Base bleed shells and bullets

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>>34958925
They are very popular in artillery / naval shells, some KE tank gun rounds also employ base bleed.
Most NATO countries used Rocket assisted or base bleed shells to get to the 30km minimum common artillery range.
But it's better to use cheap old stuff for training purposes for the most part. And they're arguably "fulminating" so use on small arms is impolitic.

The increase in range is only noticable if the gun had a super long range to begin with.

>>34958925
Throws off accruacy. Gerald bulls extended range full bore had significantly higher range but was about three times as inaccurate. relegating it to use for bombardment not precision. If I remember correctly it has something to do with the difficulty in creating a perfect burn rate on the gas cartridge which results in an asymmetrical gas cloud which can change the vector of the shell.

>>34960870
Thanks, but how don't rounds like the Raufoss have that risk too and they work fine?
>>34961320
That makes more sense now. But on the wiki page, it said the GC-45 Howitzer (the gun you're talking about) was smooth bore. Does rifling reduce the advantages of a base bleed?

>>34963291
Bulls guns weren't exactly smoothbore. They had rifling what was sometimes refereed to as "reverse rifling". the fins on the shells sit in grooves in the barrel and you have a very very very faint driving band to ensure a true seal. So as far as I'm aware rifling as no effect on basebleed.

>>34958925
>high explosive rocketball rounds

>>34963467
should also add that the GC-45's were riffled as they are made now they are still rifled they can fire m107 155mm shells quite easily. Bull was a mad genius

>>34961320
>Throws off accruacy.
Wasnt it the other way round since base bleed leads to far less turbulences?