The Matildas had 40 mm Ordnance QF 2 pounder guns, which only fired armour piercing rounds not effective anti-personnel weapons . ( High explosive rounds in small calibres were considered impractical ).
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In addition to normal tank gun ammunition and air burst shells with mechanical time-delay fuse, semi-armour piercing shells from Riga class frigates ( Finnish Navy had two such ships ) were available.
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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 most common types are the armour piercing fin-stabilised discarding sabot ( calibres long instead of the 44 calibres common on most tanks of the Leclerc's generation, giving the rounds a higher muzzle velocity.
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The F4 90mm could fire Armour Piercing Fin Stabilised Discarding Sabot rounds ( APFSDS ) at a much higher velocity than the Lynx's F1 90mm; GIAT and Panhard both claimed it could penetrate heavy armour at 2000 metres.
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The 17 pounder mounted on the Achilles was able to penetrate some 140 mm of armour at and 131 mm at using standard Armour Piercing, Capped, Ballistic Capped ( APCBC ) ammunition impacting at a 30-degree angle.
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The 105 mm rifled gun, fires armour piercing fin stabilised discarding sabot ( APFSDS ), high explosive ( HE ), and high-explosive anti-tank ( HEAT ) ammunitions, with 45 rounds carried inside the vehicle.
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Eventually 6-pounder ( 57mm ) guns were put into the British tanks, and these could deal with pretty much anything but head on attacks on the German Tiger and Panther tanks-thanks to their special armour piercing rounds.
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Projectile types include high explosive incendiary, high explosive incendiary tracer, armour piercing high explosive, armour piercing incendiary, armour piercing incendiary tracer, chaff expelling ( countermeasure projectile ), flare expelling ( countermeasure projectile ) and target practice types.
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Projectile types include high explosive incendiary, high explosive incendiary tracer, armour piercing high explosive, armour piercing incendiary, armour piercing incendiary tracer, chaff expelling ( countermeasure projectile ), flare expelling ( countermeasure projectile ) and target practice types.
