Jeff Siewert

And the effect of that is what you see over on the right-hand side.

There was a cartridge case separation during what they call function and casualty testing.

OK.

And function and casualty is just a basic, you know, you put 100 rounds in a belt, you fire through the machine gun, did the machine gun fire all 100 rounds with no troubles?

If the answer is yes, you ship it.

It's not the only test that gets done, but you have to pass that test in order to accept the law.

OK.

And in this particular instance.

The hardness profile was incorrect, and they failed a lot.

Oops.

Those are expensive failures because there's lots of ammo.

No, no, no.

This is the as-made hardness profile.

So what they did was they basically took cartridge cases, they sectioned them longitudinally, they prepared them in...

And an epoxy matrix polished them and did micro hardness checks along the case wall going from the base to the case mouth.

Okay.

Really sharp, abrupt knee in the curve that you see for the red line.

Um, a couple of tenths of an inch back is, is kind of what they found.

And like, like, no kidding.

You know, you, you've got the, the hardness profile is, is meets the drawing, but it's not correct because you failed the function.