The US Navy defines blended-metal bullets as, "projectiles which utilize cores manufactured with materials other than lead, using processes other than melting." The solicitation elaborates as follows:
Blended-metal rounds are commercially available at this time in limited quantities from independent dealers in a variety of calibers, and sintered non-lead bullets have been available for
handloading since at least 2006.
RBCD Performance Plus, Inc.
One now-defunct company, RBCD Performance Plus, Inc. of
San Antonio
("Cradle of Freedom")
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Texas
Texas (, ; Spanish: ''Texas'', ''Tejas'') is a state in the South Central region of the United States. At 268,596 square miles (695,662 km2), and with more than 29.1 million residents in 2020, it is the second-largest U.S. state by ...
, produced
ammunition marketed as blended-metal bullets.
However, RBCD's "Blended-Metal Technology" (BMT) was a trademark and not a description of bullet composition.
Independent testing by Gary Roberts showed that RBCD ammunition was, "nothing but lightweight, repackaged varmint bullets disguised with a black coating of
moly, and driven to higher than normal velocities with concomitantly higher than normal pressures."
Roberts cites a
USSOCOM
The United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM or SOCOM) is the unified combatant command charged with overseeing the various special operations component commands of the Army, Marine Corps, Navy, and Air Force of the United States Ar ...
and
ARDEC study published in 2007 which supports his findings.
References
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