Not a new concept in artillery, by any stretch, but there’s some great photography in this video:
Hat tip to my friend Jason for finding this one.
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February 26th, 2008 at 5:39 pm
It’s supposed to have an 800 yard range.
I wonder if it would be legal to mount a blackpowder cannon on a [legally-purchased] tank… Then fire some canister rounds through that.
It’d probably be easier just to mount a gatling gun… which still would be awesome.
February 26th, 2008 at 9:27 pm
Nice. Very reminiscent of the high speed camera shots they do on Mythbusters.
February 26th, 2008 at 10:17 pm
I wonder how they’d feel about that at my local skeet range.
Although from a military standpoint, I would have loved to have a round like that for the 76mm on BEAR.
February 27th, 2008 at 9:31 am
I’m not entirely sure why this has taken “research” to develop. AFAIK the M60, with it’s 105mm main gun, had just such a round. I’m not sure if it’s some sort of memory error on my part, but I seem to remember the M1IP’s, which have a 105mm gun, had a selector for APERS-T which is basically the same thing.
We’d been told they were “researching” how to make these things work in the 120mm. I think they were simply “researching” whether it would work with the Geneva Convention, etc.
February 27th, 2008 at 9:44 am
[...] Cannister shot on a tank. [...]
February 27th, 2008 at 9:47 am
Canister shot is as old as artillery. Most of the research probably went into making the video :)
February 27th, 2008 at 12:21 pm
Pretty cool photography. It’s amazing that they can track the thing. Also, you can see the shock wave leading the canister.
February 28th, 2008 at 7:49 pm
[...] The M1028 is a 120mm shotgun shell for the M1 tank. The shell holds 1100 10mm tungsten balls. They are apparently lethal up to 700m (765 yards). Here is a video of the shell being fired in slow motion. It shows the shot breaking the sound barrier and the shot pattern (H/T to Sebastian). [...]
March 9th, 2008 at 6:55 pm
Cool. Only, why was taxpayer money spent to develop this when the Israelis have been manufacturing a 120mm antipersonnel flechette round compatible with NATO-standard 120mm tank guns for 25 years?
I’m sure this works well and I’m sure it’ll save American lives, but how much cheaper would it have been to buy off-the-shelf from IMI?