Why did the Bongs continue to use cordite long after literally everyone else switched to smokeless powder?

Because they had tens of millions of rounds loaded and probably hundreds of millions of tons of it in warehouses (they used it in all their artillery and naval guns as well). What did you expect them to do, toss it?

Certainly not the US, we'd switched to smokeless well before even .30-03 came about. Probably someone like Egypt.

because they had a shit ton of it stashed and didn't want to waste it. Even though the benefits of smokeless powder were significant, they weren't great enough to justify the cost of switching over and just tossing all of their stockpiled ammo in the bin

>tossing it in a bin
Why wouldn't they sel.. oh, that's right, Brits have a slave mentality and most of them are hoplophobic.

>why didn't/doesn't adopt

because is/was good enough

>85 million people
It isn't 66 million?

Nani? So in the UK they handled their ammo with explosive cord into the brass casing? Do they just stuff it in as cut sections like OP’s pic or do they wind it up?

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Had a mate who lost an eye to this sorta thing. Do the right thing, and bin it, or contact your local constabulary.

brits are dumb shits when it comes to firearms design,always have been,always will.

Not if you count the white people.

>everyone else switched to smokeless powder
That a common misconception, OP. Circa the Second World War, the Italians used cordite in the production of 6.5mm cartridges. This is commonly overlooked in small arms research, as in Italian, cordite is known as “exploghetti”

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Google "cordite", nerd. It's like dry spaghetti but it explodes.

>66 million bongs
Does not count the non-Bongs and illegals living there without citizenship.

kek

>Walk into the Somme
>Spaghetti falls out of my enfield

>exploghetti

There are literally TWO results on the entirety of google for that word. One is your post.

>Why did the Bongs continue to use cordite long after literally everyone else switched to smokeless powder?
Cordite is smokeless powder in filament form.

>joke
>your head

He's saying that it is an original joke

Because Cordite is versatile and doubles as rations for the troops. Little known fact is that Cordite is non-toxic and edible, and when soaked in hot water for 10 minutes is an instant meal for the troops. Is it the most tasty meal? No, and according to British Field Marshall Lord Allenbrook who sampled some prepared Cordite as requested by Winston Churchill who vehemently despised the taste stated the following.
>Upon first tasting I was utterly disgusted by the sour, metallic taste of the substance. Despite my best efforts to mask the flavour with copious amounts of salt as well as the accompanying pasty, there was no hiding the metallic twinge to the Cordite. On this I was in agreement with Churchill - I would not subject my men to such a vile concoction.

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This is a great joke.

I thought you were full of shit. But then I found it ...

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wouldnt you have a heart attack if you ate a sizeable amount

Thank you Satan. Cordite. The only food you can shoot out of your gun, and out your ass. Cordite.

Never change Jow Forums. Never change.

Good one dude.

what the fuck does really short spaghetti have to do with guns you absolute fucking retard

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It also apparently causes visual hallucinations and a deep, but nightmare ridden sleep.
How many men in the trenches you think ate it, just so the constant barrages didn't wake them? Think the cordite dreams were any worse than what the war had already done to them?

I have British and Canadian military .30-06 cartridges which are loaded with cordite. Kynoch even produced cordite .30-40 Krag on contract for the US Army.

On the far right is the headstamp of the aforementioned Kynoch .30-40 cartridges. As was customary in British military cartridges of the 1890's and early 1900's, the 'C' indicates cordite propellant. Nitrocellulose propellant (once it was approved for use in the midst of WWI) was indicated with a 'Z' in the headstamp.

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The navy used cordite in their guns, I guess it was easier to just make one propellant rather than two or three. But the British, especially of the time, were neophobic. Innovation was the domain of fringe wierdos and outdated ideas and objects would be hung on to for longer than was practical.

I love Lee Enfields but I can't say I like .303, and I hate cordite.

Because they loved yhe forbidden spaghetti

That's figging. It's different than sounding.

My sides

Lol

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In a book called With British Snipers to the Reich the author, a rifle lover and sniper, said that they (he and other snipers of the time) always tried to get American made .303 to use in their rifles. It's been a while since I read it but I recall that ammo being nitrocel powder loaded to usual specification (MkVII and maybe MkVIII as well). Apparently it was higher quality, being more consistent in dimensions and possibly charge weight as well as batch to batch.

>C headstamp
I guess they only did that on 'foriegn' calibers or contract ammo, I've never seen it on British .303. Although the earliest round I have is MkVI.

What in the sam hell? I guess the tide-pods thing is generational.

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How the fuck did those retards find out you can get high from sucking on cordite? Goddamn, people will put anything in their mouth.

>how the fuck did
>soldiers
Anything is possible.

He was praising his post you dense nigger.

Nitroglycerine highs had been widely known before cordite showed up.

This. If soldiers can't break something, they will eat it, or lose it. Nothing survives contact with large groups soldiers.

Frederick Forsyth had his protagonist in Day of the Jackal eat some to feign illness when he was getting past checkpoints as a wounded soldier.

i got nothin googling it

no it fucking doesn't. the census counts everyone

That's not quite true. Only the very best things, the absolutely bomproof, can survive them. Thus we may know the truly godly pieces of equipment.

Sure, equipment can be made soldier-proof. Bomb-proof. Maybe even idiot-proof.

But nothing, and I stress, NOTHING, can be made conscript-proof.

damn, when you think WW1 couldn't get any worse, there's always a little nugget of knowledge waiting for you to turn it even more into a shitshow.

M2 browning.

youtu.be/dXn3AV9vBro

M2 is undamaged.

Topkekmate

That's cordite? Thought it was broken spaghetti noodles.

Man it would suck to be this much of a smoothbrain

>A) a reason to improve their gear, B) the free resources to do so and C) no one standing in the way, politically speaking.
All those criteria were met thanks to the vast colonial network bongland had at the time.

*Everyone who participates

Little does everyone know, cordite is italy's secert to explosive flavor. Just remember to cook it down.