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Aloha dos amigos. Today I bring you a report on some testing I did for two of the more popular rifle rounds as well as a third that surprised me. I'll be posting screenshots with my analysis. To start I will describe the color gradient used to trace each shot fired. It's a script that you can place in a init.sqf file for a mission. Red means the bullet is traveling with 100%-75% of the muzzle velocity. Yellow means the bullet is traveling with 74%-50% of the muzzle velocity. Green means the bullet is traveling with 49%-25% of the muzzle velocity. Blue means the bullet is traveling with 24%-10% of the muzzle velocity. White means the bullet is traveling with less than 10% of the muzzle velocity. So up first is from RHS. It is the M856A1 with Tracers. My first set of targets are wood walls. Here you can see the rounds pass through 4 walls but only 3 walls are doing lethal damage afterwards. The last section would only cause bruising. The next part of the testing was on metal sheet fencing. It might be thinner but it slows bullets down a little bit better. It only made it through four sections however I'd call three still lethal with 1 additional being questionable. In conclusion, the M856A1 seems solid enough, but not compared to the next options. Up next is the 5.56mm EPR round used in the NiArms magazines. So the EPR manages to penetrate through 6 layers but only 4 of those I would consider lethal. On metal fencing it still fairs better than the M856A1 with 5 fences penetrated with still lethal velocity. So with this knowledge the NiArms EPR magazines are better than the M856A1 in the RHS rounds. However! I found another magazine in the arsenal that is superior to all others. I present the M995 AP rounds used by the ACE mod. Granted it means having STANAG instead of the cool looking PMAGs but just look at the work it does This little fuckers penetrated 9 wood walls with 7 what I would consider lethal or nearly lethal. It penetrates 10 walls of sheet metal with 8 of them in the lethal range. But that's not all. It can penetrate sandbags as well as sandbag bunkers. Still not good enough? It can penetrate brick fucking walls. As well as standard house walls. In conclusion, I will be putting M995 AP in all my weapons from this point forward. I plan to also test 7.62x51 NATO and trajectory differences between rounds to see if a round is better suited for close or far ranges. Hope some of you find this information helpful. I spent a long time getting this test to work. Probably 4+ hours. Enjoy!

Hello folks, We're running screenshot competition again for the forum scroller and general recruiting messaging. We would love to see both staged and "in-field" images. If you've never done Arma photography, here is a helpful reddit post to help you get started. You can vote for your favorites by hitting the "upvote" button (please use only the upvote react), which will tallied when the competition ends on March 31st. The winner will be duly rewarded for their hard work. By submitting a screenshot to the competition, you're agreeing to allow the unit to use the image publicly to represent the unit, indefinitely. Thanks!

just wanted to let you know those trajectories colors aren't always accurate, ymmv

But the real question is am I willing to give up my PMAGs for the better round. Answer, probably not. Pretty cool demo though.