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Frontier Performance Polymers

Lightweight Ammunitions

 

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Today's soldiers carry up to 105 pounds of mission essential equipment into combat to increase their effectiveness. This weight overload causes fatigue, heat stress, and injury. More importantly the weight a soldier has to carry has reduced the soldier's mobility and survivability. 

Frontier has collaborated with ARDEC engineers to develop an innovative solution to overcome the deficiencies of the conventional polymer cased ammunitions. Frontier’s innovative lightweight small arms cartridge case design can deliver the following benefits over other competing lightweight case designs:

  • Achieve 30% weight savings
  • Load and assemble on existing production lines
  • Superior resistance to case cracking and splitting
  • Function reliably in all environment
  • Potential 15% cost-saving
  • Better long-term reliability
  • Improved reliability in sandy regions
  • Better resistance to cook-off

The success of Frontier's innovative lightweight small arms ammunition development will accomplish Army’s mission to lighten soldier’s load, and improve lethality, reliability and survivability of current weapon systems.