Found this on talk.politics.guns of all places:
One of the former Soviet-block allies is exporting something called the
"Strike-Force" bullet intended for law-enforcement, but not restricted, yet.
Apparently, the bullet has a "fluted jacket" design that allows the jacket
to "peel" off the bullet (similar to the Black Talon) as the center portion
of the projectile (heaviest "harder-lead" portion) continues into the target.
Thus, you have several razor-sharp "slivers" peeling off in different
directions while the main portion of the bullet (which is a patented alloy,
with "unique physical properties that allow unequaled penetration", according
to the manufacturer) does the most damage.
This is almost exactly the way the gauss rilfe ammo in Classic Traveller
was supposed to act. A soft hollow point jacket with an interior heavy metal
penetrator.
I've been thinking on how to model them but so far I've only reached
a conclusion for 3G3 and not FF&S: The bullet is treated as a combination
of normal hollowpoint and saboted round, it has in effect two concurrent
DV's. One is the straight DV from the bullet, it behaves like a hollowpoint
DV, ie 0.7 before armour and 1.5 or whatever behind armour.
In addition there is the DV from the penetrator, this is computer as if
the penetrator was a ds penetrator (sg18 probably) and the rest of the
bullet a sabot with sg11. Divide the energy between these two components.
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