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Originally Posted by HHI944
The guys at the lodge need to stop talking out of their arse.
M855 is not armor piercing, it is light barrier penetrating. Pretty much an round in 5.56mm will defeat soft level IIIA and lower armor. On the other hand, short of M995, which is no longer available to civilians, a 5.56 is not going to penetrate hard armor.
As far as "going right through them", that's going to happen with any small caliber, high velocity ball round. It really is a shame we tie our troops hands by only allowing ball ammo. There are some very effective hollow point options available for 5.56 these days.
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You're right; we don't use HP rounds in the Army, but that 5.56 coming out of an M-16 still makes a much larger hole coming out than it does going in.