• Thumbnail for Armour-piercing fin-stabilized discarding sabot
    Armour-piercing fin-stabilized discarding sabot (APFSDS), long dart penetrator, or simply dart ammunition is a type of kinetic energy penetrator ammunition...
    17 KB (1,985 words) - 03:53, 18 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Armour-piercing ammunition
    effectively double the anti-tank performance of a gun. Armour-piercing fin-stabilized discarding sabot (APFSDS) in English nomenclature, alternatively called...
    41 KB (5,313 words) - 21:20, 28 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Kinetic energy penetrator
    target. Modern KEP munitions are typically of the armour-piercing fin-stabilized discarding sabot (APFSDS) type. Early cannons fired kinetic energy ammunition...
    9 KB (1,111 words) - 19:49, 18 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Armour-piercing discarding sabot
    Armor-piercing discarding sabot (APDS) is a type of spin-stabilized kinetic energy projectile for anti-armor warfare. Each projectile consists of a sub-caliber...
    13 KB (1,510 words) - 21:42, 31 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sabot (firearms)
    (Armor-piercing discarding sabot) and APFSDS (Armor-piercing fin-stabilized discarding sabot) ammunition. Seminal research on two important sabot configurations...
    15 KB (1,911 words) - 00:14, 17 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for 120×570mm NATO
    Retrieved 19 August 2023. "120mm M829A3 APFSDS-T Armor Piercing Fin Stabilized Discarding Sabot w/Tracer" (PDF). fbcinc.com. Northrop Grumman. Archived...
    79 KB (3,162 words) - 16:49, 15 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Chobham armour
    as rubber, between two armour plates. The impact of either a shaped charge jet or armour-piercing fin-stabilized discarding sabot (APFSDS) kinetic energy...
    36 KB (4,887 words) - 10:27, 19 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Shell (projectile)
    known as Armour-Piercing Super-Velocity (APSV) - fired from a tapering barrel Armour-piercing discarding sabot (APDS) Armour-piercing fin-stabilized discarding...
    64 KB (8,535 words) - 18:08, 20 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for TR-85
    TR-85 (section Armour)
    rangefinder and night vision), new 100 mm BM-412 Sg armour-piercing fin-stabilized discarding sabot (APFSDS-T) projectiles and a fully redesigned suspension...
    35 KB (4,060 words) - 09:09, 27 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Panther KF51
    Rheinmetall's 120 mm tank guns. The Rh-130 can fire armour-piercing fin-stabilized discarding sabot (APFSDS) ammunition, programmable air burst high-explosive...
    20 KB (2,075 words) - 22:00, 16 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Arjun (tank)
    Arjun (tank) (section Armour)
    120 mm rifled main gun with indigenously developed armour-piercing fin-stabilized discarding-sabot ammunition, one PKT 7.62 mm coaxial machine gun and...
    74 KB (6,514 words) - 19:28, 22 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sloped armour
    the sixties however long-rod penetrators, such as armour-piercing fin-stabilized discarding sabot rounds, were introduced, projectiles that are both...
    20 KB (2,808 words) - 06:12, 7 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rheinmetall Rh-120
    unspecified nations. The public appearance of the K276 armour-piercing fin-stabilized discarding sabot (APFSDS), the first 120 mm ammunition with self-sharpening...
    57 KB (5,949 words) - 15:59, 15 December 2024
  • incoming anti-tank munitions. It can reportedly intercept armour-piercing fin-stabilized discarding sabot kinetic energy penetrators in addition to high-explosive...
    8 KB (751 words) - 13:27, 13 November 2024
  • (HEAT) rounds and is known to defeat armour-piercing fin-stabilized discarding sabot (APFSDS). This armour is lightweight and compact. A new honeycomb...
    4 KB (488 words) - 14:19, 13 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for MBT-80
    tankers. Moreover, the armour package had been designed to defeat either the 115 mm firing armour-piercing fin-stabilized discarding sabot (APFSDS) or 125 mm...
    26 KB (3,371 words) - 00:52, 15 August 2024
  • Obiekt 187 (section Armour)
    the tank gun, new depleted uranium-cored sub-caliber armour-piercing fin-stabilized discarding sabot (APFSDS) rounds were developed named Anker-1 and Anker-2...
    13 KB (1,630 words) - 05:45, 28 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for 105×617mmR
    for increased armour penetration.[citation needed] Also has a greater fragmentation effect. L51 HEAT-T  Italy Simmel Difesa fin-stabilized 22.1 kg 10.25 kg...
    42 KB (1,369 words) - 12:08, 17 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sub-caliber ammunition
    Diagram of the sabot method Armour-piercing discarding sabot (APDS) Armour-piercing fin-stabilized discarding sabot (APFSDS) Saboted light armor penetrator...
    4 KB (387 words) - 16:53, 26 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for High Survivability Test Vehicle (Lightweight)
    XM274 75 mm CTA autocannon with 2-axis stabilization capable of firing Armour-piercing fin-stabilized discarding sabot and high-explosive. Secondary armament...
    9 KB (906 words) - 20:40, 15 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Leopard 2
    (4.9 in) armour-piercing fin-stabilized discarding sabot (APFSDS) rounds fired from a distance of 1,500 m (4,900 ft). The Leopard 2A4's armour has a maximum...
    307 KB (28,851 words) - 02:27, 23 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Type 63 (tank)
    of firing all types of modern tank rounds, such as armour piercing fin-stabilized discarding sabot (APFSDS), HEAT and HE. The turret was modified to accommodate...
    31 KB (3,720 words) - 18:39, 17 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for T-72
    T-72 (section Armour)
    International Defence Review 7/1997, pg. 15 "M829E3 120mm Armour-Piercing Fin-Stabilized Discarding Sabot- Tracer (APFSDS-T) Cartridge" (PDF). Archived (PDF)...
    109 KB (11,968 words) - 03:44, 23 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ammunition
    anti-tank (HEAT) warheads and armour-piercing discarding sabot (APDS), including armour-piercing fin-stabilized discarding sabot (APFSDS) rounds. The development...
    20 KB (2,605 words) - 00:37, 24 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for D-10 tank gun
    3UBM11 antitank rounds were introduced, with 3BM25 armour-piercing fin-stabilized discarding-sabot (APFSDS) tungsten carbide penetrator, which increased...
    13 KB (1,360 words) - 11:51, 28 June 2023
  • Thumbnail for Afganit
    anti-tank munitions. The system can reportedly intercept armour-piercing fin-stabilized discarding sabot kinetic energy penetrators in addition to high-explosive...
    4 KB (298 words) - 04:01, 6 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Type 74
    (Armour-Piercing Discarding Sabot) and HEP (High Explosive Plastic) as its primary ammunition. Later it was modified to fire APFSDS (Armour-Piercing Fin-Stabilized...
    14 KB (1,510 words) - 09:43, 31 August 2024
  • Soviet T-54/T-55 tanks, protected inadequately against armour-piercing fin-stabilized discarding sabot (APFSDS) and high-explosive anti-tank (HEAT) ammunition...
    8 KB (981 words) - 09:30, 30 April 2023
  • Thumbnail for T-55AGM
    a barrel length of 6 m (48 calibers) and can fire armour-piercing fin-stabilized discarding sabot (APFSDS), high-explosive anti-tank (HEAT), and high...
    6 KB (574 words) - 10:42, 9 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for High-explosive squash head
    using smoothbore guns due to the usage of powerful armour-piercing fin-stabilized discarding sabot, which would significantly decrease the rifled gun's...
    11 KB (1,301 words) - 08:17, 2 November 2024