kinetic energy penetrator

The missile used a kinetic energy penetrator to penetrate enemy armor.

The Trophy development plan includes an enhanced countermeasure unit to be available in the future for protection against kinetic energy penetrators.

Sabots are used to fire the flechettes that form anti-armour kinetic energy penetrators.

Depleted uranium (U) is used in kinetic energy penetrators and armor plating.

The most used sub-caliber rounds are flechettes and Kinetic energy penetrator tank shells.

A concept warhead using kinetic energy penetrators for counter-airfield operations never materialized.

See also Kinetic energy penetrator.

It is not public knowledge whether this is supposed to function against both kinetic energy penetrators and shaped charge jets, or only the latter.

Large flechettes are used as kinetic energy penetrators in many gun-fired anti-armour projectiles.

This includes tungsten-based kinetic energy penetrators, which do not have the same political and environmental objections as depleted uranium rounds.

A kinetic energy penetrator will also be subjected to powerful sideways forces, which might be large enough to cut the rod into two or more pieces.

The Martlet 2G utilized a sabot system very similar to modern antitank kinetic energy penetrators.

Depleted uranium was used in the war in tank kinetic energy penetrators and 20-30 mm cannon ordnance.

Interface defeat is when a ceramic armour system, typically on an armoured fighting vehicle, defeats a kinetic energy penetrator at the ceramic's front surface.

This includes a series of kinetic energy penetrators, such as the American M829 series, and chemical energy anti-tank warheads.

The introduction of the longer barrel came hand in hand with the introduction of a new kinetic energy penetrator, the DM53.

Kinetic energy penetrator rounds consist of a long, relatively thin penetrator surrounded by a discarding sabot.

Staballoys are approximately 1.67 times as dense as lead and are designed for use in kinetic energy penetrator armor-piercing ammunition.

British rifled tanks have been limited to two ammunition types: a kinetic energy penetrator and HESH.

In military applications, rods of amorphous metals are considered as a replacement of depleted uranium in kinetic energy penetrators.

This armor maximizes the armor depth that a kinetic energy penetrator must travel through to enter the internal volume of the turret.

Among projectiles which do not contain explosives are those launched from railguns, coilguns, and mass drivers, as well as kinetic energy penetrators.

Other warhead types include submunitions, incendiaries, nuclear weapons, chemical, biological or radiological weapons or kinetic energy penetrators.

These detect target vehicles, such as tanks, armored personnel carriers, trucks and other support vehicles, and fire a kinetic energy penetrator downwards at them.

A kinetic energy penetrator, if it can defeat the armor, generally causes spalling within the target as well, which helps to destroy/disable the vehicle and/or its crew.