M2 Bradley APFSDS-T | How it works?

2024/01/31 に公開
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The M2 Bradley is equipped with a 25 mm M242 Bushmaster chain gun which has a firing rate of 200 rounds per minute. A wide range of ammunition has been developed for this weapon. The depleted uranium M 919 APFSDS was designed for penetrating light armored vehicles.

With a similar structure to the known APFSDS rounds, it has a penetrator of length 110mm and aluminum sabot. The M919 leaves the barrel with a muzzle velocity of 1,420 meter per second. The core is composed of a depleted uranium with an aluminum windscreen at the front and stabilized with a steel fin.

HEI rounds, like M792, are preferred against main battle tanks for mobility kills, it turns out that a direct hit to a turret ring may cause a hydraulic failure making the turret spinning as reported recently in Ukraine.