Hello, i am Gabby, also known as The6thMessenger, although i am a writer facinated by sci-fi, i write my stories governed by a solid structure of acceptable physics, and minor bits of theoretical ideas branching from an established fact.
I've always been fascinated with anything that fires or explodes, much like a gun, but funny how i hate killing or destroying stuffs, i think i just love how the physics works.
This idea, i got it when the Mythbusters wanted to blow a gas-cylinder in a single shot.
Viral Flame – Armor Piercing Incendiary Injector
1.) Ballistic tip – balled tip for the projectile
2.) Penetrator – A super-hard metal with hooks
3.) Soft Metal – Softer metal that holds the penetrator
4.) Place-holder – allows the soft metal to bend open.
5.) Hardened/Crystallized incendiary mix or Flammable Zirconium Pellet – a solidified incendiary mix, made of zirconium
6.) Secondary incediary mix – easily ignited, ignites the primary incendiary mix, maybe even explosive.
7.) Blasting Cap – Ignites the flammable mix
8.) Heavily weighted end – even heavier than the rest of the body.
9.) Free-floating pin – strikes the blasting cap with the sudden stop of the entire bullet.
The entire shell is cut in three-sections, allowing the entire shell to open up.
Although 007 James Bond used a .22 LR as the myth dictates, this bullet is advisable for .357 Magnum, .44 Magnum, .454 Casull, .460 S&W Magnum... or basically anything large and high-speed.
Basically it goes like this; After leaving the barrel, the shell will disengage, showing the Penetrator.
On hit, the penetrator will slightly penetrate the target, but the hook will snag but the back will still move forward due to inertia of the weight, forcing the three sections to open and make the hole bigger. As the projectile fully opens up, the incendiary mix will ignite because of the free-floating pin violently hitting the blasting cap, igniting the Incendiary Pellet and is thrown inside the target, it has to be a non-penetrating hard object so it stays in the gas cylinder.
Should the bullet fails to open, the free-floating pin will still hit the cap upon stop, and ignite the mixture, forcing the bullet to still open up and ignite the pellet.
Bottomline; it "Injects" a slow-burning pellet inside the body without exiting it, or an explosive round should the bullet failed to open. Think of it like a hollow-point bullet that expands upon impact, but instead it penetrates slightly and then expand, and then deliver the payload, i got the idea from a Jellyfish sting or Nematocytes.
Why i have posted this in here is to share the idea, so it might be proved or disproved one day.