The .224 Boz cartridge was developed in the late 1990s, designed as a candidate replacement cartridge for adoption as the standardized NATO ("
STANAG
In NATO, a standardization agreement (STANAG, redundantly: STANAG agreement) defines processes, procedures, terms, and conditions for common military or technical procedures or equipment between the member countries of the alliance. Each NATO st ...
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Personal defense weapon
Personal defense weapons (PDWs) are a class of compact, magazine-fed automatic firearms that are typically submachine guns designed to fire rifle-like cartridges. Most PDWs fire a small-caliber (generally less than in bullet diameter), high-velo ...
PDW round, originally solicited to replace the longstanding NATO standard (STANAG)
9×19mm Parabellum
The 9×19mm Parabellum (also known as 9mm Luger, 9mm NATO or simply 9mm) is a Rim (firearms)#Rimless, rimless, Centerfire ammunition, centerfire, tapered cartridge (firearms), firearms cartridge.
Originally designed by Austrian firearm designer ...
. It was going to be the British entry, to be evaluated alongside the Belgian
FN 5.7×28mm
The FN 5.7×28mm (designated as the 5.7×28 by the C.I.P. and FN 5.7×28mm NATO) is a small-caliber, high-velocity, smokeless-powder, rebated, non-tapered, bottleneck, centerfire cartridge designed for pistols and personal defense weapons ( ...
and the German
HK 4.6×30mm
The 4.6×30mm (designated as the 4,6 × 30 by the C.I.P.) cartridge is a small-caliber, high-muzzle velocity, velocity, smokeless powder, Rim (firearms)#Rebated rim, rebated, Cartridge (firearms), bottleneck, centerfire cartridge (firearms), cartr ...
armor-piercing cartridges. The solicitation would also seek to find, test and standardize a PDW cartridge capable of, at the minimum, defeating the Collaborative Research Into Small Arms Technology (CRISAT) body armour of the time.
Design
The .224 Boz began as a 10mm Auto case necked down to . Original trials were successful, with this round firing a projectile chronographed at over .
[''Guns & Ammo'', November 1998, p. 64] During development a version based upon the 9×19 Parabellum case was also evaluated, which carried the significant advantage of being able to be utilized in pre-existing NATO standard 9×19 Parabellum caliber firearms by means of a relatively cheap barrel and caliber swap.
The
.22 TCM takes advantage of this same concept in its sub-variant, the .22 TCM 9R.
See also
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.22 TCM
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.22 Spitfire
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HK 4.6×30mm
The 4.6×30mm (designated as the 4,6 × 30 by the C.I.P.) cartridge is a small-caliber, high-muzzle velocity, velocity, smokeless powder, Rim (firearms)#Rebated rim, rebated, Cartridge (firearms), bottleneck, centerfire cartridge (firearms), cartr ...
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5.7×28mm
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Table of handgun and rifle cartridges
This is a table of selected pistol/submachine gun and rifle/machine gun cartridges by common name. Data values are the highest found for the cartridge, and might not occur in the same load (e.g. the highest muzzle energy might not be in the same ...
References
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224 Boz
4 (four) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 3 and preceding 5. It is a square number, the smallest semiprime and composite number, and is considered unlucky in many East Asian cultures.
Evolution of the Hi ...
224 Boz
4 (four) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 3 and preceding 5. It is a square number, the smallest semiprime and composite number, and is considered unlucky in many East Asian cultures.
Evolution of the Hi ...