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The Five-seveN is a full-sized pistol, 8.2 inches long, with a 4.8-inch barrel and 20-round, double-stacked magazine standard, although it weighs only 1.6 pounds fully loaded, due to its polymer construction. This terminal performance is far better than that of M882 9mm NATO ball ammunition, and actual rivals many 9mm jacketed hollowpoint loads. 85-inch projectile length), to create a temporary wound cavity averaging about 3.5 inches. In bare-gelatin testing, it typically penetrates 11 to 13.5 inches, or 9.85 inches after passing through a Level II ballistic vest, consistently tumbling (with a. This round is capable of penetrating 48 layers of ballistic, Kevlar material (equivalent to two stacked, Level II vests) at a range of 110 yards, and penetrating a PASGT ballistic helmet at 260 yards, or a PASGT ballistic vest at 330 yards. The result was the FN P90 in 5.7x28mm in 1990, followed by a companion handgun, the FN Five-seveN, eight years later.īoth weapons fire the SS190 military duty ammunition, a 31-grain, aluminum-core, steel-penetrator, full-metal-jacket (FMJ) projectile at a muzzle velocity of 2,133 feet per second from the Five-seveN, and 313 foot-pounds of muzzle energy. In 1989, NATO sought a personal-protection, replacement ammunition for the 9x19mm Parabellum round, with two new weapons to fire it, a PDW and a pistol, having greater range, accuracy, and terminal performance than the standard, 9mm cartridge. The basic concept behind the design is quite simple. Bonham, author, historian, and pilot, 2018įabrique Nationale Herstal (FNH, or “National Factory Herstal”) in Herstal, Belgium, produces the distinctive, top-quality, and very-expensive, Five-seveN (note the capital “F” and “N,” the company initials) semiautomatic handgun in 5.7x28mm (.224-caliber), a special, small-caliber, bottleneck cartridge designed in 1990 for the still-futuristic, FN P90 personal-defense weapon (PDW), and this unique pistol has been quite controversial since its release in 1998, because it’s capable of firing the armor-piercing, SS190 penetrator round, even though that particular ammunition has always been restricted to military and police use only, and was never available to civilians. More hits mean a greater chance (that) one, or more, bullets will find vital organs.” “Current research indicates there is no distinct advantage based on a particular handgun cartridge.the deciding factors are magazine capacity and lower recoil, which allows a shooter to put more rounds on target in a shorter time period.