Talk:Incendiary ammunition
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Early make
[edit]An early make of incendiary ammunition was the British De Wilde used in WW I against Zeppelins. The firework manufacturer Brocks also made an incendiary round. Both these types were in .303 British, and intended to ignite the hydrogen gas in the airships. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.40.254.20 (talk) 15:20, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
Use in Second World War
[edit]This extract raises an issue:
"Another use of incidiary rounds in World War II was in the case of one of the first Special Air Service raids on a German airfield. The SAS loaded their mounted guns with a mix of tracer and incidiary rounds and drove past in Land Rovers whilst firing on the enemy aircraft parked next to the runway. Over 60 enemy aircraft were destroyed with the SAS sustaining no casualties."
This clashes with the Land Rover article:
"The first Land Rover was designed in 1948"
Therefore, the Land rover cannot have been used By the Special Air Service in the second world war. I'm not going to rectify this, as I do not know what vehicles the SAS did use, but if another user finds the answer, please rectify this mistake. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.28.134.142 (talk) 12:20, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
Mythbusters
[edit]In a Mythbusters episode, Jamie stated that it was air friction that caused the incendiary feature to ignite. Indeed, someone added this bit of misinformation to the article (making me wonder which came first, the edit or the episode). A quick check of the source provided in the article clearly shows that it's the bullet's impact that triggers the incendiary part of the round. My own experience shooting a wide variety of rounds in the Army also backs this up (though that's original research and not something we'd use here - it does guide me in sniffing out bullshit). My guess is that Jamie looked at the painted tips of the bullets and decided that's where the "action" is - whereas the tips are painted simply to indicate bullet type. Rklawton (talk) 16:54, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
Pomeroy bullets in WWI
[edit]Since Buckingham ammunition described as flat-nosed (in Balloon buster), were the Pomeroy bullets pointed ? - Rod57 (talk) 00:48, 20 September 2016 (UTC)
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303 BVI and BVII incendiaries - and modern incendiary ammunition
[edit]Can someone amend the incendiary bullet information to accommodate the correct type of filler for incendiary bullets? It states a nitrocellulose fill, which is incorrect and was never used. Early .303 rounds were white phosphorus filled, with a weep hole on the side that expelled the burning phosphorus, resulting in a spiral of white smoke. The B VI (Mark 6) and VII (Mark 7) incendiaries were filled with 6 or 7 grains of SR365 incendiary mix respectively (SR365 is 50% of 50/50 magnalium powder and 50% barium nitrate (magnalium is an alloy of 50% aluminum and 50% magnesium). Almost all modern incendiaries follow this mixture, from the 30-06 and 50 BMG M1 incendiary rounds to the Russian 7.62x54r and 12.7x108 B32 API rounds. Modern U.S. 50 BMG ammo uses 50% sodium metaperiodate (NaIO4) and 50% magnalium.