Brass is copper zinc, and copper is too valuable to be used as a like ammo especially with prices so high.
QBZ-191 service rifle family
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Are there soft steel alloys that perform as well as brass?
Well enough to not cause problem is not "as well as brass" but performs fine.
Brass has several properties, soft and malleable and resistant to deterioration.
Steel competes by using mild, soft steel, then either by coating it with lacquer or plating it with copper. With proper ammo geometry(both 7.62 and 5.8 are very tapered) you resolve the extraction "problem" (which only seems to happens to ARs anyway).
TerraN_EmpirE
Tyrant King
And the conversation since falls into my point. Farther M855 is the American Itteration of ss109. Which again dates to the 1980s.
which was then replaced by M855LF and today M855A1 Which is one of a Dozen US military iterations of 5.56x45mm some optimized for better performance at range like Mk262 mod 1. These US military iteration being among dozens of NATO iterations and that’s not even trying to figure out the huge potential of commercial variations.
