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homunculus:
we already have explosive rounds in rl, our ufo:ai weapon specialists are probably well aware of this (i do not consider myself a weapons specialist).
afaik it's just normal explosives, nothing fancy, and that's at least ww2.
and also bullets that change to nasty shapes on impact are, afaik, ww2.
both are somewhat forbidden nowadays.
afaik, nerve gas is also somewhat forbidden.

so, if we wanted freezing or some other type of fancy bullets, would those be more effective than the explosive rounds we already have from ww2?

i think some hardening polymer might be more effective for capturing live aliens than stun rod, but stun rod is more exciting.

for close combat, i would suggest a heavy hammer.
no armor can totally protect against such concussion power.

Prinegon:
As I can see you refer to soft point bullets (dum dum cardige), that was common even before the second world war to the end of the imperialistic aera, and the "watching cardige" ("Beobachtungsmunition"), bullets covered with a sulphur mantle, that ignite on impact and got used in the second world war from both the germans and the russian.

The soft point bullet has a weak structure on purpose, so that the impact will cause the structure to crack up and the bullet to deformate easily, giving a high chance the bullet to stay inside the designined target and causing a greater exit wound if leaving the victim. Since theese kind of ammunition is used in police service in quite some states, I don't think this ammo is forbidden by humanity rights (according to http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teilmantelgeschoss (in german)).

The phosphor bullet, however, is not an explosive bullet on itself but more of an igniting bullet. Its purpose was a training purpose. Since the phospor would ignite hitting a target producing smoke, it would be easier to see, if a sharp shooter would have hit a designied target in training. The cardige also could be used to willingly ignite material in battle. However it came to know that the ignition of the bullet would produce high accelerated gases causing great damage to the body, if a target was hit in the stomach eg.

Both kind of ammunition would probably be very affective against no armor. Used against heavy armor the first kind of bullet would be very uneffective, since it was build to deformate easily on impact, the second kind wouldn't have a higher perforate chance than a standard bullet, since the posphor mantle ignites and doesn't explode. The bullets created in this thread were especially designed to take its effect the moment after the heavy armor is perfored, since the kinetic energy caused by the perforation is needed to activate the cracking up of the bullet. 

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