Re: [ME]: Effectiveness of firearms

["Ryan Pendergast" <virtualpender@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > Well it *could* be a two-part round, the cylinder
> > and a disk underneath--or
> > maybe some sort of sabot arrangement.

>Sounded rather bizarre to me, too...much easier to
>shoot the driver and you'd be crippling you're own man

I don't know if this is the same round you were thinking of originally, but 
an American company produced some specialty armor piercing rounds in the 
1980's that were essentially "cookie cutters."  The company was Guilford 
Engineering Associates and the rounds were called ANHC (Annular Nose Hollow 
Core) in military contracts and were marketed as Cyclone rounds to law 
enforcement agencies.  The are just tapered steel cylinders, hollow cavity 
through the center, with a plastic nosecap to facilitate feeding.  They 
easily shred through dozens of layers of Kevlar or other ballistic fabrics 
and would probably do a number on rubber tires as well.  They were used by 
DELTA for a while and are currently in the inventory of the ATF.  If anyone 
is interested in stats, I have the numbers at home.

Ryan
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