wow

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/634415983741763594/683364431484158082/81179350_1656190047854411_2602637721952321536_n.png

The incinerator, while very well developed, is very likely a hoax, and I think it was confirmed to be so by the user, much to my chagrin

so it's a meme?

http://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/2017/04/17-incinerator-ultimate-varmint-cartridge-with-mach-5-speed/

it was made on april 1st

Which is of course, the day one makes such jokes

https://www.ar15.com/forums/general/-17-Incinerator-Improved-Fake-News/5-2032945/

I almost fell for it myself, it's too well designed and it's on an official gun ballistics website lol

And nowhere on it do they say it's a joke

But I'm pretty sure it's a joke

Not titanium but a tungsten alloy for that

It needs to be heavy to retain the momentum and titanium is rather light

Also they used a solid copper bullet too

But you can combine titanium with depleted uranium to make an alloy stronger than tungsten xD Also brass would be a little bit stronger than copper

@everybodydothatdinosaur there is an actual huge bottleneck cartrige out there that was made for a bullet speed record, even if that one was fake.

Ian covered that in one of Q&As

Yes there was, and it looks just like that one lol

Hence why I almost fell for it

let me see if I can dig it up

it got like 1500 m/s, which while fast, is about the upper limit for such a round, since gunpowder just can't burn much faster

Any value in using such hyper-sonic loads for sniping?

Tanks use special powder to get up to 1800 m/s, but that's it. Beyond that hydrogen would be your best bet for making it up to super high velocities, be it in both light-gas guns and combustion hydrogen guns

http://yaffa-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com/yaffadsp/images/dmImage/StandardImage/fdfd.png

ther riser for a longest shot record

lol

It is ridiculous

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http://www.sportingshooter.com.au/overseas/4-8km-shot-takes-out-world-record-for-longest-shot

I like how it's aiming down lol

Almost 5km shot

http://yaffa-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com/yaffadsp/images/dmImage/StandardImage/lklk-e1519926783837.png

that massive riser

Well it would be useful as an anti-material weapon, although it may lose it's velocity quickl if it's too high velocity, a lighter bullet tends to have a lower BC and a very fast moving bullet exponentially loses more of it's velocity, as aerodynamic resistance increases exponentially the faster you go. So twice as fast means over twice as much aerodynamic resistance, and so on

I was thinking more along the lines of a bullet with such velocity and weight that you don't need to account for drop and flight-time as much.

Problably squared, so over 4 times the air resistance if twice as fast

https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-468a39cd652b8c32540959641efcbe02.webp

That's an interesting idea and it would work really well out to a certain range before it inevitably dropped off

here you go

Speed record