The Russian Military already have fairly decent sniper rifles as well as 14.5mm Anti-Material Rifles for everything else... I'm not sure what the .408 CheyTac(10.3x77 mm) cartridge even brings to the table.Sounds like an attempt to sell prototype rifles in the U.S. at exorbitant prices. It would be a successful money (Ruble) maker.
No way this is gonna' happen........
Besides when the target sees the Rusky placing range flags every 500 meters he would move to a different foxhole.
Let’s take the shorter range of 5km (5400yards). Now let’s use 400 gr leigh bullets loaded to 3100fps. I’ll be generous and use the g1 bc which is .983. Now 5km is 5400yards, but my ballistics calculator only goes to 5000yards. With conventional propellants today, no matter what, the bullet will take a minimum of around 12 seconds to reach the target, drop 20,600in, and drift 1000in with a 10mph crosswind.
Eh, everybody lies about their "new super going to change the world" technology.It's the Russians. They lie.
Eh, everybody lies about their "new super going to change the world" technology.
It goes transonic at 2650fps.
The Russians sped up sound too so that they can communicate via transistor radio equipped with a Rockwell turbo encabulator. Just look up that turbo encabulator, it’s pretty impressive.Explain how a bullet goes transonic at more than Mach 2.
Using these parameters
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It goes transonic at 2650fps. After dropping 2600in and drifting 295in.
I think you are missing a critical difference here... when we lie it is advertising, when the Russians lie it is propraganda!
Going back to distance-to-horizon tables, 5000yds is 2.84 miles, to see that far you need an elevation of 5'-10" (±70").Now 5km is 5400yards, but my ballistics calculator only goes to 5000yards. With conventional propellants today, no matter what, the bullet will take a minimum of around 12 seconds to reach the target, drop 20,600in, and drift 1000in with a 10mph crosswind.
Even if the shooter could hold .5 MOA at that distance with allllll those variables the bullet will come across with extreme distance (which we know will not happen) the spread is 25 inches.
Came in to post exactly this. Such long ranges are basically worthless without either being up a tree or shooting from an elevated position into a valley.Ok, one major problem, here. To be able to see 7km (7655yds, 4.3miles) you need to be 4m (13') off the ground.
crap, I should probably start filing a patent and stop talking on the interwebnets
LoL.Although the original questions still stands; why bother?
If I find Thunkit, Hooda on a patent in the coming year, I'm going to be very upset.Don't bother with the patent application. Everything you talked about has already been done.
Yards*Explain how a bullet goes transonic at more than Mach 2.
I don’t think I will be able to, because the ballistics coefficient will be higher at the higher velocity (which I don’t know).Run the numbers at 4950 fps which is what they are claiming the new cartridge will deliver.