M1A1 fires a APFSDS-T discarding sabot "anti-tank" shell, with the"sabots" seen peeling away shortly after the 120mm shell leaves the barrel. Thesmaller, 12 pound, 40mm penetrator thus travels at a ...
DULLES, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Orbital ATK, Inc. (NYSE: OA), a global leader in aerospace and defense technologies, announced today that the M829E4 Advanced Kinetic Energy 120mm tactical tank cartridge ...
The 120mm M829 depleted uranium shell packs a wallop when shot by the Abrams. Nicknamed the “Silver Bullet,” during Operation Desert Storm, the M829 dominated the battlefield and took out numerous ...
It was named one of Time magazine’s best inventions of 2008, but Raytheon’s Active Protection System (APS), formerly known as "Quick Kill," was nowhere to be found on the floor of the Washington ...
China recently revealed the world’s most powerful armor-piercing 120mm/125mm canon Jeffrey Lin and P.W. Singer report over at Popular Science. According to the 127th Ordinance Institute of the Central ...
KNDS's Nexter announced in a press release on 29 February that it had qualified its Shard 120 mm armour-piercing fin-stabilised discarding sabot (APFSDS) tank ammunition in late 2023 and that it is ...
The US State Department has made a determination approving a potential foreign military sale of M831A1 rounds, M865 rounds and Armor-Piercing Fin-Stabilised Discarding Sabot with Tracer (APFSDS-T) ...
The company was commissioned to provide qualification samples of the new ammunition to the German Defence Forces and the British Army. Rheinmetall has completed the development of its latest update of ...
M1A1 fires a APFSDS-T discarding sabot "anti-tank" shell, with the"sabots" seen peeling away shortly after the 120mm shell leaves the barrel. Thesmaller, 12 pound, 40mm penetrator thus travels at a ...