IMI 5.56mm Razor Core

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IMI Improves 5.56mm Ammunition Performance

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IMI's new RAZOR CORE Cartridge. Image: IMI

Israel Military Industries (IMI) has announced the release of a new 5.56mm cartridge dubbed ‘Razor Core’, optimized for higher performance. According Israel to Shmilovitz, IMI Vice President and Managing Director of IMI’s Yitzhak small-caliber ammunition division, the new cartridge is designed to achieve higher accuracy, effective stopping power at extended range of up to 600 meters.

Shmilovitz said this performance level makes the Razor Core attractive for special operations. “The Razor Core provides outstanding performance, while remaining at a very competitive price” Shmilovitz commented the new cartridge is already in production, and has been combat proven with an undisclosed customer. The 77 grain projectile is designed for use with rifles having standard 1:7 barrel twist, supporting both short and long barrel weapons, such as the M4 and M16. Its trajectory match is similar to standard ammunition, thus eliminating the need for weapon zeroing when switching ammunition types. According to IMI the Razor Core cartridge is designed for military and law enforcement applications but, its accuracy and affordability make it suitable for commercial and sport shooting as well.

IMI’s small caliber ammunition division is recognized by the Israel Ministry of Defense as the prime supplier of small-caliber ammunition to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). The division manufactures a complete range of ammunition, from 5.56mm to 0.5″ (12.7mm), including a wide range of armor-piercing, sniping and training ammunition. IMI’s 5.56mm BALL NATO and 9mm BALL NATO cartridges are both NATO qualified.
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Sounds interesting, but that name is going to cause them endless headaches. I can just see The Usual Suspects pontificating about how the cruel Israelis are shooting helpless civilians with bullets filled with razor blades...
 
From the Hague Conventions:
The Contracting Parties agree to abstain from the use of bullets which expand or flatten easily in the human body, such as bullets with a hard envelope which does not entirely cover the core, or is pierced with incisions. The Contracting Parties agree to abstain from the use of bullets which expand or flatten easily in the human body, such as bullets with a hard envelope which does not entirely cover the core, or is pierced with incisions.
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Virtually all FMJ bullets have exposed lead, meaning the lead core is indeed exposed if only on the base. The amount of exposure here actually appears less than most. In any case, the phrase in the Convention was intended as an example of "bullets which expand or flatten easily in the human body." If this does not expand, it's probably legal. If it doesn't flatten easily, it's probably legal.

Moreover, consider what comes next:

The present Declaration is only binding for the Contracting Powers in the case of a war between two or more of them. It shall cease to be binding from the time when, in a war between the Contracting Parties, one of the belligerents is joined by a non-Contracting Power.
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One could make a good case for even hollow-points being legal in internal conflict (vice between two countries). Cops in North America, for instance, use JHPs all the time, although some European forces do not, citing the Convention.
 
Most militaries including our own now use BTHP rifle ammo. The lawyers have long ago concluded that it is not designed to expand or flatten.
 
The Hague can go F itself. It's like telling armies they're limited to throwing sponges, and the armies figure out ways to fill the sponges with heavy liquid, make them bigger, increase their velocity, etc etc.. But your enemies can throw stones of any kind any way they want because they don't care about European ethics. In a lot of ways its similar to the Red Coats vs camo tree-huggers, having to stand out in the field due to ethics or morals or something. Honor. The red doesn't even help cloak blood because it is supposed to go brown.

I digress. The point is, they want your armies to fight with one arm tied behind their backs because you're then "superior" by default, if that makes any sense. Seriously, who thought of these rules? I could probably be more succinct but whatever. All it really does is force an extra man to drag a dying body out of combat so the extra man can see another day and make combat more difficult with two men down. Except, the enemy doesn't often care about dragging their own to safety, whether its due to them completing their goal (being killed for their cause) or knowing there isn't any medical help and they'll just bleed out anyway, and we don't leave men behind (The Hague doesn't care about this but we do). So they have two upper hands. Maybe soldiers should have to fight with their bootlaces tied together, too, for the "moral highground."
 
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I am not sure if this stuff is much different than any of the other OTM stuff that is being issued to folks overseas. Hornady Superformance match 5.56 in 75 grain I am sure would be much similar. Either way, heavy bullets are the way to go in a 5.56 if you have the rifling twist for it.
 
saskcop said:
I am not sure if this stuff is much different than any of the other OTM stuff that is being issued to folks overseas. Hornady Superformance match 5.56 in 75 grain I am sure would be much similar. Either way, heavy bullets are the way to go in a 5.56 if you have the rifling twist for it.
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I would agree, but hopefully if this is primarily a cartridge for the military it will be available in 1000 round ammo cans. If those cans ever make it to retail, I would hope for a good discount over 1000 rounds of hornady superperformance.
 
Onagoth said:
I would agree, but hopefully if this is primarily a cartridge for the military it will be available in 1000 round ammo cans. If those cans ever make it to retail, I would hope for a good discount over 1000 rounds of hornady superperformance.
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You got that right! Put me down for a few cases! But, I am not holding my breath at all.
 
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