@@stephenwignall5977 if he ships international it's technically true! I was just playing along with the joke. .. , I'm sure he's following all trade restrictions so I'm not worrying.
@@ExtremeUnction1988 so the enemy cant see them at night. Nah just joking, most nations designate armor piercing bullets by having the tip of the projectile being painted black to differentiate them at first glance from other types (there different colors for high explosive, tracer and so on). I think germans made the entire casing black for some AP rounds even back in WW2, has probably something to do with their manufacturing process or its a clear designation for inert rounds (training rounds are often unicolored, mostly in blue but it depends whats cheaper for the govt. at the time)
@@ExtremeUnction1988it a joke because the US government thinks that black rifles are more dangerous than brown wooden ones that shoot the same bullet.
You can’t be serious. Please tell me you’re just being funny. Wtf car do you have that costs less than a used dummy round, that clearly has no powder, that has already been shot, and even literally cut at the end so you can unscrew it.
@@whathaveicreated1197 First off, we are talking about side armor, not rear. And second, the side armor of a modern MBT, like a leopard or abrahams, is 300-400mm. Thats 12-15 Inches of armor. You are not gonna make it through that with a 20mm gun.
@alexplays24333 Just about everyone in the world has "contact with a government," I'm not sure what that has to do with obtaining decommissioned ordinance. These are sourced privately, the space to store ammunition is too valuable for "the government" to still have stuff this old lying about.
no unique engineering here, also nothing revloutionary. it's a fairly standard Sabot round. They're super cool, but it's old tech that more or less everyone has. There's not "Germanic engineering" here (although Germany does have quite a history of fantastic firearm design, this round isn't it)
@@ryantannar5301 That's not entirely true. Each round leaving germany got a picture of Angela Merkel inside the shell. You know, politicians getting old and doing weird things to be remembered...
Это 22 мл. снаряд с вольфрановой - бронебойной пулей, покрашен в чёрный цвет, что б не "перепутать" с "боевым". Предназначен для разборного внутреннего изучения , устройства данного "снаряда", бойцами...
Probably the most beatiful AP round I've ever seen. I expect nothing less from germany honestly. The greatest minds on earth typically come from Germany. Hopefully I can go to school there and learn there ways after I join the marines this year. Gotta learn german though 😂.
They were smelting iron and building civilizations, cities and plumbing systems in Africa when Western Europeans were still living in caves. Seriously, Africa is a treasure chest to the world; that most overlook!
Whenever i hear discarding sabot, i always think of those weirdly shaped ones that tanks use. It never occurred to me the discarding sabot could look exactly like a normal bullet.
These channels have made me appreciate just how wasteful war is. That's a lot of engineering and materials for one round out of countless that get fired in a war.
@@Сталкер-ь2х yeah same here, I can admire the technology that went behind it. Was just saying that it's mind blowing how many resources are used up in war.
No nothing happened that the bullet is very small and it speed is not enough to generate energy that can tear earth apart. Probably make a small hole on the ground with not much impact. If a tungsten rod is from an orbital weapon then It can destroy the city.
Imagine being part of an armored vehicle crew, seeing a 25mm autocannon being aimed at you and thinking "oh shit" and then just getting shredded by a couple hundred of these things. Terrifying...
I mean I know how they work. I own some even. Most tho have 2 to 4 segments that house the projectile tho. Each of which fall away nearly immediately after fired due to drag. This one however is a single piece. The rear of it is split in a crusiform mandrel style fashion so it can be screwed into its base. But unless the nose is also split it appears it will stay with the projectile till it hits the target for some reason. To imply wind will pry it apart and dismantle it seems not too kosher. You want it to discard immediately in theory with the least effort possible. If not and it dosent get broken away in the exact way needed and let's say one half stays on a split second longer than the other side it could cause a huge detriment to accuracy. In fact most sabots are designed to come apart so easily and fast that they don't recommend users use barrels with brakes when firing them due to risks of them expanding and clogging the barrels and exploding. (A rarely mentioned theory as to why Scott on Kentucky Ballastics 50 cal blew up... along with him lol.) So yeah just curious as to how exactly this sabot discards is all.
The sabot is pre-segmented (the split you were referring to), to allow for even/uniform separation from the penetrator after the sabot exits the muzzle
My ass knowing absolutely nothing about higher caliber cartridges: "Oh it's some kinda fake casing, probably just some weird bottle or opener or something-" *Extremely advanced throwing rock slips out* "Oh it's real, got it"
That seemless looking core tells me this actually may be a FAPDS round, Frangible Armor Piercing Discarding Sabot. A special Tungsten alloy is used in FAP rounds, and the cores are designed to break up as they penetrate the target, yielding more fragments with every "layer" hit within the target. These rounds offer some penetration mixed with Beyond Armor Damage. Mostly used against aircraft and naval targets, though it is becoming trendy as a multi-purpose round.
Wow you live at a beach obviously with big waves at the time of making this video 😊❤ love watching you strip down shells and old speaker heads and stuff it's very interesting to me. 🙏💜🕊️
As a guy who spent time being chauffeured around in an M2A2, I have a soft spot in my heart and a hard spot in my jeans for that 25mm round..... it is a BEAST.
I'm confused about a couple things: 1.Why does the primer look spent? 2.Is the projectile really threaded onto the casing? That seems like it would mess with the separation of the two during firing.
The primer is indeed spend. Probably part of the demil process to make it safe. After it leaves the barrel, the sabot tip spreads open and then there is nothing holding the penetrator back, while the sabot itself gets left behind due to its massive drag.
