Английская Википедия:14.5×114mm

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The 14.5×114mm (.57 calibre) is a heavy machine gun and anti-materiel rifle cartridge used by the Soviet Union, the former Warsaw Pact, modern Russia, and other countries.

It was originally developed for the PTRS and PTRD anti-tank rifles, and was later used as the basis for the KPV heavy machine gun that formed the basis of the ZPU series anti-aircraft guns that is also the main armament of the BTR series of armoured personnel carriers from the BTR-60 to the BTR-80 and for heavy anti-materiel sniper rifles.

Cartridge dimensions

The 14.5×114mm has 42.53 ml (655 grains H2O) cartridge case capacity. The exterior shape of the case was designed to promote reliable case feeding and extraction in bolt-action rifles, semi-automatic rifles, and heavy machine guns alike, under extreme conditions.

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14.5×114mm maximum cartridge dimensions. All dimensions in millimetres (mm).

Americans define the shoulder angle at alpha/2 = 22.5 degrees. The common rifling twist rate for this cartridge is 455 mm (1 in 17.91 in), 8 grooves, ⌀ lands = 14.50 mm, ⌀ grooves = 14.95 mm.

According to the official guidelines the 14.5×114 case can handle up to 360 MPa (52,213 psi) piezo pressure. In C.I.P. regulated countries every rifle cartridge combo has to be proofed at 125% of this maximum C.I.P. pressure to be certified for sale to consumers.

Ammunition types

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B-32 API projectile on the left, hardened steel core aside. Tip is black with a thin red band below. On the right, BZT API-T projectile with dark red tip and a wide red band below; hardened steel core and tracer cup on its right. Both jackets and the tracer cup are made from copper-washed steel. Between the cores and the jackets there is a layer of lead.
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Dummy round
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14.5 x 114 round with a 1$ dollar bill for reference
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Seven rounds of 14.5 x 114 made in 1981, with a 1$ dollar bill for reference
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14.5 x 114 Russian Ammunition base. Made in 1981

Cartridges use lacquered steel cases and percussion primers. Some countries also use brass cartridge cases. The propellant consists of Шаблон:Convert smokeless powder with seven tubes, designated as "5/7NA powder". Two different versions of bullet series are known, the earlier has a conventional bullet jacket with a boat-tail. These have a long engraving portion that causes considerable barrel wear. The newer bullet types have a smaller engraving portion with a rounder boat-tail and were used from about 1957 onward.

The cartridge has been manufactured in Bulgaria, China, Egypt, Hungary, Iraq, North Korea, Poland, Romania, Russia, and the former Czechoslovakia. There are new Chinese armour-piercing types:[5]

Chambered weapons

Anti-materiel rifles

Machine guns

  • Slostin machine gun (heavy variant)
  • KPV heavy machine gun
    • Chinese Type 56 (KPV) and Type 58 (KPVT) heavy machine guns
  • Type 02/QJG-02 heavy machine gun[8]

Other

In addition, the Ukrainian "Horizon's Lord" sniper rifle fires a 12.7×114HL round made by necking down a 14.5×114mm cartridge case to accept a 12.7mm/.50 BMG bullet.[10]

See also

References

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Further reading

External links

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