What exactly is a military class rifle round?

9 Responses

1. Think and Grow

   November 23rd, 2009 at 7:11 am

   Hi

   This question comes up when considering shipping guns to countries such as Mexico. Their laws specify that citizens may not own a gun in a cartridge used by the military. This leads to some interesting situations, for example, the 45 ACP cartridge is a "Military" cartridge, so Mexicans buy their 1911A1s in 38 Super.

   Other than that, military class cartridges are ones that have been used by a military somewhere on the planet. That includes about 70 percent of all cartridges.

2. ishootbirds2

   November 23rd, 2009 at 7:11 am

   "military class" is whatever you or your government calls it. there isn’t actually such a thing as "military class rifle round".
   There are rifle cartridges/calibers that the military uses, there are rifle cartridges/calibers that are military standardized, but there’s no "military class" rifle rounds/calibers.

   military class may be another term for any of the following: a certain type of cartridge caliber, like 7.62x39mm or 7.62x51mm NATO; or a type of bullet that is used by the military and unavailable to civilians, such as armor piercing (AP), exploding (HE), tracer, tracer-incendiary, armor piercing incendiary (API), or depleted uranium (DU).

   military class may also be something what the media/political lobbyists invented. an example would be the media’s claims that an American civilian and just go into some store and buy an assault rifle (the proper term is a military styled semiautomatic only sporting firearm, but assault rifle sounds more evil to make people wanna ban them). The media and political lobbyists do this all the time to churn up support for a certain cause by inventing terms like "military class round" or altering existing one like "assault rifles".

3. 13B US ARMY

   November 23rd, 2009 at 7:11 am

   FMJ, full metel jacket. TRACER rd, light coat of phospher on the tip to illiuminate the path of the bullet at night without using sights and daylight as well to walk in your shots quickly to target. SABO rd, plastic sleeve around a smaller bullet for higher velocities, like the 30/06 and 308 accelarator rds. Found in the 50 now,at 4,000 ftps. INCENDIRATING rd, white phospherous.Burns through metals at high temp and to light fires with. ARMOR PIERCING, outter copper jacket usauly steel core. DEPLETED URAINIUM rds, well that says it all. penetrates anything known to man. We got miles of Russian junk over here to prove that and sickly people where the rds have impacted. Help you any?

4. falcon5nz

   November 23rd, 2009 at 7:11 am

   Define military class rifle round. Do you mean what cartridges do military rifles use?

5. tiff

   November 23rd, 2009 at 7:11 am

   As far as I can see it’s just about any type, size, composition of ammo that provides the military the desired results.

6. Red Handed

   November 23rd, 2009 at 7:11 am

   try going to armystudyguide.com, maybe that will help you out. I think that maybe it’s gonna be any rifle, in Iraq, the military used nonlethal 12 guage rounds. In Afghanistan they used 5.56 for a infantryman, all of the common marines/soldiers I think.

7. .700 nitro

   November 23rd, 2009 at 7:11 am

   Classification means for example small arms rounds like the 5.56

8. D. L

   November 23rd, 2009 at 7:11 am

   OK, here you go. The term came out shortly after WW2, when there were millions of surplus militry weapons selling for next to nothing at almost every store. Even Western Auto had mausers and Enfields for $15.00, and they were cherry.

   Regardless of the nation, a military round was one with a bullet of AROUND 150-200 grains, and AROUND 2,500-2,900 f.p.s. The heavier rounds were slightly slower, but equal power-wise. For example the 7.9 Mauser rifle round was about 200 grains at 2,500 f.p.s., and the 7.62 x 54 rimmed Russian rifle round was around 150 grains at about 2,900 f.p.s.

9. maintman73

   November 23rd, 2009 at 7:11 am

   short and sweet… any round used by NATO forces .223 ,30-06 , 45 acp 40sw 9mm .308 50 BMG and on and on and on

Leave a Comment