The M1A2 Abrams main battle tank can fire a highly-accurate kinetic energy sabot round. This shell uses depleted uranium that can be deadly against any tank around the world.

FORT HOOD, Tx--A Sabot round is fired from an M1A2 Abrams tank during 3rd Armored Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division gunnery qualification. The Greywolf Brigade has spent the month of July qualifying ...

A jogger out for an afternoon run in Pennsylvania happened upon a surprise: a tank-killing "sabot" round likely from a M1 Abrams tank. The anti-tank round was turned over to local police, who are ...

The M68A1 on the M1 Abrams could fire a variety of armor-piercing fin-stabilized discarding sabot (APFSDS) rounds. The best anti-tank round when the M1 entered service was the M774 APFSDS round ...

The animation below shows how the round delivers its hit-to-kill lethality. Once fired, the sabot detaches midair, and the fin-stabilized dart has all the force of a 120 mm round behind it, with a ...

3,113 American Abrams tanks were in the Persian Gulf ... rounds—non-explosive armor-penetrating rounds—like the American-developed Armor-Piercing Fin-Stabilized Discarding-Sabot (APFSDS) round.

1 / 5 Show Caption + Hide Caption – Soldiers in an M1A2 Abrams tank with Company D, 3rd Battalion, 8th ... "The Sabot round contains a metal dart that is stabilized by fins and uses kinetic ...

Summary and Key Points: The AbramsX is the latest iteration of the U.S. Army's iconic M1 Abrams main battle tank, a symbol of American military strength since its debut in the 1980s.