High-explosive anti-tank (HEAT) is the effect of a shaped charge explosive that uses the Munroe effect to penetrate heavy armor. The warhead functions...
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sometimes on the order of metres or tens of metres. Rocket-propelled high-explosive anti-tank (HEAT) systems appeared in World War II and extended range to the...
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shoulder-launched systems firing high-explosive anti-tank rockets. These rockets typically consist of a high-explosive anti-tank warhead affixed to a rocket...
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penetrators, high-explosive anti-tank, and cannon-launched guided projectiles. Anti-aircraft guns can also be mounted to tanks. As the tank's primary armament...
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120×570mm NATO (redirect from 120×570mm NATO tank ammunition)
conflits de demain. E-T-A-I. p. 191. ISBN 978-2726894385. "120mm M830 High Explosive Anti-Tank-Multi Purpose - Tracer (HEAT-MP-T)". fas.org. Federation of American...
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a high-explosive anti-tank (HEAT) shaped charge. During the Ukraine war of 2014- , drones and loitering munitions have attacked and destroyed tanks. Anti-tank...
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high-explosive squash head (HESH) concept is also used. In military terminology, warheads employing shaped charges are called high-explosive anti-tank (HEAT)...
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of vehicle armor designed to protect against high-explosive anti-tank (HEAT) attacks, as used by anti-tank guided missiles (ATGMs) and rocket-propelled...
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armored fighting vehicles. Compared to anti-personnel mines, anti-tank mines typically have a much larger explosive charge, and a fuze designed to be triggered...
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WW2-era ones. This light armour also detonates explosive warheads prematurely. High-explosive anti-tank-type warheads (HEAT) use a focused hypervelocity...
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Rocket-propelled grenade (category Anti-tank rockets)
rockets equipped with an explosive warhead. Most RPGs can be carried by an individual soldier, and are frequently used as anti-tank weapons. These warheads...
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105×617mmR (section High explosive anti-tank (HEAT))
containing a tracer element. "High Explosive Plastic" is the US term for HESH. Ogorkiewicz, Richard M (1991). Technology of Tanks. United Kingdom: Jane's Information...
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T-34 tanks (177, some sold to Mali and other African countries; 42 kept in storage near the village of Ohrid, Bulgaria; some are used as anti-tank weapons...
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June 2020). "Watch Russian Troops Snuff Out An Oil Well Blaze With An Anti-Tank Gun". The Drive. Retrieved 21 July 2023. Cullen, Tony; Foss, Christopher...
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high-explosive anti-tank HEAT-FS – high-explosive anti-tank fin-stabilised HEAT-MP – high-explosive anti-tank multipurpose HEAT-MP(P) – high-explosive anti-tank...
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Armour-piercing ammunition (redirect from Armour-piercing high explosive)
but in anti-tank use, the much smaller and higher velocity shells used only about 0.5% e.g. Panzergranate 39 with only 0.2% high-explosive filling....
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High explosive squash head (HESH) A high-explosive squash head (HESH), in British terminology, or a high-explosive plastic/plasticized (HEP), in American...
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rocket launcher. Propelled by a 30 mm cartridge, the 70 mm (2.8 in) high-explosive anti-tank (HEAT) shaped charge round could penetrate about 150 mm (5.9 in)...
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The tank gun is still useful in urban combat for precisely delivering powerful fire while minimizing collateral damage. High-explosive anti-tank (HEAT)...
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In warfare, high-explosive incendiary (HEI) is a type of ammunition specially designed to impart energy and therefore damage to its target in one or both...
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specialized anti-tank munitions and anti-tank guns was prompted by the appearance of tanks during World War I. To destroy hostile tanks, artillerymen...
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threats including rocket-propelled grenades, anti-tank guided missiles and tank-fired high-explosive anti-tank (HEAT) ammunition and kinetic energy penetrators...
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discarding sabot (APFSDS) and high-explosive anti-tank (HEAT) shells, and/or high-explosive squash head (HESH) and/or anti-tank guided missiles (ATGM) to...
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7.5 cm KwK 37 (category Tank guns of Germany)
Hl - High Explosive Anti-Tank Gr.38 Hl/A - High Explosive Anti-Tank Gr.38 Hl/B - High Explosive Anti-Tank Gr.38 Hl/C - High Explosive Anti-Tank Projectile...
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Mk 153 Shoulder-Launched Multipurpose Assault Weapon (category Anti-tank rockets of the United States)
tanks using the high-explosive anti-tank rocket. Operations in Afghanistan and Iraq saw a thermobaric rocket added (described as a "novel explosive"...
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M830 (category Anti-tank rounds)
The M830 is an American high explosive anti-tank (HEAT) high explosive multi purpose cartridge which has anti-armor and anti-personnel capabilities. This...
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Shaped charge (category Anti-tank weapons)
Contrary to a misconception, possibly resulting from the acronym for high-explosive anti-tank, HEAT, the shaped charge does not depend in any way on heating...
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prohibitively high, restricting its use to especially vulnerable parts of a vehicle. Its primary purpose is to help defeat high-explosive anti-tank (HEAT) projectiles...
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HJ-10 (category Anti-tank guided missiles of the People's Republic of China)
10") is a Chinese ground-launched anti-tank missile developed by Norinco. It has a tandem high-explosive anti-tank (HEAT) warhead, that may penetrate...
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installation in the tank Type 59 During World War II, UOF-412 round carried the 15.6 kg (34.39 lbs) F-412 high-explosive fragmentation shell. Anti-tank ammunition...
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