M634 Experimental High-Powered Semi-Armor-Piercing: Difference between revisions
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==History== | ==History== | ||
Unlike most ammunition types in the Halo games, this is not a real-life ammo type, the closest comparison being the [[wikipedia:9x39mm|9x39mm]] special purpose round. Designed in the Soviet Union, this round was designed to defeat | Unlike most ammunition types in the Halo games, this is not a real-life ammo type, the closest comparison being the [[wikipedia:9x39mm|9x39mm]] special purpose round. Designed in the Soviet Union, this round was designed to defeat body armor at ranges closer than 100 meters, and be subsonic, so it can be easily used in suppressed firearms. In fact, most weapons firing it have an ''integrated'' silencer. | ||
The M634 is likely the result of the human inclinations towards bigger things (leading to the 9.5 mm bullet) and technological manipulation (leading to the experimental propellant). | The M634 is likely the result of the human inclinations towards bigger things (leading to the 9.5 mm bullet) and technological manipulation (leading to the experimental propellant). | ||