Type Private | Industry Firearms | |
Founded June 18, 2012; 4 years ago (2012-06-18) Headquarters Delray Beach, Florida, U.S. | ||
Red Army Standard Ammunition is a trademark associated with Century International Arms (CIA), an arms and ammunition corporation in Delray Beach, Florida, United States. The official spelling of the brand's name is faux Cyrillic, written as RЭD АRMY STAИDARD. The company supplies various sizes of cartridges for designs of firearms, such as the AKM and AK-47 rifles and the Makarov PM pistol, originating from Russia and former Soviet (Eastern Bloc) countries. Cartridges are made in various countries, including Ukraine, Romania, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Poland. One manufacturer of RAS cartridges is Lugansk Cartridge Works, in Lugansk, Ukraine and its headstamp code is the letters "LU". Another factory is the IGMAN d.d. Konjic cartridge plant in the city of Konjic, in Igman, Bosnia and Herzegovina and its newer headstamp is the letters "IK", while the older headstamp consists of the Cyrillic letters "ИК".
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Ammunition products
Technical details
Known ballistics of R.A.S. ammunition products are below. Some figures are calculated from inputs of other figures such as the energy measured in foot-pounds (ft-lbf). OAL stands for Overall Length.
Data for a Red Army Standard 9×18mm Makarov cartridge, labeled as 94 grain FMJ:
Data for a Red Army Standard 7.62×39mm cartridge with a steel case, labeled as 123 grain FMJ:
Data for a Red Army Standard 7.62×39mm ELITE cartridge with a brass case and copper-lead bullet, labeled as 123 grain FMJ ELITE:
Data for a Red Army Standard 5.45×39mm cartridge with a steel case, labeled as 69 grain FMJ:
Data for a Red Army Standard 7.62×25mm Tokarev cartridge with a steel case, labeled as 86 grain FMJ: