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Wound ballistics is the sub-domain of terminal ballistics that addresses the behaviour and effects of a bullet in a person or an animal. In this book, we shall divide wound ballistics into three areas: handgun bullets, bullets from long weapons and fragments. The logic behind this is that there are fundamental differences between the three types of projectiles in terms of form, structure and energy. These differences affect their behaviour in the target and the formation of the wound channel.
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Kneubuehl, B.P. (2022). General wound ballistics. In: Kneubuehl, B.P. (eds) Wound Ballistics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-64855-1_3
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