Comments on: Holy Canister Shot Batman!

By: me

me — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 23:55:42 +0000

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?

By: Shot gunning from a tank: M1028 | The Firearm Blog

Shot gunning from a tank: M1028 | The Firearm Blog — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 00:49:52 +0000

[...] 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). [...]

By: anon

anon — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:21:11 +0000

Pretty cool photography. It’s amazing that they can track the thing. Also, you can see the shock wave leading the canister.

By: Sebastian

Sebastian — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 14:47:27 +0000

Canister shot is as old as artillery. Most of the research probably went into making the video :)

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Call me Ahab » Blog Archive » Yes, but can it shoot skeet? — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 14:44:19 +0000

[...] Cannister shot on a tank. [...]

By: Jared McLaughlin

Jared McLaughlin — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 14:31:39 +0000

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.

By: Ahab

Ahab — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 03:17:23 +0000

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.

By: Brad

Brad — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 02:27:25 +0000

Nice. Very reminiscent of the high speed camera shots they do on Mythbusters.

By: Alcibiades McZombie

Alcibiades McZombie — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 22:39:22 +0000

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.