The standard tungsten antiarmor round for the M60 tank, the M735, could penetrate 350 millimeters, or 13.7 inches, of steel rolled homogenous armor (RHA), the standard measurement for armored ...

The Air Force A-10 Warthog attack jet’s GAU-8 Avenger cannon is even more terrifying when it shoots this ammunition.

"Tungsten makes very good bullets," the military analyst Robert Kelley tells me. "It is the kind of thing that if you fire it at someone else's armour, it will go right through it and kill it." ...

120mm anti-tank rounds, use tungsten as an alternative to DU in training. So do the 25mm anti-tank rounds, on board the M2/M3 Bradley fighting vehicle. Armor-pirecing .308 M993 rifle rounds.

Depleted uranium (DU) has been used for decades in anti-tank shells because its ultra-dense. But DU has been a controversial, possibly toxic, method for piercing armor -- blamed by some for so ...

DU rounds usually have a suffix of 1 (e.g., 3BM59 “Svinets-1”), and tungsten rounds will have a suffix of 2 ... Also a latecomer to the tank ammunition scene, ...

The armor piercing element of discarding sabot rounds is less than half the diameter of the shell and made of very expensive, high density metal. Its smaller size enables it to hit the target at very ...

The U.S. Army is acquiring a new multipurpose tank round which can flatten bunkers, pulverize obstacles, breach concrete walls or take out groups of personnel. And it can destroy armored and ...

Later developments in anti-tank rounds included the use of dense metals such as tungsten or depleted uranium to pierce through tank armor, like the penetrator used in a Sabot round.

The 120mm EKE will reportedly be used in the Challenger 3 main battle tank, and supports its modernisation programme, which is currently getting ready to enter service in 2025. Rheinmetall’s current ...

APDS rounds resemble giant darts and are fired from tank barrels at tremendous velocities. In the case of the M865, the round exits a tank barrel at 5,510 feet per second—faster than a mile per ...

"Tungsten makes very good bullets," the military analyst Robert Kelley tells me. "It is the kind of thing that if you fire it at someone else's armour, it will go right through it and kill it." ...