A Note or the Determination of Wzcoghet Trace of Smalla Rms Ammunition

The problem of ricochet of any projectile when it fails to hit the target or ifter its impact on the target, is of great importawe for the services as well as for the police personnel. The ricochet process is of constant concern for the Airforce authorities also during air to ground attack, due to the chances of hit to own a h a & from own fire. Whenever any bullet hits the pound short of target, it may deflect considerably from its original path due to high energy it possesses. The ricochetted projectile may travel in a direction quite different f om its original one and up to a distance which depends on a number of factors related to the ammunition, nature of ground, angle of impact and initial velocity of bullet etc. Though some classified literature is availahle for calculatillg the ricochet distance and ricochet heiqht in the case of APDS projectiles, nothing of this sort is available to predict the same for small arms ball ammunition, where the projectile undergoes deformation on impact. d