plazmaalapu

Plazma Lapua is a Finnish military rifle cartridge designed to fire a 7.62 x 51 mm bullet at supersonic velocities. It was created in the early 1990s by the Finnish company Lapua, in conjunction with the Finnish Defence Forces.

The Plazma Lapua cartridge is essentially a.260 Remington case shortened to 1.904 inches in length. It was designed to take advantage of the long range and high accuracy characteristics of the.260 Remington, which only slightly exceeds the original 7.62 x 51 mm cartridge.

However, it should be noted that the Finns never officially adopted the Plazma Lapua as a standard issue rifle cartridge for military use. The name "Plazma" in the designations possibly references speed and energy. In the end it became merely an experimental design.

The cartridge saw relatively limited use by Finnish special police units, it wasn't adapted to conventional military needs. There isn't much information about use of Plazma Lapua rounds or the operational results.

Today, Lapua still manufactures cartridges for recreational and competitive shooting applications, with a concentrate on making military-style weapons stocked by NATO alike forces around the world.