You don’t need a physics degree to know that a football has better flight characteristics than a basketball, but with bullets the differences are much more subtle. Ballistic coefficient is just ...

Bullets in flight are subject to nature’s forces. Through the decades, manufacturers have developed bullets to somewhat counteract the effects of wind, gravity and atmospheric drag with a streamlined ...

It means they also have to account for factors like wind speed, direction, distance, and in some cases, even the curvature of the earth, making sure the bullet's flight path doesn't get altered ...

Capturing a bullet in flight usually requires a high-speed camera and, as Harrigan explained, "catching a bullet on a side trajectory as seen in that photo would be a one in a million shot".