. The first cavity is the permanent one:the open space left from the laceration discussed above. Then, there’s the cavitation,which has two parts. First, there’s the laceration and crushing from the round’s traversalthrough the flesh. See, there are three major effects from a metal round hitting flesh that are likely to cause severe injury or death. An anti-personnel specific weapon usually has smaller rounds that are more likely to tumble when they strike human flesh. That said, it isn’t designed solely for anti-personnel use. Joseph Legros)įirst, the M2 and its ammunition can be legally used to target enemy personnel, despite apersistent myth that states it can only be aimed at equipment.
fires during an exercise in Germany in September 2018.
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