Armour-piercing ammunition
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Armour-piercing ammunition is a type of projectile designed to penetrate armour, including naval armour, vehicle armour, and body armour.
Steel plates penetrated in tests by naval artillery, 1867
British naval 15-inch (381 mm) capped armour-piercing high explosive shell with ballistic cap (APHECBC), 1943
German Armour-Piercing, Composite Non-Rigid projectile
French armour-piercing, fin-stabilized, discarding sabot projectile
Kinetic energy penetrator
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A kinetic energy penetrator, also known as long-rod penetrator, is a type of ammunition designed to penetrate vehicle armour using a flechette-like, high-sectional density projectile. Like a bullet or
Armour-piercing ammunition
…armour-piercing solid-shot projectile Lower right: Diagram of capped armour-piercing shell: • 1. – Ballistic cap or armour-piercing cap • 2. – Steel alloy kinetic energy penetrator • 3. – Desensitized high explosive bursting charge • 4. – Base-fuse (set with delay to explode inside the target) • 5. – Bourrelet (front) and driving…
A partly cut-away 30 × 173 mm APFSDS-T round