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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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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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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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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.50 BMG (section Partial list of .50 BMG firearms)
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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Gun law in New Zealand (redirect from Firearms regulation in New Zealand)
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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Sub-caliber ammunition (section Sabot method)
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Hunter is a rifled, single shot deer shotgun made by H & R Firearms. It is accurate with saboted slugs up to 200 yards. It comes in 12 and 20 gauges and...
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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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