Huge Demand for Rifle Cartridges Industry

A cartridge is a type of preassembled firearms ammunition that packs a projectile (ball, buckshot, or bullet), a propellant (usually either smokeless powder or black powder), and an igniting device (primer) in a metallic paper, or plastic case made exactly as it is is that it fits into the barrel chamber of a breech-loading pistol, for the practical purpose of convenient transportation and handling during firing. Although the term "bullet" is often used informally in common usage to refer to a complete cartridge, it is more correctly used to refer to the projectile only.

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Some of the key players of Rifle Cartridges Industry:

Olin Corporation, RUAG International Holding AG, FN HERSTAL, Nammo AS, Nexter, BAE Systems, General Dynamics Corporation, CBC Global Ammunition, Poongsan Corporation, Remington Ammunition

Cartridges can be categorized by the type of primer they contain - a small charge of a shock- or electrically-sensitive chemical mixture located: in the center of the case head (center fire); in the rim (rimfire); inside the walls on the cup-shaped fold of the case back (cauldron fire, now obsolete); in a lateral projection shaped like a pen (pen fire, now obsolete); or a lip (Lipfire, now obsolete); or in a small nipple-like bulge on the caseback (teat fire, now obsolete). Only the centerfire and rimfire survived to mainstream use today.

Military and commercial manufacturers continue to pursue the goal of caseless ammunition. Some artillery ammunition uses the same cartridge concept as in small arms. In other cases, the artillery shell is separate from the propellant charge. A cartridge without a projectile is called a blank; one that is completely inert (contains no active primer and no propellant) is called a dummy; one who did not ignite and fire the projectile is called a dud; and one that has ignited but has not pushed the projectile out of the barrel sufficiently is called a squib.