A kinetic energy penetrator (KEP), also known as long-rod penetrator (LRP), is a type of ammunition designed to penetrate vehicle armour using a flechette-like...

discarding sabot (APFSDS), long dart penetrator, or simply dart ammunition is a type of kinetic energy penetrator ammunition used to attack modern vehicle...

physics, the kinetic energy of an object is the form of energy that it possesses due to its motion. In classical mechanics, the kinetic energy of a non-rotating...

Velocity: Mach 6.5 (7,260 ft/s; 2,210 m/s) Warhead: Kinetic energy penetrator Penetrator energy: 10 megajoules (2.4 kilograms of TNT) October 2003 –...

Ted Nugent Penetrator (video game), a 1982 Sinclair ZX video game Penetrator (play), a 1993 play by Anthony Neilson Kinetic energy penetrator, an anti-tank...

American armor-piercing fin-stabilized discarding sabot (APFSDS) kinetic energy penetrator tank round. Modeling was done at the Ballistic Research Laboratory...

to validate the requirement, one for a kinetic energy penetrator round (MRM-KE) and one for a chemical energy high-explosive anti-tank (HEAT) warhead...

anywhere between 0.4% and 25% the speed of light. Concrete bomb Kinetic energy penetrator Cobalt bomb Prompt Global Strike Railgun Boeing X-37 Brilliant...

such as a bullet/slug or a flechette-like projectile (such as a kinetic energy penetrator), and keep it aligned in the center of the barrel when fired....

other metals, usually titanium or molybdenum, designed for use in kinetic energy penetrator armor-piercing munitions. One formulation has a composition of...

equipped with spall liners inside their armour for protection. A kinetic energy penetrator, if it can defeat the armour, generally causes spalling within...

self-sharpening penetrator, was during the release ceremony of K1A1 prototype in 1996. The United States developed its own kinetic energy penetrator (KEP) tank...

A kinetic energy weapon (also known as kinetic weapon, kinetic energy warhead, kinetic warhead, kinetic projectile, kinetic kill vehicle) is a projectile...

allowing the penetrator to continue towards the target with high velocity. Due to its high muzzle velocity and dense tungsten penetrator, the KE-W APFSDS...

warhead like other anti-tank missiles, LOSAT employed a solid steel kinetic energy penetrator to punch through armor. The LOSAT is fairly light; it was designed...

two most common anti-armour projectiles in use today: HEAT and kinetic energy penetrator. Defeating HEAT projectiles can occur by damaging or detonating...

Ruger, all the way to 1,700 m/s (5,600 ft/s) for tank guns firing kinetic energy penetrator ammunition. To simulate orbital debris impacts on spacecraft,...

exhibiting a severe speech disorder Kinetic energy penetrator or KE penetrator, a type of ammunition designed to penetrate vehicle armour Elimination rate...

Parsch, Andreas (2006). "Textron (Avco) BLU-106/B BKEP (Boosted Kinetic Energy Penetrator)". Directory of U.S. Military Rockets and Missiles fitted with...

countermeasures may lead to: disturbance of the stability of a kinetic energy penetrator which will decrease its penetration ability as the deflection...

engine and the introduction of a new OFL 105 F1 fin-stabilized kinetic energy penetrator. Production of the AMX-30 also extended to a number of variants...

Target Adaptive Unitary and Dispenser Robotic Ubiquity System/Kinetic Energy Penetrator and Destroyer.[citation needed] Janes (21 November 2023), "Taurus...

are high-velocity, large-caliber artilleries capable of firing kinetic energy penetrators, high-explosive anti-tank, and cannon-launched guided projectiles...

that Ukraine's military does not use shells with flechettes. Kinetic energy penetrator "Peace group slams sale of Swedish 'meat grinder' ammunition"...

minute. The gun employs four types of cartridges. The M900A1 kinetic energy penetrator to destroy armored vehicles; the M456A2 high explosive anti-tank...

especially modern tanks, against shaped charges and hardened kinetic energy penetrators. The most common type is explosive reactive armour (ERA), but...

United States Army to produce the kinetic energy subsystem (see: kinetic projectiles or kinetic energy penetrator) of the Objective Individual Combat...

rapidly when the explosive detonates. This forces an incoming kinetic energy penetrator or shaped charge jet to cut through more armour than the thickness...

against kinetic energy penetrators as well as shaped charge munitions; heavy metals are sometimes included specifically for protection from kinetic energy penetrators...

Challenger 2, M1A1 and M1A2 Abrams. Kinetic energy penetrator rounds consist of a long, relatively thin penetrator surrounded by a discarding sabot. Staballoys...