Keep this in mind, and try to aim for locations that will allow detonation as centrally within the target as possible.ĪPCR rounds often use tungsten carbide or other extremely hard metals as a sub-calibre penetrator, wrapped within a softer full-calibre sabot - the APCR concept is essentially a predecessor to the APDS design. Tanks with large or numerous modules directly behind weak spots (for example, front-mounted transmissions) can block the entire round from further penetration, or simply block the post-penetration effect from passing. Vehicles with rolled homogeneous armour side skirts of reasonable thickness can detonate fast fuse APHE early, sometime avoiding internal damage entirely. After the fuse activates, the contained explosive will be ignited after passing a specified distance, resulting in significantly increased internal damage to a target. The fuse only activates if the shell collides with a surface of reasonable thickness, mostly dictated by shell calibre - though there are exceptions with a slower or faster fuse. While the concept sacrifices some structural integrity and thus penetrating power, the destructive ability of an APHE round is nearly unrivalled. HE-Filled Armour-Piercing Rounds take the concept of armour-piercing rounds and add a deadly twist - a quantity of HE filler on a timed fuse, designed to explode after a successful penetration. The APCBC should be the preferred option given a selection of full-calibre solid shot rounds, when available, and should be situationally switched for APHE rounds when they're available. US rounds usually have explosive filler, acting like an APHEBC shell, while British and French rounds don't. As such, APCBC rounds tend to exhibit the best all-round characteristics of any conventional kinetic rounds.ĪPCBC is a common shell for British, French and American mid-to-late WW2 vehicles. Generally, solid AP does not stop until it has exhausted all of its force and is capable of passing through an entire vehicle if this energy is not fully expended.ĪPCBC rounds combine the standard cap and the ballistic cap, improving the round's aerodynamic and penetration performance. The amount of spalling generated by a successful AP penetration depends on the shell mass and thickness of the penetrated armour and modules.
The result is a simple, yet effective anti-tank round that will punch through armour with high equivalent thickness values, while retaining reasonable post-penetration effects which, when well-placed, can deal significant internal damage to components and crew directly within the shrapnelling path. Solid AP rounds are a kinetic munition that utilise a hardened metal (often steel) shell with full-calibre diameter. Under the right circumstances, solid kinetic rounds can penetrate multiple vehicles along their trajectory. Most kinetic rounds can hit targets through lighter obstacles - trees, walls and some buildings. Mass, shell type and hardness are constants, but velocity reduces with distance travelled and as such at longer ranges kinetic rounds will lose penetration ability and in some cases post-penetration efficacy. Kinetic rounds penetrate and deal damage based on a number of factors shell type, projectile mass, round velocity and material hardness. 2.4.5 Anti-Tank Guided Missile, HE (ATGM-HE).2.4.4 Anti-Tank Guided Missile, Tandem Charge (ATGM Tandem).2.4.3 Anti-Tank Guided Missile, Proximity Fuse (ATGM-VT*).2.4.2 Anti-Tank Guided Missile, Top Down Attack (ATGM-TD).2.3.4 High-Explosive, Anti-Tank Grenade.2.3.3 High-Explosive, Anti-Tank, Fin-Stabilised, Proximity Fuse (HEATFS VT*).2.3.2 High-Explosive, Anti-Tank, Fin-Stabilized (HEATFS).2.2.2 High-Explosive Squash Head (HESH).2.1.5 Anti-Personnel Fragmentation Grenade (VOG).2.1.3 High-Explosive Variable Time Fuse (HE-VT*).1.3.3 Armour-Piercing, Fin-Stabilised, Discarding Sabot (APFSDS).1.3.2 Armour-Piercing, Discarding Sabot (APDS).1.3.1 Armour-Piercing, Composite, Rigid (APCR).1.2.3 Armour-Piercing, High-Explosive, Capped, Ballistic Capped (APHECBC).1.2.2 Armour-Piercing, High-Explosive, Ballistic Capped (APHEBC).1.2.1 Armour-Piercing, High-Explosive (APHE).1.1.4 Armour-Piercing, Capped, Ballistic Capped (APCBC).1.1.3 Armour-Piercing, Ballistic Capped (APBC).
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