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    Sabot ammunition A sabot (UK: /sæˈboʊ, ˈsæboʊ/, US: /ˈseɪboʊ/) is a supportive device used in firearm/artillery ammunitions to fit/patch around a projectile...
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  • Look up sabot in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Sabot may refer to: Sabot (firearms), disposable supportive device used in gunpowder ammunitions to...
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  • The saboted light armor penetrator (SLAP) family of firearm ammunition is designed to penetrate armor more efficiently than standard armor-piercing ammunition...
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    of firearms thereafter. Pauly made an improved version, protected by a patent, on 29 September 1812. Probably no invention connected with firearms has...
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    Shotgun slug (redirect from BRI Sabot)
    exceed 0.36 in (9.1 mm) in diameter, are controlled under the Firearms Act, and require a firearms certificate to possess, which is very strictly regulated...
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  • propellant in firearms and as a pyrotechnic composition in fireworks. Since 1886, most firearms use smokeless powder. Black powder substitute: A firearm propellant...
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    bands were favored over solid ones. Cannelure Gas check Obturation Sabot (firearms) Rotating gas-check "GD-OTS Air Delivered Munitions". Archived from...
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    generations of regular ball, tracer, armor-piercing (AP), incendiary, and saboted sub-caliber rounds. The rounds intended for machine guns are made into...
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    Muzzle brake (category Firearm terminology)
    Muzzle booster Muzzle shroud Silencer (firearms) Glossary of firearms terms Muzzle brake in the NRA Firearms Glossary STI article Archived 29 September...
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  • Zealand focus mainly on vetting firearm owners, rather than registering firearms or banning certain types of firearms. Firearms legislation is provided for...
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    Diagram of the sabot method Armour-piercing discarding sabot (APDS) Armour-piercing fin-stabilized discarding sabot (APFSDS) Saboted light armor penetrator...
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    ammunition. Another example of an unsafe firearm and cartridge combination is the firing of saboted rounds in firearms with muzzle devices (such as a flash...
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    Firing pin (category Firearm components)
    of the firing mechanism of a firearm that impacts the primer in the base of a cartridge and causes it to fire. In firearms terminology, a striker is a...
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  • Recoil operation (category Firearm actions)
    operating mechanism used to implement locked-breech autoloading firearms. Recoil operated firearms use the energy of recoil to cycle the action, as opposed to...
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    Steyr IWS 2000 (category Flechette firearms)
    is chambered in a 15.2×169 mm armor-piercing fin-stabilized discarding-sabot cartridge, and is the first man-portable rifle to use this type of ammunition...
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    conchoidal spring that fired the internal percussion cap on the base of the sabot. His adoption of the bolt-action breech-loading principle combined with...
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    used as smoothbore firearms, meaning that their gun barrels have no rifling on the inner wall, but rifled barrels for shooting sabot slugs (slug barrels)...
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    Gun (category Firearms)
    portable firearm," or "a device that throws a projectile." Gunpowder and firearm historian Kenneth Chase defines "firearms" and "guns" in his Firearms: A Global...
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    Heckler & Koch P11 (category Multiple-barrel firearms)
    assemblies use a sabot to hold the projectile. Each barrel is rifled in two portions: an initial large-diameter designed to spin the sabot and projectile...
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    9×19mm Parabellum (category 9mm Parabellum firearms)
    simply as 9mm) is a rimless, centerfire, tapered firearms cartridge. Originally designed by Austrian firearm designer Georg Luger in 1901, it is widely considered...
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  • more carefully designed item which serves this purpose is often called a sabot. Wadding for muzzleloaders is typically a small piece of cloth, or paper...
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    Smoothbore (category Firearm terminology)
    rifling. Smoothbores range from handheld firearms to powerful tank guns and large artillery mortars. Early firearms had smoothly bored barrels that fired...
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    M791, M792, M793, M910, MK210, and M919. M791 armor-piercing discarding sabot with tracer The APDS-T penetrates lightly armored vehicles, self-propelled...
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    reducing the mass of the shot charge. Other unusual projectiles such as saboted flechettes, rubber balls, rock salt and magnesium shards also exist. Cartridges...
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    Examples of firearms in this range are the American 5.56 mm M16 and the Russian 5.45×39mm AK-74. Advanced Combat Rifle/Project Abakan Antique firearms British...
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    Steyr ACR (category Flechette firearms)
    roughened surface to ensure the sabot and flechette stay together during shot travel. The sabot is a four-part spindle sabot made of liquid crystal polymer...
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    Hollow-base Hollow-point Hydra-Shok Nosler partition Plastic-tipped Sabot Saboted light armor penetrator Spitzer Semiwadcutter Total metal jacket Very...
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  • central-fire breech-loading gun became a major feature of firearms thereafter. The corresponding firearm was also developed by Pauly. Pauly made an improved...
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    Arms". Retrieved 2020-11-07. Modern Firearms Page A new Weapon system from Sweden. http://www.military-today.com/firearms/cbj_ms.htm https://www.quarryhs...
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    warheads and armour-piercing discarding sabot (APDS), including armour-piercing fin-stabilized discarding sabot (APFSDS) rounds. The development of shaped...
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