Can anybody identify this ammo and what it’s for

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Can anybody identify this ammo and what it’s for

Cleaning out old boxes and found this:

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Looks like 223 but I have no clue what it’s for or it’s caliber or anything about it except it was in a box full of old ammo

Mods: please move tread if I’m in wrong forum.
 
STANAG 4172 deals with 5.56mm ammo. It also discusses, I believe, link specifications.

Essentially, most (virtually all?) 5.56mm NATO LMGs using belts should be able to fire this ammo - given a BFA, of course. The FN Minimi is used by Canada and the US, of course, but there are others. The Ultimax 100 is widely used. The H&K MG4 fires this stuff, as does the CETME Ameli.

I'd be interested in seeing the headstamp.
 
ATOM said:
STANAG 4172 deals with 5.56mm ammo. It also discusses, I believe, link specifications.

Essentially, most (virtually all?) 5.56mm NATO LMGs using belts should be able to fire this ammo - given a BFA, of course. The FN Minimi is used by Canada and the US, of course, but there are others. The Ultimax 100 is widely used. The H&K MG4 fires this stuff, as does the CETME Ameli.

I'd be interested in seeing the headstamp.
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Ultimax’s feed from magazines not belts.
 
I'll take it if the OP doesn't want it! :)

I was (re) watching Black Hawk Down a week or so back, and in the scene where two soldiers get separated from the rest of their crew...there was a close-up of the one guy crouched down, with his belt-fed machine gun still at his shoulder. You could clearly see the ammo was just like this=blanks. (crimped-end where the bullet should be)
 
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