You don't know what stopping power is, do you?
5.56 has a thin jacket and a deep cannelure; the opposite of 7.62 soviet. It fragments violently above ~2400 FPS. 7.62 soviet will only distort if it hits a hard target. Have you ever seen ballistic gel hits from either? 5.56 is devastating to soft targets at close/medium range compared to 7.62x39, which just yaws and goes straight through.
Muzzle energy != soft tissue damage. Expansion does.
O rly?
yes fragmenting and tumbling CAN happen, it doesnt allways
yes fragmenting and tumbling CAN cause verry fatal wounds to vital organs
yes fragmenting and tumbling CAN have a greater effect than a 7.62x39
but those are all CAN's
its not like a 5.56 would desintegrate into 10000 fragments that rip throught the whole body and pulverize the whole target
in most cases the 7.62 has way more stoppingpower than a 5.56 especially at close range
remember we are talking about the typical killing floor ranges, and those are 50 -100 meters at maximum
and typically a heavy round doesnt rely on fragmentation or tumbling
see .30-06, .308, 8mm mauser, 8x33, ect ect ect
those rounds rely on brute force to know something down, and this isnt a problem for full sized rounds, but the intermediate rounds that rely in this principe lack the stoppingpower and accuracy at long rannge (starting at around 300m upwards)
yes i have seen balistig gel tests, even for exactly the ammunition we are talking about, in fact i probably know more about firearms than you do, so PLEASE stop treating anyone who answers to your half-knowlege posts as if they were some forum kids, who dont know jack about weapons
i know its hard, from whatever game you come from, you probably are right with that attitude, as 99% of the ppl posting about stuff like this in a game like CS dont even know what a rifling is, but it certainly is wrong here
as allready mentioned this is the former RO Forum