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Featured Article Eugene Morrison Stoner was born on this day in 1922. The man most associated with the design of the AR-15, which was adopted by the US military as the M16, is regarded by most historians, along with John Browning and John Garand, as one of the United States’ most successful military firearms designers of the 20th century. He is also, along with the Soviet designer Mikhail Kalashnikov, considered by some historians as one of the two men whose work most shaped the events of the last half of the 20th century. The prolific designer of rifles began work in the aircraft industry before taking his expertise, along with plenty of new notions about engineering and alloys, to ArmaLite where his career in firearms design really took off. (Read more ...) [more] What else happened today 1874 — French target shooter and Olympic medalist Eugene Balme was born in Oullins, a suburb of Lyon. 1922 — Eugene Morrison Stoner (inventor of the AR-15, which was adopted by the military as the M16) is born in Gosport, Indiana. He is regarded by most historians, along with John Browning and John Garand, as one of the United States’ most successful military firearms designers of the 20th century. 1963 — American President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas. The Warren Commission would later offer the ridiculous-seeming "magic bullet theory" as an explanation to how one bullet could traverse 15 layers of clothing, 7 layers of skin, 15 inches of tissue and a necktie knot, remove 4 inches of rib, and shatter a radius bone. Newest articles Most popular this month Contact shot - ( 42927 views ) Cartridge - ( 32352 views ) Cooey model 84 - ( 31523 views ) Cooey model 60 - ( 28662 views ) Cooey model 39 - ( 27047 views ) AR-15 - ( 26177 views ) Ross rifle - ( 25120 views ) SIG Sauer P226 - ( 23647 views ) Cooey model 82 - ( 23026 views ) Table of Cooey firearms - ( 22485 views )

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Article Of The Moment Brisance is a measure of the rapidity with which an explosive develops its maximum pressure. In addition to strength, explosive materials display a second characteristic, which is their shattering effect or brisance (from the French briser, to break), which is distinguished from their total work capacity. This characteristic is of practical importance in determining the effectiveness of an explosion in fragmenting shells, bomb casings, grenades, structures, and the like. A brisant explosive is one in which the maximum pressure is attained so rapidly that a shock wave is formed, and the net effect is to shatter (by shock resonance) the material surrounding or in contact with the supersonic detonation wave created by this explosive. Thus brisance is a measure of the shattering ability of an explosive. The sand crush test is commonly employed to determine the relative brisance in comparison to TNT. No single test is capable of directly comparing the explosive properties of two or more compounds; it is important to examine the data from several such tests (sand crush, trauzl, and so forth) in order to gauge relative brisance. True values for comparison will require field experiments. One of the most brisant of the conventional explosives is cyclotrimethylene trinitramine (also known as RDX). References Initial version taken from now-unavailable U.S. Military public domain resource here See also Relative effectiveness factor