tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21959449.post6430011817497437889..comments2023-11-05T13:50:41.904+02:00Comments on Doc's Talk: CNN footage shows Israeli troops firing rubber bullets, not live fire, in BeituniaGS Don Morris, Ph.D./Chana Givonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14028217914514268498noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21959449.post-32117673621769877742014-05-27T06:35:48.332+03:002014-05-27T06:35:48.332+03:00Spot on Ray-thank you for sharing the facts with a...Spot on Ray-thank you for sharing the facts with anonymus!!<br />DocGS Don Morris, Ph.D./Chana Givonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14028217914514268498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21959449.post-35550194128030383532014-05-27T04:02:09.675+03:002014-05-27T04:02:09.675+03:00Anonymous, a std NATO 5.56mm round travels at 1000...Anonymous, a std NATO 5.56mm round travels at 1000 m/sec. A rubber cylinder the IDF use in their M16s with the extended barrel travels at 150 m/sec. One is well below the speed of sound. The other is well above it.<br /><br />Anyone in vicinity would have known immediately by the sound if the IDF were firing std rounds. As would the demonstrators.<br /><br />The sound of the round coming in at well over the speed of sound is also very different.<br /><br />This is to say nothing if the horrible damage that is cause by a NATO round hitting flesh at 1 km/sec.<br /><br /> You speak as someone who has never experienced war but is looking to blame the side you hope loses.Ray Pellandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12052112663991555064noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21959449.post-12661742043495442842014-05-23T23:13:47.067+03:002014-05-23T23:13:47.067+03:00Except that if a rubber projectile wasn't in t...Except that if a rubber projectile wasn't in the barrel extender, and a live round was in the breach, it would have fired in the same way as normal. The blank rounds used as a propellant in m4 variants (not m16 as you have pointed out) are the same caliber as the standard (nato) live round used by Israeli soldiers. <br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com