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Seacadet> It's APFSDS-T not APDS-FS.[\quote]
RE- Jack> The common term for family of those type rounds are APDS-FS. The term you have given is the offical US Army designation (ie usually proceeded by alphabetical and number name)
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Jack> Finally, while the APDS-FS round for the M1A1 Abrams may not have a fragmenting effect on the end of its "arrow" other nations and US manufactures (ie Israel) developed them for their tungsten based APDS-FS rounds. Reason being against older tanks and with side shots they had over penetration and they wanted more effect behind the armor similar to the older solid AP rounds that has a small burst charge in the tail.
SeaCadet> Its a flechette("Arrow"). The US Has a few tungsten penetrator rounds i.e. HEAT. The reason tungsten is use s because it one of the softest metas yet one of the hardest to melt. HEAT rounds use a shaped charge with a tungsten penetrator because the charge explodes and "burns" through the armor.
| RE-Jack> You are joking? Seriously you have to be joking????????
Jack E. Hammond
| I have never heard anyone refer to a APFSDS-T as a APDS-FS.
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