Armor Piercing "ied" destroyers
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Uploaded by ballisticsukltd on May 29, 2010
An armor-piercing shell is a type of ammunition designed to penetrate armor. From the 1860s to 1950s, a major application of armor-piercing projectiles was to defeat the thick armor carried on many warships. From the 1920s onwards, armor-piercing weapons were required for anti-tank missions.
An armor-piercing shell must withstand the shock of punching through armor plating. Shells designed for this purpose have a greatly strengthened case with a specially hardened and shaped nose, and a much smaller bursting charge. Some smaller-caliber AP shells have an inert filling, or incendiary charge in place of the HE bursting charge. The AP shell is now little used in naval warfare, as modern warships have little or no armor protection, but it remains the preferred round in tank warfare, as it has a greater "first-hit kill" probability than a high explosive anti-tank (HEAT) round, especially against a target with composite armor, and because of higher muzzle velocity, is also more accurate than a HEAT round.
Armor-piercing cartridges are also available as small arms ammunition, primarily for use as an anti-matériel round or to defeat body armor.
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Why are the top 2 comments the same.
2 months ago 8
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@R5H4D0W Steel core bullets became known as AP not to say they pierce vehicle armor but body armor. Hence why we switched from the 55 gr M193 FMJ (aka the little bullet that made the big hole) to the 62 gr M855/SS109 FMJBT. In the late 70s and the 80s, we became less worried about damaging our target and more worried about the body armor they were clad with.
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0.20 caran d'ache
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5 months ago 31
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@AreThereNoMoreNames do you play MW2 cause the only other place i heard the term FMJ is MW2
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