East German 5.56x45mm NATO SS109 round

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Time for a pretty cool round

This is a East German 5.56 nato round. It may seem odd why a NATO standard round would be made in communist East German but there is a good reason for this!

88 - year of manufacturing
04 - factory code - Mechanische Werkstätten Königswartha

Green tip denotes it’s a SS109 Semi-Armor-Piercing cartridge with a steel penetrator

Of course it still has the Warsaw Pact standard of a steel case rather than a brass case

Now back to why this round exists/ it was developed for a East German export rifle the Weiger STG940, I am leaving the wiki link for those interested

Wieger StG-940 - Wikipedia