ControlledBurn

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Lazarus_Long @ Oct. 24 2002,19:27)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Well...Technically the Marines IS in fact a part of the Navy and not a completely separate branch allthough they shudder at the thought of having to associate themselves with a bunch of squids. Â USMC officially goes under the Departement of the Navy.<span id='postcolor'> Right, the Marine Corps is the Men's Dept. The Navy consists of the Women and Children's Departments, and in the case of all those portly chiefs out there, the Maternity Dept. too.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (denoir @ July 13 2002,01:18)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (DarkLight @ July 13 2002,01:13)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">ps: little question: I found this on that website that someone posted here, it's about the M40 A1 sniper rifle, they wrote this: Muzzle velocity: Â ca 795 M/sec (2810 ft/sec Does that mean that in 1 second the bullet travels almost 800 m? Â Cuz that looks impossible, sheesh, that's faster than a jet!<span id='postcolor'> That is very possible. The Swedish m90 (Accuracy International L96A1 AW) has a muzzle velocity of about 800 m/s. Yepp, the bullet goes that fast <span id='postcolor'> Air has friction, therefore the bullet will constantly slow down. So, if a rifle has a muzzle velocity of 800m/s, then obviously it will not be moving at 800 m/s after 1 second of travel time. So, saying it's faster than a jet would be correct, but only for a short period of time. The best thing to do would be decide upon a range, find the theoretical friction in the air, and then use the the physics equation for determining average velocity.