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From: Colin Campbell <colinc@linkline.com>
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Subject: Re: 125mm tank guns vs 120mm
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On 10 Apr 2002 12:56:30 -0700, Psl@interchange.ubc.ca (Paul Lakowski)
wrote:
>The original projectiles lost V due to the fact that they where steel
>and had poor windscreen designs [ too short] as much as the diameter
>issue ...also don't ignor the fact that the fins on SOV APFSDS , until
>BM-32, had be the diameter of the gun in order to support the
>projectile as it accelerates down the barrel.
>Those fins should creat hugh drag.
None of the Soviet APFSDS ammo I got to handle had fins this big. The
rounds were supported by the sabot only.
"With Confidence in our Armed Forces -
with the determination of our people -
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so help us god."
Franklin Delano Roseveldt, 8 december 1941
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