>>60149348>designed to explode"muh fragmentation" retards are the dumbest of the dumb. As bad as the "designed to wound, 5.56 can't kill anybody" retards. You've learned one little factoid and think you've got the whole picture. Fragmentation is only one wounding mechanism, and it results in lower penetration 100% of the time. When rounds are traveling at significant speed, the temporary wound cavity begins to tear and significantly more trauma is caused. Depending on a variety of factors such as bullet construction and size, this generally starts at around 1800-2000 feet per second. This means a round does not need to fragment to cause a permanent wound cavity much larger than the projectile. When combined with the greater penetration of a round that does not fragment, this often results in a much larger wound channel.
TL;DR high speed lead doesn't care about your feeling and fragmentation is an idiot trap newfags latch on to because it sounds cool and is easy to visualize.
