.224 Boz

.224 BOZ

Type

Handgun

Place of origin

United Kingdom

Production history

Designed

1990s

Manufacturer

Civil Defence Supply - UK

Specifications

Parent case

9x19mm Parabellum (originally 10mm Auto)

Ballistic performance

Bullet weight/type	Velocity	Energy
50 gr (3 g)

The .224 BOZ cartridge was developed in the late 1990s with the purpose of defeating body armour.^[1] The .224 BOZ began as a 10mm Auto case necked down to .223. Original trials were successful, with this round firing a 50 gr projectile chronographed at over 2,500 ft/s (760 m/s).^[2] Worldwide patents were applied for and granted.

In early 1999 .224 BOZ was fired in modified 10mm MP5 and 10mm Glock taking part in a head to head trial at DERA Fort Halstead (UK Defence Testing Establishment) against the NATO CRISAT specification target of layered titanium and Kevlar armour. These trials favourably compared the .224 BOZ against the 5.7 FN P90 and the HK MP7. The .224 BOZ was also shown at the Shot Shows 1999 and 2000, but the concept was solely to be made available for anti-terrorist and special forces use, not civilian use.

In 2010 work restarted on re-working .224 BOZ into a 9x19mm necked case to .223 and with a partnership with a leading ballistics engineer a new range of projectiles have been created. Despite decreasing the cartridge case volume velocities in excess of 2,200 ft/s (670 m/s) have been achieved .

References

↑ ".224 BOZ Ammunition and Weapons Programme". Civil Defense Supply. Archived from the original on 2005-04-04. Retrieved 10 October 2013.
↑ Guns & Ammo, November 1998, p64

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Cartridges derived from the .30 Remington and its derivatives

First generation derivatives	10mm Auto 6.8 mm Remington SPC

Second generation derivatives (based on 10mm Auto)	.40 S&W 9×25mm Dillon 9×25mm Super Auto G .224 Boz

Third generation derivatives (based on .40 S&W)	.357 SIG

Cartridges derived from the 7.65×25mm Borchardt or its derivatives

First generation derivatives

Second generation derivatives

Based on 7.63×25mm Mauser	7.62×25mm Tokarev 9×25mm Mauser

Based on 7.65×21mm Parabellum	9×19mm Parabellum

Third generation derivatives (based on 9×19mm Parabellum)

Modern personal defense weapons (PDWs) and cartridges

Personal defense weapons	AO-46 AAC Honey Badger PDW ČZW-438 Floro PDW FN P90 Heckler & Koch MP7 Interdynamics MKR Knight's Armament Company PDW Magpul PDR MARS Interdynamics MKS Modern Sub Machine Carbine PP-2000 QCW-05 Saab Bofors Dynamics CBJ-MS SR-2 Veresk ST Kinetics CPW VBR-Belgium PDW

PDW-caliber pistols	FN Five-seven Glock-VBR 7.92 pistol SR-1 Vector Heckler & Koch UCP Pindad PS-01 QSW-06 QSZ-92 VBR-Belgium CQBW GSh-18

PDW cartridges	.224 Boz 4.38×30mm Libra 4.5×26mm MKR HK 4.6×30mm 5.56×21mm PINDAD 5.56×30mm MARS 5.56×30mm MINSAS FN 5.7×28mm 5.8×21mm DAP92 6×35mm KAC 6.5×25 CBJ-MS 7.92×24mm 9×19 mm 7N31 9×21mm Gyurza 9×39mm

.224 Boz

See also

References