speed of a bullet?

Answer 1

Depends on the cartidge and the load. But basically on average:

Rimfire= 1200 feet per second/ 818 miles per hour
Shotshell= 1500 fps/ 1022 mph
Centerfire= 2000 fps/ 1363mph - 3000fps/ 2045 mph

Answer 2

Q. What is the highest velocity firearm?

A. The answer to that question depends upon whether we are talking about practical firearms or laboratory curiosities.

The theoretical maximum velocity attainable from normal commercial propellant powder and "conventional" loading densities is limited by the maximum velocity of expanding powder gases. Under ideal conditions this is stated as somewhere between 5700 f/s and 6000 f/s , and in conventional small arms between 4000-5000 f/s, by most authorities.

Even under ideal laboratory conditions the maximum velocity attainable with standard propellant powders is limited by two factors: 1) A substantial portion of the energy derived from the burning powder is used up in accelerating the mass of gas behind the projectile, and 2) regardless of the amount of powder used energy transfer to the projectile can take place only at velocities that are less than the escape velocity of the propellant gases. Since the bullet cannot travel faster than the gases pushing it this sets a velocity ceiling. While raising pressures by burning huge amounts of powder can achieve some spectacular velocities there comes a point of diminishing returns, because most of the additional energy must be used to accelerate the greater mass of propellant gases produced.

Aberdeen Proving Ground reached close to 9000 f/s using a .60 cal smooth bore gun and using 720 gr (!!) of IMR 4895 and a 113 gr projectile and they believed that the theoretical maximum velocity would be about 10,000 f/s. The all time record for a conventional solid propellant gun (as opposed to light gas guns, etc.) is believed to be held by the people at the Canadian Armament Research and Development Establishment (CARDE). In the early 1960s they used an 81.3mm smoothbore gun with a 95 caliber length barrel to reach the blistering muzzle velocity of 9154 f/s but I don't have any information on the projectile or the type of powder used. (A velocity of 9153 feet per second was supposedly achieved in 1938 by a German experimenter named Langweiler, firing a special 8 mm round using a 1 meter (39") barrel. The bullet weighed about 3.8 gr and the propelling charge was 170 gr of an unspecified powder designed to give a larger burning surface to the grains. The maximum pressure in the gun was listed as 176,500 psi." The reported velocity is generally considered suspect due to the limitations of the powder gas velocities and to the primitive velocity recording done via a ballistic pendulum.)

Answer 3

You have to give a better clue than that. Without the superman answer is best.

What caliber, rifle or pistol bullet grain type and weight. Powder charge?

Answer 4

From 900 feet per second for pistol rounds to somewhere around 3400 fps for high-velocity rifle rounds. The new Ruger .204 (which is a team effort with Hornady) fires at 4,000 feet per second.

Answer 5

Depends of the bullet. 2000 feet per second is not unreasonable.

Answer 6

It depends on the explosive force behind it, its mass and
its shape and how much friction it causes as it travels through
whatever medium the bullet was shot through.

In short: Depends.

Answer 7

Depends on the type of bullet, type of weapon, humidity, temp, etc...

Answer 8

Superman!!

Answer 9

Try watching CSI on TV, they quote it in nearly every episode. Gets rather tedious after a while.

Answer 10

Well that depends... 600 feet-per-second to 4,000+ feet-per-second.

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