dumdum

[′dəm‚dəm]

(ordnance)

A bullet that flattens excessively on contact, or one especially designed to flatten excessively.

The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Dumdum

an exploding bullet with a cross-like incision or cavity in the head. These bullets were first used by the British Army in the Boer War of 1899-1902. They inflict severe wounds in which the exit opening is considerably larger than the entry opening. The bullet was named for the suburb of Dum Dum in Calcutta, India, where the cartridge factory that made the bullets for the British was located. Several armies, not including the Russian and Soviet armies, perfected mushrooming bullets and used them in World Wars I and II.

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