The M829 round has an electric primer, propellant, sabot projectile ... Depleted uranium rounds do appear to give the M1 Abrams tank an advantage in armored warfare, and they will probably ...

The primary Armor-Piercing Fin-Stabilized Discarding Sabot round of the Abrams tank is the depleted uranium M829 round. The Abrams tank can also fire High-Explosive Anti-Tank warhead charge rounds ...

Abrams. The tank weighed in at 55.7 tons ... the American-developed Armor-Piercing Fin-Stabilized Discarding-Sabot (APFSDS) round. These leverage a depleted uranium alloy rod that can penetrate ...

A recent video from FUNKER530 shows POV footage of M1A1 Abrams tanks firing from their main ... piercing fin-stabilized discarding-sabot' (APFSDS) round inside the main gun. APFSDS rounds do ...

The M1A1 Abrams main battle tank is the final vehicular ... The other is a HEAT round. The APFSDS stands for "armor piercing fin stabilized discarding sabot," also known as a long rod penetrator ...

PICATINNY ARSENAL, N.J. (April 21, 2014) -- The U.S. Army fired the first of a new fifth-generation tank ... sabot, with tracer cartridge," Santiago wrote in describing the round.

A jogger out for an afternoon run in Pennsylvania happened upon a surprise: a tank-killing "sabot" round likely from a M1 Abrams tank. The anti-tank round was turned over to local police ...

Smearman said, “To be out there doing what we’re doing, to be able to set forward the future of (M1) Abrams ... tanks, we’re going to battle carry SABOT, our tank defeating round ...

Problem is, the main gun on an Abrams tank can’t reach sufficient elevation ... got a glimpse of the XM360 popping off a practice sabot round from a firing platform. That platform has fired ...