As it turns out, Blackwater is not just launching a new ammo company based in Europe, but in doing so they are bringing some much-needed innovation to a market sector that for decades has been going with the same “recipe”.
Blackwater founder Erik Prince and Nicola Bandini team up and are venturing into small arms ammo. One area in particular which is identified for a revamp is the 50 cal market, which has faced significant problems of inertia when it comes to product improvement.
It’s taken one hundred years to modify something that was originally designed to be an anti-tank round, or to spray the battlefield with a thousand rounds and hit with ten, but it’s now supposed to be the standard for a sniper to hit with at two miles. It simply can’t happen with the ammo as produced today. The fifty can be a two-mile cartridge, the way we cook it, not the way it’s currently done … BW’s case [neck] is one-hundredth of a millimeter off-center because it’s turned on a lathe.
Besides the .50 they also make 9MM, 45, 12 gauge – they actually have a proper Dragunov offering, a 12.7×108 Dushka round. Nobody’s working on making a DShK round more accurate and everyone in the ammunition world knows how hard it is to get either 50 cal ball or DShK ammo because of the amount of small wars being fought in various places.
visit: www.blackwaterammo.com
