Black Shark vs Sabot

[McDaniel]

:music_whistling:

title says it all!!!

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYrVPsZyi20

[Frazer]

Hehe pretty damn cool :thumbup:

[Krippz]

Gotta love the awesome job that ED has done with the damage model.

Edited April 2, 2010 by Krippz

[Schnarre Aggro]

Gotta love the awesome job that ED has done with the flight model.

 

forwarding that !!! ;-)

[DetroitDieseL]

Hooah!!

[beers]

Clarification please, I understand the sabot to refer to the casing around a shell/bullet/projectile that makes a snug fit around the projectile as it moves through the barrel, but that the sabot is dropped from the projectile as it leaves the barrel. I know that the forum's standards of "queen's english" are loose, but we oughta be clear about military tech terms. Is wikipedia off on this word too?

[Moa]

sabot is French for 'shoe'. It allows a sub-caliber munition to be fired from a weapon of larger bore. The energy usually in the full bore round is instead imparted to the smaller projectile. Gives it a lot of kinetic energy (despite the losses to the sabot) and less air resistance (smaller aerodynamic cross-section). If the sub-caliber projectile it also very dense (eg. depleted uranium or tungsten) then the momentum is great and has very good penetrating power.

[Moa]

Thanks for the cool video McDaniel. Also found this one (Warthog, not BS)

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rduAoViiarw&feature=related

[graywo1fg]

Thats from lockon flaming cliffs, not DCS A10 ;) the A10C has more LCD displays :P that triple head 2 go is awesome!

[McDaniel]

Clarification please, I understand the sabot to refer to the casing around a shell/bullet/projectile that makes a snug fit around the projectile as it moves through the barrel, but that the sabot is dropped from the projectile as it leaves the barrel. I know that the forum's standards of "queen's english" are loose, but we oughta be clear about military tech terms. Is wikipedia off on this word too?

 

You are right.....but we used it all the time when you call for ammunition change in a tank, like: "load heat" or "load Sabot" that is why I call it sabot.:smartass:

[DetroitDieseL]

It is called a sabot round, its the APFSDS-T ( Armor Piercing Fin Stabilized Deiscarding Sabot ).

 

I had loaded them when I was a loader on an M1A1, in 1.4 sec. They are about 37 pounds if memory serves me right.

 

And yes its called that because of the "shoes" that guide it out of the gun tube. Falling down to the ground up to a Km away from position fired. We use to have to go collect them to be recycled at gunnery, But, those were training rounds with training projectiles that were not (classified material). In the battlefield those same shoes are radioactive.

Edited April 4, 2010 by DetroitDieseL