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2. Sabot (firearms) - Wikipedia

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   The sabot component in projectile design is the relatively thin, tough and deformable seal known as a driving band or obturation ring needed to trap propellant gases behind a projectile, and also keep the projectile centered in the barrel, when the outer shell of the projectile is only slightly smaller in diameter than the caliber of the barrel ...

3. M829 - Wikipedia

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   The M829A3 is only used for training with a switched plastic sabot round. this is calculated from the 100-millimeter (3.9 in) steel tip adjoined to a 630-millimeter (24.8 in) DU body that is 25-millimeter (0.98 in) thick at 1550m/s (5085 fps) with a target RHA BHN of 250. The sabot is of composite material.

4. .45 ACP - Wikipedia

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   Caliber .45 shot M15 was an improved survival round loaded with 108 pieces of No. 7 1 ⁄ 2 birdshot, with wadding and a vermilion cardboard disc sealing the casemouth. It was loaded and extracted exactly like the M12 shot cartridge. Caliber .45 tracer M26 (T30) has a red tip. The round was designed as a short-ranged red flare for use in ...

5. Cartridge (firearms) - Wikipedia

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   .45 ACP: The standard US pistol round for about 75 years. Typical .45 ACP loads are subsonic. [54].45 Colt: a more powerful 45-calibre revolver round using a longer cartridge. The .45 Colt was designed for the Colt Single Action Army and adopted by the US Army in 1873. Other 45-calibre single-action and double-action revolvers also use this round.

6. Springfield model 1873 - Wikipedia

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   According to the US Army Ordnance Department tests, the 45-70-405 was loaded to 19,000 psi, [4] while the 45-70-500 was loaded to 25,000 psi [2] The average accuracy of the Springfield Model 1873 was a circle with an average radius of 1.7 inches at 100 yards, corresponding to an ~3.4 MOA.

7. Sub-caliber ammunition - Wikipedia

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   Sub-caliber armour-piercing discarding sabot projectile. Here seen with and without its sabot as well as its internal tungsten core. The most traditional way to fire sub-caliber ammunition is to fit the projectile with an expendable sabot. The sabot is a device which fills out the missing caliber when the projectile is fired and then leaves the ...