Armor Piercing Discarding Sabot

Early giat promo explaining the design and function of armor piercing fin stabilized discarding sabot ammunition along with some slow motion impacts of tungsten cored 120mm apfsds versus. Refer to the two apfsds armor piercing fin stabilized discarding sabot pictures on the right to see the substantial material nature of a sabot to fill the bore diameter around the sub caliber arrow type flight projectile compared to the very small gap sealed by a driving band or obturator to mitigate what is known classically as windage.

Kinetic Energy Penetrator Sabot Armor Piercing Shell

Airsoft Apdsfs Armor Piercing Discarding Sabot Fin

20mm Mk149 Apds Armor Piercing Discarding Sabot

An important armor piercing development was the apds or the armor piercing discarding sabot.

Armor piercing discarding sabot.

Compatible with the navys phalanx anti ship missile defense system and the m61 and m197 gun systems.
An early version was developed by engineers working for the french edgar brandt company and was fielded in two calibers 75 mm57 mm for the mle189733 75 mm anti tank cannon.
As an armament for main battle tanks it succeeds armour piercing discarding sabot apds ammunition which is still used in small or medium caliber weapon systems.

The round is specifically modeled for the 120mm m256 main gun on the abrams m1a1 and m1a2 main battle tanks.
The m829 is an american armor piercing fin stabilized discarding sabot tank roundmodeling was designed at the ballistic research laboratory brl at aberdeen proving ground apg which was incorporated into the army research laboratory arl in 1992.
The 20mm mk149 armor piercing discarding sabot cartridge provides a significant anti armor capability with optimized ballistic performance and short time of flight to target.

Armour piercing fin stabilized discarding sabot apfsds is a type of kinetic energy penetrator ammunition used to attack modern vehicle armour.
Apds rounds are sabot rounds firing a spin stabilized armor penetrating sub projectile and were commonly used in large calibre tank guns up until the early 1980s but have now been superseded by armour piercing fin stabilized discarding sabot apfsds.
Armour piercing discarding sabot apds is a type of kinetic energy projectile fired from a rifled barrel gun to attack armoured targets.

Holes by russian sagger anti tank missile and an armor piercing shell duration.
Apds rounds are sabot rounds and were commonly used in large calibre tank guns but have now been superseded by armour piercing fin stabilized discarding sabot apfsds.
Experimental discarding sabot dart filmed in high speed 6000 frames per second apfsds slow motion.

Armour piercing discarding sabot apds is a type of kinetic energy projectile fired from a gun to attack armoured targets.

25mm Tungsten Apfsds T Armor Piercing Fin Stabilized

Fapds Frangible Armour Piercing Discarding Sabot