Hyperbole much?
The Daily Star brings the hysteria:
The elite troops will also be equipped with a new arsenal of deadly weapons, tried and tested by the US special forces.
Special soft-nose bullets designed to drop Jihadis on the spot will be issued to the crack force in the next few weeks.
The bullets, described as the most lethal ever made, are manufactured by a Swiss arms company which makes ammunition for the special forces.
One of bullets hyper-expands and has a devastating effect on a human body by causing a massive hole and almost instant death.
Yeah they’re getting subsonic hollow points.
November 30th, 2015 at 9:45 pm
Mucho hyperbole,
November 30th, 2015 at 9:47 pm
Unless they’re using them in SMGs, they’re going to be disappointed. There was a time that subsonic 9mm rounds were going to be The Next Great Thing until it happened they didn’t reliably expand in real world shootings. That was the beginning of the push toward +p and +p+ handgun rounds.
November 30th, 2015 at 9:54 pm
Also, The Derp is strong in this one…
November 30th, 2015 at 9:57 pm
British journos are the only people on the planet that know less about guns than American journos
November 30th, 2015 at 10:04 pm
As I read that I could hear brain cells screaming as they died.
November 30th, 2015 at 10:16 pm
Weapons-grade pearl-clutchery.
December 1st, 2015 at 12:41 am
They’re issuing them to the crack force?!?!
This WOD has gone too far…
December 1st, 2015 at 1:32 am
Sounds like a, um… what was that, real exotic, you’ve probably never heard of it… oh yeah, .45ACP. That’s the ticket.
December 1st, 2015 at 2:46 am
“Another bullet being issued to the crack unit is designed to break up or fragment on impact also causing serious wounds to the victim.
The bullet is designed not to pass through a body and so lessen the risk of innocent civilians being killed or injured.”
They say this, as if it were A Bad Thing.
December 1st, 2015 at 3:11 pm
Simultaneously one of the saddest and most hilarious pieces of “journalism” I’ve ever read.