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    Armour-piercing ammunition Armour-piercing ammunition (AP) is a type of projectile designed to penetrate armour protection, most often including naval...
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  • Armour-piercing, capped, ballistic capped (APCBC) is a type of configuration for armour-piercing ammunition introduced in the 1930s to improve the armour-piercing...
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    Semi-armour-piercing (SAP) Semi-armour-piercing high-explosive (SAPHE) Semi-armour-piercing high-explosive incendiary (SAPHEI) Semi-armour-piercing high-explosive...
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    small or medium calibers, such as in saboted light armour penetrator (SLAP) ammunition. Armour piercing discarding sabot munitions were developed to increase...
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    Armour-piercing fin-stabilized discarding sabot (APFSDS), long dart penetrator, or simply dart ammunition is a type of kinetic energy penetrator ammunition...
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    are typically of the armour-piercing fin-stabilized discarding sabot (APFSDS) type. Early cannons fired kinetic energy ammunition, initially consisting...
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    has left the barrel. Diagram of the sabot method Armour-piercing discarding sabot (APDS) Armour-piercing fin-stabilized discarding sabot (APFSDS) Saboted...
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    is prohibited: Tracer; incendiary; armour piercing; armour piercing incendiary (API); depleted uranium; ammunition containing any igniferous or explosive...
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    T-72 (section Armour)
    which incorporates a French thermal imager). Depleted uranium armour-piercing ammunition for the 125 mm (4.9 in) gun has been manufactured in Russia in...
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  • that armour blocks were of sufficient strength to render medium-calibre projectile (up to 25mm conventional or 20mm tungsten armour-piercing ammunition (AP)...
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    long-range concrete-piercing shells. The usual complement of ammunition was 13 high-explosive and 7 armour-piercing or concrete-piercing. The armor penetration...
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  • inorganic compound Ap and Bp stars AP site, a location in DNA or RNA Armour-piercing ammunition All Purpose, a common grade of wheat flour Ap (water), a Vedic...
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    metal. In 1986 United States law initially defined armor-piercing bullets to exempt rifle ammunition: A projectile or projectile core which may be used in...
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    the RN-94 is all-welded steel armour structure which provides maximum protection against 7.62 mm armour-piercing ammunition and shell splinters all round...
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    of ammunition were developed such as high-explosive anti-tank (HEAT) warheads and armour-piercing discarding sabot (APDS), including armour-piercing fin-stabilized...
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    with additional side armor tiles, which can resist .50 caliber armour-piercing ammunition perpendicularly at close ranges. They give the BMP-3 added side...
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    SR-3 Vikhr (category Weapons and ammunition introduced in 1995)
    9×39mm subsonic cartridge. It is primarily used with the SP-6 armour piercing ammunition with a hardened steel penetrator, that can penetrate a 6mm steel...
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    projectiles have been used, high-explosive anti-tank (HEAT) and armour-piercing ammunition (APHE), the latter being 5.2 kg heavier and with a lower muzzle...
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    constructed of several rolled steel armour plates. The armour provides protection against 14.5 mm armour-piercing ammunition fired from distances of 500 meters...
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    armour is intended to counteract anti-tank munitions that work by piercing the armour and then either killing the crew inside, disabling vital mechanical...
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    previously been stated that Boxer's baseline armour is all-round resistant to 14.5 mm armour-piercing ammunition in accordance with STANAG 4569 Level 4. To...
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    Vickers 40 mm Class S gun (category Weapons and ammunition introduced in 1942)
    autocannon, all firing armour-piercing ammunition.[page needed] The Rolls-Royce "BF" was initially selected, although it used drum-fed ammunition rather than the...
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    TR-85 (section Armour)
    sensor, laser rangefinder and night vision), new 100 mm BM-412 Sg armour-piercing fin-stabilized discarding sabot (APFSDS-T) projectiles and a fully...
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    its wearer due to the loss of speed or small/reduced mass/form. Armour piercing ammunition tends to have poor terminal ballistics due to it being specifically...
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    7 kg). The 30.7 kg armour-piercing ammunition could be fired at 1050 m/s, and penetrated 280mm of vertical steel at 1000m. APDS ammunition (8.7 kg in weight)...
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    with a maximum armour thickness of 20 mm on the hull front. Each Ratel hull is protected against 7.62×39mm armour-piercing ammunition at any angle; it...
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    two different types of both high explosive ammunition and armour-piercing ammunition. More than one ammunition type may be loaded at once and fired alternatively...
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    when saboted ammunition is used as the sabot tends to break up inside the brake. The problem is particularly pronounced when armour-piercing fin-stabilized...
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    The public appearance of the K276 armour-piercing fin-stabilized discarding sabot (APFSDS), the first 120 mm ammunition with self-sharpening penetrator...
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    Insensitive Munition (IM). The multipurpose warhead has a combined armour-piercing ammunition with enhanced behind armor anti-personnel and incendiary effects...
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