The AK-47 may fire conventional ball bullets with a lead or mild steel core or armour piercing incendiary (API) bullets with a hardened steel core.
We do NOT recommend using steel case ammo in your firearm unless it was designed for it (think Russian Cold War firearms like the AK-47). Remember that the higher quality the firearm is, the LESS tolerant it is of non-standard ammo.
How thick should a titanium plate be to stop an AK-47 bullet? Metal armor is effective at stopping high velocity projectiles due to the hardening process it goes through before use. The answer of . 25” given previosly is true for THAT piece of metal.
Steel cased ammo is designed for the AK-47 and their primers are much harder than brass boxer primers.
It can penetrate a 6 mm (0.2 in) thick St3 steel plate at 300 m (328 yd) and 6Zh85T body armour at 30 m (33 yd).
To these standards, some materials are natively “bulletproof”: a foot-thick concrete wall or two inches of solid steel will withstand many shots from a handgun, sub-machine gun, or rifle.
About one and a quarter inch of AR500-grade steel plate will stop a . 50 caliber bullet but steel is extremely heavy.
It is well known that bullets can rebound against bones, pivots, tip-overs, or fragments, generating severe internal injuries. AK-47 bullets are known to cause severe wounds, but they also have rectilinear trajectories, low risk of fragmentation, and low rocking movement risk.
A fully jacketed bullet from an assault rifle, such as an AK-47, will go much further and can easily shoot through a brick wall.
Though cheaper, steel offers a less malleable construction. As such, it creates a poorer seal — generally running dirtier across the board. This creates more opportunities for malfunctions due to carbon buildup. It also means a rifle shooting steel-cased ammo will be less reliable in the long run…
Level/Type III Body Armor
A 7.62mm FMJ is normally fired from an AK-47 style rifle or a sniper rifle. Level III will stop most of all 5.56mm and 7.62mm bullets, but will not defeat military-grade armor-piercing ammo.
Level III body armour vests must be able to withstand up to six shots from 7.62×51 NATO rounds. These vests are capable of stopping AK-47 rounds.
Steel bulletproof materials are heavy duty, yet at just a few millimeters thick, extremely effective in stopping modern firearm rounds. The steel deforms under the stresses from the bullet's energy but prevents the rounds from reaching their intended targets.
They were designed to be easily produced on the cheap, so any insurgency group that lacked state funding tended to use them instead of the more expensive NATO weapons, because even revolutionaries have budgets.
The AK-47 and AKM, with the 7.62 × 39 mm cartridge, have a maximum effective range of around 300 meters (330 yd).
But this simplicity is a reason for its success. Compared with other assault rifles, the AK-47 has generous clearance between its moving parts. That is bad for accuracy, but it means that the mechanism is unlikely to jam, no matter how clogged it gets with Sudanese sand or Nicaraguan mud.
The trained operator of a 50 caliber sniper rifle like the Barrett M82A1 has the choice of accurately hitting a long range target at 1,800 meters (1,969 yards) away,21 blasting through two inches of solid concrete at the shorter range of 200 meters (219 yards),22 or destroying a spectrum of personnel and material ...
Ammunition isn't a perishable good - if stored correctly, it can last almost indefinitely.
The legacy of the AK will forever be that it has killed more men than any other weapon. Even though it has been 70 years since the gun's creation, it is estimated that more than 250,000 people are still killed every year by AKs, and that number isn't necessarily decreasing.
The AK-47 (and its derivatives) is more than accurate enough for war conditions. If you have been in any war, you should know that in the case of a standard assault rifle, aiming at 500 m will not happen in 99.99% of cases.
AR-15. AR-15 rifles are lighter and have a higher rate of accuracy than the AK-47, but the AK-47 is considerably cheaper and more dependable in comparison. Both are extensively used by the military and police, as well as for general purpose hunting rifles and self-defense.
This round can penetrate 0.75 in (19 mm) of steel armor at 1,500 yards (1,400 m).
50-caliber armor-piercing bullet usually sinks nearly three inches into conventional bulletproof glass before stopping. Aluminum armor can stop it in half the distance—using a piece of material half the weight and thickness of traditional transparent armor.
Can Level 4 armor stop 50 BMG? Absolutely not! Unfortunately a 50 caliber BMG is just too fast and powerful for the human body to stop. With a muzzle velocity of 3,044 ft/s and an energy of 13,310 ft-lbs force, this bullet impact alone will destroy your skeletal structure.