The 2A46 can fire armour-piercing fin-stabilised discarding sabot ( APFSDS ), high-explosive anti-tank ( HEAT ) and high-explosive fragmentation ( HEF ) projectiles.
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In 1964, soviet designers started to work on an improved 3UBM6 hyper-velocity armour-piercing discarding sabot round ( as opposed to APHE rounds the D-10 used before ).
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This cannon could fire Armor-Piercing Incendiary ( API ), High-Explosive Incendiary ( HEI ) and Armor-Piercing Fin Stabilized Discarding Sabot Tracer ( APFSDS-T ) rounds.
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Comparative testing of British Ordnance QF 17 pounder APCBC rounds fired into captured German Panther tanks indicated the APCBC munitions were more accurate than late war armour-piercing discarding sabot ( APDS ) shot.
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It fires a 15.2?69mm armor-piercing, fin-stabilized discarding sabot round ( 207 mm long ), and is the first man-portable rifle to use this type of ammunition.
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It might be possible to accelerate it to 800 mph with a discarding sabot and high pressure air in a long tube, such as Mythbusters used to accelerate frozen chickens to smash into airplane windshields.
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The turret of the BMD-4 contains a total of 500 rounds ready to be used by its autocannon with 245 of them being high explosive and the remaining being armor-piercing discarding sabot.
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However, by using discarding sabots, many such guns fire projectiles which are much smaller than the gun bore; so the relationship of projectile size to barrel length is not as straightforward as with older ordnance.
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It is armed with a dual feeding caseless 30mm cannon with high explosive and armour piercing discarding sabot ammunition, 38'Skyfire'80mm unguided rockets, and eight'Skalpel'anti-tank guided missiles.
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The Bradley is equipped with the M242 Armor-Piercing Fin Stabilized Discarding Sabot with Tracer ) round, which contains a finned depleted-uranium penetrator similar in concept to armor-piercing munitions used in modern tanks.
