It can also severely damage and put an enemy tank out of order without actually breaking through its armor.Īs mentioned, a HESH round contains plastic explosive which is got "smeared" over the surface or armor and destroys it. Such a HESH munition can effectively destroy enemy fortifications or lightly armored vehicles at a distance of 8 km, this firing range is roughly 3-5 km bigger than a conventional subcaliber penetrator projectile has. Meanwhile, Challenger 2 still needs its own ammunition, both sub-caliber armor-piercing and high-explosive fragmentation ones, including the unique HESH anti-armor high-explosive rounds which utilize plastic explosive to penetrate armor. In other words, eventually, the issue of the unification of ammunition for these two tanks was sorted out. Abrams has its locally licensed analog M256 of the same length, and later versions Leopard 2A6 and further started using an Rh-120 55 calibers long.
On the other hand, American M1 Abrams and German Leopard 2 before version A5 use practically the same Rheinmetall Rh-120 gun with a length of 44 calibers (~5.3 m). For starters, it has a rifled bore, for seconds, it uses non-standard separate-loading projectiles that are not unified with the Alliance.
Despite its unified ammunition caliber, the gun itself is unusual.
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