General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems booked a potential $464.6 million Army contract for 120mm M865A1 tank training ammunition.

Each shell is designed with an impact fuse and a steel casing filled with approximately three kilograms of TNT, which can generate around 2,000 deadly shrapnel pieces upon detonation.

An empty 30-millimeter test casing prepares to enter the core of the Super Pull Apart Machine, or SPAM, during a briefing of the Crane Army Ammunition Activity machine’s capabilities Feb. 20.

Included in this drawdown of existing US military equipment is “120mm depleted uranium tank ammunition for Abrams tanks,” making the United States the second country after the United Kingdom ...