January29, 2007: When the Barrett company introduced the .50 caliber (12.7mm) sniper rifle in the 1980s, it was not the only company working on the concept. The Steyr-Mannlicher company, of Austria, ...

Nexter Munitions is in the final stages of developing a new 120 mm armour-piercing fin-stabilised discarding-sabot (APFSDS) round called the 120 Shard, the company announced on 9 March. Designed to be ...

General Dynamics was selected ahead of one other bidder to supply M724A2 Target Practice Discarding Sabot – Tracer for training use with tank-mounted 105mm guns. General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical ...

KNDS's Nexter announced in a press release on 29 February that it had qualified its Shard 120 mm armour-piercing fin-stabilised discarding sabot (APFSDS) tank ammunition in late 2023 and that it is ...

A new radically different ammunition was given to the crews of Churchill tanks, Sherman Fireflies and Infantry and Royal Artillery Anti-tank units. Unlike any previous anti-tank ammuntion this type ...

China recently revealed the world’s most powerful armor-piercing 120mm/125mm canon Jeffrey Lin and P.W. Singer report over at Popular Science. According to the 127th Ordinance Institute of the Central ...