I just saw a GIF of a lead bullet hitting a steel plate and of course the copper jacket of the bullet flowers open and the lead just kind of smushes against the plate and doesn’t do anything, why don’t we make bullets out of a stronger metal?
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Because you generally aren’t shooting steel plates and when you are you do use some stronger.
Lead is cheap, heavy and because its soft it won’t go straight through a soft (flesh) target but deforms inside the target doing more damage.
But if you are shooting at vehicles known to be armoured…well it’s called armor penetrating rounds for a reason. They’re usually a steel or tungsten core in a copper jacket.
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