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


