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jeeper1 wrote:
As far as I know, the military's smallest SLAP round is .50 BMG,

From http://usmilitary.about.com/library/milinfo/marinefacts/blslap.htm 7.62 was the smallest.
[font="Arial, Helvetica"]The 7.62mm effort was not successful in the M60 and caused catastrophic barrel failures due to in-bore break-up of the sabot and the penetrator puncturing the side of the barrel. Also, its increase in penetration was not on the same order of magnitude as the .50 caliber[/font]
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Not all together true. In about 1988/89 I was at Picatinny Arsenal and met the engineering team who developed the SLAP rounds for the USMC. They gave me three dummy rounds: .50, 7.62 (.308), and 5.56 (.223). The 7.62 was not developed for the M60, but rather for use in either an M14 or similar semi-automatic or a bolt action rifle. the 5.56 worked fine in the M16A1, but was too light to be very effective. I still have the three slightly tarnishedrounds on my desk.
 
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