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December 29, 2019

Why we need NATO – in a single bullet

Thomas Levenson
December 29, 2019

from The Boston Globe, May 6, 2017

IT’S JUST 5.56 centimeters long — about 2 inches — and only 5.7 millimeters in diameter at its business end. In its most common American variant, it weighs 12.3 grams. It can reach a muzzle velocity of over 3,000 feet per second, and it is designed to penetrate three-eighths of an inch of steel at 350 meters.

It is, of course, a bullet.

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