Military Firearms Ballistic Performance Demonstration - Past and Present

This is a fascinating film produced a number of years ago by a US government agency demonstrating the terminal ballistic performance of historic military weapons, including Civil War era weapons, all the way up to the modern 5.56 NATO round.

Ballistics experiments conducted by shooting bones embedded in gelatin blocks, done at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology by Dr. Bruce D. Ragsdale, M.D., Orthopedic Pathology Department, AFIP & Arnold R. Josselson, LTC, USAF, MC, Forensic Sciences Department, AFIP. Film is circa 1970.


This movie is part of the collection: Short Format Films

Producer: Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Dr. Bruce D. Ragsdale, and Arnold R. Josselson
Audio/Visual: sound, color
Language: English
Keywords: Armed Forces Institute of Pathology; firearms; ballistics; Civil War;
Contact Information: National Museum of Health and Medicine

The original film was placed into the public domain under Creative Commons license: CC0 1.0 Universal.

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