Citation

Mahoney PF, Carr DJ, Delaney RJ, Gibb IE. Int. J. Legal Med. 2019; ePub(ePub): ePub.

Affiliation

Joint Hospital Group (South) c/o Sickbay, HMS Nelson, Queen Street, Portsmouth, PO1 3HH, UK.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/s00414-019-02170-6

PMID

31696311

Abstract

A synthetic head model developed to reproduce military injuries was assessed in two different scenarios involving shooting through intermediate targets (a laminated vehicle windscreen in scenario 1 and a military helicopter windscreen in scenario 2) with 7.62 × 39-mm mild steel core (MSC) ammunition. The injury patterns resulting from the two scenarios were assessed by a military radiologist and a forensic pathologist with combat injury experience and found to be clinically realistic.

Language: en

Keywords

7.62 × 39 mm MSC ammunition; Aviation helmet; Ballistic head injury; Window shooting