APDSFS bullet - APDSFS bullet
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…The structure of a smoothbore gun is the same as that of modern artillery, except for the smoothbore barrel. The reason smoothbore guns came to be widely used as guns for tanks was to fire armor-piercing wing-stabilized sabot (APDSFS) rounds. APDSFS rounds are very long and slender bullets that use arrow-shaped wings to stabilize their trajectory, so it became necessary to fire them from a smoothbore barrel. … *Some of the terminology used to refer to "APDSFS bullets" is listed below. Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information |
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…滑腔砲の構造は，滑腔砲身を除き，現用の火砲と同じである。戦車用の火砲として滑腔砲が多用される契機となったのは，翼安定式装弾筒付徹甲弾(APDSFS弾)を発射するためである。APDSFS弾は，矢状の翼で弾道を安定する方法をとっている非常に細長い弾丸であるために，滑腔砲身で発射する必要が生じた。… ※「APDSFS 弾」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。 出典｜株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第２版について | 情報 |
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