Snail ammo by Libra a.s. company

[Bobby - CSLA team 0]

Czech company Libra a.s. developed special piercing ammo for Special Units and Police. Criminals nad terrorists are very often equiped with bulletproof equipment and therefore Czech gomerment asked for special ammo to deal with them.

New ammo - SNAIL - for short weapons (pistols and revolvers) has been developed. It is more powerful than regular rifle ammo and is able to penetrate all equipment which i resistant to attack rifles, including bulletproof vest with kevral filling or ceramics plates. Even titanium helmet does not protect against this kind of ammo.

Standard layreded 30mm bullet proof glas (used un armored cars for VIPs) can be easily penetrated (about 2 cm holes) as well as 8 mm steel plate.

Some info, that this ammo originally mentioned for SF, leaked to Ukraina and to some Arab countries was presented in press in Czech Republic.

Maybe another famous CZECH product after SEMTEX.

[Ares1978 0]

http://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/article.cfm?Id=1103

Seems like a Czech version of the Swedish M/39B. Well, with 80m/s higher muzzle velocity.

Them Czechs sure can make good weapons and ammo.  

[Bobby - CSLA team 0]

What disturbed be little bit is leak of this ammo to middle east, as was written in Czech press. Imagine Iraq insurgents using this ammo against kevral vest of U.S. Marines.

[Albert Schweitzer 10]

I doubt this invention will help the world to become a better place.

[Ares1978 0]

I'm sure the amounts that have leaked are so small, they won't make any difference. Especially if it's intended for pistols. Of course, it would only be fair play if they had large quantities of it.

[Bobby - CSLA team 0]

Sometimes I am curious about our security agency...if such a things can happen...

Questioned amount of ammo is 14.000 rounds.

[-ZG-BUZZARD 0]

I doubt that 14.000 rounds of ammo will lead to 14.000 corpses...

[Ares1978 0]

BUZZARD @ Nov. 12 2004,15:08)]I doubt that 14.000 rounds of ammo will lead to 14.000 corpses...  

Or even 14 000 rounds fired.

[Tovarish 0]

I'd be more worried about reverse engineering.

[bonko the sane 2]

I'd be more worried about reverse engineering.

yup, most likely allready underway in full strenght...

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">Libra says he could apply the same design concept to any caliber ammunition.

He is working on a 7.62 x 39 mm version for the Czech Republic army

and it wont be just small arms ammo...but look on the bright side, at least there will be less depleted uranium vaporising on the atmosphere

[Ares1978 0]

There's no mystery to them. "Anybody" could make them already. But try and find a weapon that doesn't break. Most pistols seem to have serious problems even with normal SMG loads.

[Tovarish 0]

On a lighter note....

Quote[/b] ]nad terrorists are very often equiped with bulletproof equipment and therefore Czech gomerment asked for special ammo to deal with them.

*chuckle*

[Leveler 0]

I wonder how powerful the 7.62 version will be

And with its simple design, construction will be possible for anyone.

[FSPilot 0]

Bigger bullets, that'll solve all of our problems.

[Ares1978 0]

Bigger bullets, that'll solve all of our problems.

Come on, give bullets a chance.