Green bullet
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Green bullet, green ammunition or green ammo are nicknames for a United States Department of Defense program to eliminate the use of hazardous materials from small arms ammunition and from small arms
M855A1 projectiles for 5.56×45mm NATO rifles replace traditional lead alloy cores with an environmentally friendly copper core with a 19-grain (1.2 g) steel "stacked-cone" penetrating tip.
Jim Newill explains the effectiveness of the Army's 5.56mm M855A1 Enhanced Performance Round (2011)
5.56×45mm NATO
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The 5.56×45mm NATO is a rimless bottlenecked centerfire intermediate cartridge family developed in the late 1970s in Belgium by FN Herstal. It consists of the SS109, L110, and SS111 cartridges. On 28
Green bullet
…at each outdoor firing range as well as the $100 thousand annual costs for lead contamination monitoring". Two green ammunition cartridges are the 5.56×45mm NATO M855A1 and the MK281 40 mm grenade. Switching to the 5.56 mm green bullet, the M855A1 Enhanced Performance Round, or EPR, in 2010 has eliminated nearly 2,000…
5.56×45mm NATO with measurement, left to right: Bullet, case, and complete cartridge
The 7.62×51mm NATO and 5.56×45mm NATO cartridges compared to an AA battery
Service rifle cartridge cases: (left to right) 7.62×54mmR, 7.62×51mm NATO, 7.62×39mm, 5.56×45mm NATO, 5.45×39mm
5.56×45mm NATO cartridges in a STANAG magazine