How Do APFSDS Rounds Work?

[@alejandrovivas8567]

So is basically a high tech arrow???

[@MrTeddyTimes]

That’s what I said

[@LeMeowAu]

Youll go fucking ballistic once you realise what a tank flechette round is

[@apricotcharms4126]

@@LeMeowAu what about the can round. A giant shotgun

[@LeMeowAu]

@@apricotcharms4126 well thats more akin to a bunch of musket balls, a flechette one is basically a arrow shotgun

[@runebel]

Canister

[@MrHeuvaladao]

Who would thought we're still throwing arrows at each other in year 2023.

[@DavidRLentz]

Whatever works.

[@J.Qu1ncy]

Yea dude and nukes are just high tech canon balls

[@nickkozak4763]

@@J.Qu1ncy you ever realize the cannons on battleships are also “cannons” it has just been cannon this entire time.

[@risingforce9291]

Well check our new electric-magnet arrow.

[@J.Qu1ncy]

@@nickkozak4763 Is that canon? (As in pertaining to the lore of the canons?)

[@krishanuphukan80]

10000 years of combat evolution. Result : High Tech Arrow.

[@krishanuphukan80]

@@shelldie8523 well... said arrow is technically the most effective at killing tanks tho. 😏

[@ab3ki84hayate]

High tech arrow.. and also electromagnetic railguns, guided smart munition and the splitting of the atom, but those are just smaller advancements right?

[@LazuliteLol]

@@ab3ki84hayate railguns are just cooler electric arrows, guided munitions are big brain arrows and the atom bombs are just big arrow that go boom

[@Russo-Delenda-Est]

​@@LazuliteLolWar... war never changes.

[@whathaveicreated1197]

@@LazuliteLol atom bombs is just a stretched ball tho

[@commanderstorm8874]

This man sounds like he would be giving you a mission brief in a video game that’s set in the modern era

[@jeremymackevincaylor5041]

Except every single thing that he talks about is completely wrong. There's no explosives it's depleted uranium it burns its way through because it's going so goddamn fast. It doesn't blow up it doesn't do anything except burn a hole through it

[@khafidzainulyaqien5996]

modern warfare accent

[@oh_rhythm]

Listen up marine....

[@InTheNameOfGodIHaveCome]

The narrator sure is putting a lot of emphasis at the beginning of a few of those words towards the end of this clip. It’s subliminal if you don’t notice it. If you notice, good job using the ears you were given. 👂 Let them hear.

[@nestorgalvan3091]

War thunder

[@ashlead-dx5lj]

Fun fact the T in a sabot is silent

[@anormalrat]

No its a hard T like the K in knife

[@ice-xv1hi]

I guess they used both iterations so they would only be partially incorrect.

[@theEWDSDS]

​@@anormalratdon't remember bo being spelt with a T

[@eklhaft4531]

Fun fact would be that the "bo" part comes from "bois" which means wood. Sabots were literally wooden shoes. During the industrial revolution workers used to stick the shoes in the gears of the machine that took their jobs->a so called sabotage.

[@Das_Red]

the T in apfsds-t is means tracer

[@historygaming5149]

The video of the fire thing going through multiple layers of concrete is a video of the United States Navy's prototype for the rail gun.

[@TheThunder005]

It is, you are correct... but that round is also a Sabot, a break away cog with a dart, just going 7km/s... so the footage is still relevant.

[@catherineharris4746]

100%FACTS!😂👍👍👍

[@dirty2hosechad298]

I was about to comment that

[@Elloliott]

@@TheThunder005 idk I feel like it’s cheating

[@nicholasmuro1742]

​@lt.kf51 Where does the propellant casing go after firing the round on a tank?

[@johnflynn6140]

Your right it's french but it's a silent T, pronounced sabo

[@tktspeed1433]

Kinda like you'd pronounce say bow

[@illusiveelk2558]

Kind of makes sense. You know, because it's French.

[@MikeDCWeld]

Funny thing is it had both pronunciations in the narration.

[@akiracrow6223]

As french, i confirm that the "t" is silent. Plus, we usually call the shell "obus flèche". Arrow shell.

[@morganfee9628]

​@@akiracrow6223 Bonne démonstration! Très puissant!

[@Nightsd01]

Fun fact: the creators of this video couldn’t even be bothered to check their AI’s handiwork

[@TheByQQ]

Yeah, didn't even mention that it's not the whole "arrow" that's made of tungsten or uranium, but a penetrator inside. Also, "*usually* long and thin"? As opposed to what? A wide and short round? And I'm 99% sure that they don't actually deform and fragment, but shave off.

[@kovona]

​@@TheByQQ It depends. Depleted uranium penetrators break up at the tips in a way that's considered "self-sharpening", the flakes and particles of DU also burn intensely to add a secondary incendiary effect upon penetration. Tungsten penetrators on the other hand tend to mushroom at the tips as they go through armour.

[@gavinlightfoot5521]

​@@TheByQQold apds had a penetrating core, apfsds is almost entirely made of penetrator material. The only part that isnt made of the high density metal is the point and the fins.

[@zuadao]

@@gavinlightfoot5521 this is wrong

[@Unspeakable035]

Seeing a rifled cannon shooting an apfsds round is the most cursed thing i’ve ever seen.

[@cat_clan_leader]

Challenger 2 moment

[@72twist]

I was on the M1IP and M1A back in the 90's. While the M1A1 does use the German 120mm smoothbore main gun, the M1IP used the British/US hybrid M68A1 105mm rifled main gun and we most certainly fired sabots with great effectiveness. The brits had been using a variant of this system with sabot rounds since the 50's.

[@cat_clan_leader]

@raffaele8088 most modern guns are smooth bored, so no it's not "normal" for the gun to be rifled anymore.

[@cat_clan_leader]

@raffaele8088 No problem, have a nice day

[@Eradicationist]

@@cat_clan_leader most modern "tank" guns, lets not confuse people here.

[@ahmetzahitdemirtas4974]

It's just a fancy arrow

[@risingforce9291]

Well, you can check out humanity's new electric arrow. I don't know why they keep calling it magnetic railgun.

[@somehecucunt3194]

More like the evolution of throwing rocks at things

[@SetuwoKecik]

All of these shts just because humans were able to throw things faster than other animals. And those NPCs thinks we're triumphed in food chain only because of our brains.

[@thebfiaid957]

Why say something so brave yet so true... I mean basically all weapons derived from just throwing stuff at others.

[@ahmetzahitdemirtas4974]

@@thebfiaid957 exactly

[@randyweyant8136]

I was a inspector for the 30mm rounds & did some assembly work in a DU room ...wicked stuff !

[@DavidRLentz]

One correctly pronounces the word "sabot" as: sa•BO. It is the root of the abstract noun "sabotage" (sa•bo•TAHZH), from the practice of workers going on strike to protest poor pay, then inserting one's shoe (the sole made of hardwood) into the gearing of factory machinery to disrupt a manufacturing process.

[@LarryPeteet]

Very Cool, Thanks Dr. Science!

[@alexstasko696]

Finally short that explains something

[@Alec-jo7ic]

This channel always says that the APFSDS is the next level ammunition for every tank platform.

[@kyizelma]

@@Alec-jo7ic sabot existed since the late 50s its nothing new even the poorest countrys (that have tanks) use them

[@eddiereyna2998]

Seeing that a M1A2’SABOT round went through a tanks tube that was at an angle and then went in & out of the turret . It was a sight to remember.

[@voornaam3191]

Tube? Like Teletubbies? What tube? Exhaust?

[@Mr.Bonesz]

​@@voornaam3191 The barrel of the tank's gun

[@kyizelma]

a tube? you mean the gun. thats like saying your being held at tube-point

[@shiveshmukherjee7174]

What an explanation.👍

[@arek3866]

Ukraine 🇺🇦 needs against aggressor ❤

[@obivankeno2068]

@@arek3866 There are many countries with that problem,but none care about them...

[@jeremymackevincaylor5041]

Yeah and ninety-nine percent of it is incorrect of course. There's no explosives in those shells they're not made of tungsten they don't fracture as they go through they don't blow up with a cone-shaped explosion. They're made from depleted uranium which is spent nuclear fuel and it's four times heavier than tungsten, the reason for the sabo is to get super high velocity no other reason. And when depleted uranium hits the air it starts blaming when it hits armor it melts a hole through the tank. Nothing blows up nothing fragments from the arrow. What kills the men inside the tank is the f****** s*** of molten metal spraying all over everyone. And this is how a tungsten shell works I'm not talking about any other kind before somebody brings up world War II solid steel shot or something stupid like that.

[@User_47536]

​@@arek3866Ukraine Is just another Palestinie

[@Chris-mo4gk]

@@jeremymackevincaylor5041 So much bs in a single comment. Well done.

[@billferner6741]

The word sabotage derives from the Sabot (shoe), when the wavers in Belgium put a wooden shoe in the motorized waving machine to stop it working.

[@nicholasmuro1742]

Whats a waving machine?

[@billferner6741]

@nicholasmuro1742 what's a waving machine? It is a mechanical weaving loom that was powered by a steam engine in the beginning. The weaver lost work and income. Then they sabotage the machines.

[@62Cristoforo]

That’s where the word ‘sabotage’ came from

[@krish224488]

The clip where you show a round penetrating multiple armor plate is from electromagnetic rail gun test. Not an APFSD round. Its misleading.

[@pro3ification]

Look at the moment where he explains sabot, the animation in the background shows a rifled barrel, that cant be apfsds, anyone with a little bit of understanding this matter will know that an APFSDS is fired out of a smooth gun because the rifiling itruduces tooo much friction. Later he says that "it has fins at the back for flight stability" wich is correct, so i dont get why he showd us a rifled barrel. Probably a short done by someone who is doing low budged shorts on topics that are esnured to get views... well it works

[@cat_clan_leader]

​@@pro3ificationthe British Challenger 2 MBT has a rifled gun but still uses APFSDS. The footage may have been in relation to that. The rifling is for it's HESH shells They plan on retiring their rifled guns though

[@Russo-Delenda-Est]

The rail gun "fires" APFSDS rounds. The sabot is there to catch the electromagnetic charge, instead of the chemical propellant, but the concept is almost identical, little uranium spear = hard to throw, so wrap it in something while accelerating, fins for accuracy after. 🤷‍♂️

[@MrTeddy12397]

@@pro3ification APFSDS can be fired from a rifled barrel, that's what was done originally. But then they discovered that it's performance suffers greatly compared to a smooth barrel.

[@Eradicationist]

it is a APFSDS as others have said, but electromagnetically charged and fired instead...

[@sagenbabin8786]

Best part is depleted uranium is self sharpening so it keeps a constant razor sharp point as it penetrates as opposed to tungsten that rounds off after a given distance

[@runebel]

Using railgun footage bad, but it really gets the point across

[@michaeldonnelly2977]

This short video was well made. All the important info with no wasted time on bullshit.

[@llamaman4339]

World’s most dangerous thumb tack

[@satara2520]

protogen *boop*

[@Echo_4609]

Tungsten is the one that mushrooms. Depleted Uranium rounds are preferred by all top nations because it has a "self sharpening" aspect to it

[@pteppig]

YES, id did. Thank you for asking

[@tilmanr.3299]

I'm impressed by the thick sloped piece of metal that still got pierced like butter. Holy shit

[@EhsanAfridi]

"Pointy is good, its scary, roundtip is not"

[@WhatIsThatThingDoing]

The Dictator reference?

[@jeanangelo98]

For those wondering, it’s pronounced “say-bo” bo is pronounced like bows in archery 🏹

[@sporehux8344]

Tell me I imagined the "sexual density" bit

[@Ninjapizza8247]

Yes and no

[@timothystone3360]

Sectional density.

[@LukeEdward1]

I mean it does have high hardness

[@sporehux8344]

@@LukeEdward1 Need a hand up from the gutter :P 🫴 although since im allready there itll probably have to be a boost.

[@InTheNameOfGodIHaveCome]

Trying to figure out why your hearing subliminal messages where they definitely shouldn’t be? The narrators tone changes right after that bit, to more heavily emphasize the beginnings of… particular words.

[@CubiCNooBiC]

This arrow is very nice, not only it can destroy tank, it also spread vitamins that help people!

[@DimentiaGaming]

The forbidden thumbtack

[@realspoderman2359]

actually learned something new, great vid

[@ckaryuusai1722]

do they like.. picked the sabot back up when the battle is over?

[@thespartanamongus1121]

The sabot is not recovered, they likely are ruined once they detach and hit the ground.

[@LeMeowAu]

My brother in christ, the rounds get obliterated alongside the armor, watch xyz simulations or smthing

[@miku_hoshino]

Bruh it will disintegrate on penetration or hit

[@squidysnose69]

​@@LeMeowAu bruh the gunner can miss

[@runebel]

To the people thinking the sabot is the arrow, it's not. The sabot holds the arrow in place until at the end of the gunbarrel

[@rguess]

About a month before I am seeing this I found out the purpose of the sabot which is a stopper to prevent pressure leaks and keep the projectile centered.

[@SA-xf1eb]

Silver bullets. Orc slayer rounds.

[@joelperillotempra9324]

For most efectiveness of the sabot add titanium shell coat to the tungsten rod to create a fire after penetrating the target

[@filipsaric2745]

I think depleted uranium does that

[@johnsanders561]

I think it's considered an armour defeating type munition as opposed to an armour piercing type.

[@cjwrench07]

That depends on the material. The Depleted Uranium alloys is unlike anything Tungsten alloys can do. The DU sabots actually self-sharpens as pieces break off upon penetration, and hitting additional layers/materials (especially the new US segmented DU sabot round). *Against armour at/near its penetration limit,* the DU sabot works more like the cutting action of a HEAT warhead. Rather than on pure kinetic energy overmatch capability, like old school AP and the new Explosively Formed Penetrators.

[@CasabaHowitzer]

It is literally called "armor piercing"

[@daviddunkelheit9952]

The key metric is that the sabot drops away and that cross-section (120mm) that was explosively propelled out the tube imparts all of the kinetic energy to a small dart.

[@Jackedhobbit]

You know it’s a French word so the next step is not pronouncing the T at the end.

[@TickLover1]

You pronounce "know" as "no" and the Word is not french...

[@BobaPhettamine]

it's pronounced sabow no matter where you are from you idiot@@TickLover1

[@extravenusiano6352]

​@@TickLover1 just like knight, both Ks were pronounced back then, french influence 💀

[@shadow9774]

The word sabot is pronounced " say-bo". APFSDS is an acroynm for Armor Piercing Fin Stabalized Discarding Sabot. It requires a smoothbore gun on the tank rather than a rifled one to fire. It generally replaced the prevous type of primary ammo to knock out armored vebicles, the High Explosive Squash Head "HESH". That type of ammo used explosve force rather than penetration to do damage, and is not as good against displacing/reactive armor. The good thing about hesh is that it doesn't require those rare heavy metals that apfsds does. And can also be fired out of a rifled tank bore.

[@TheByQQ]

HESH was mostly used by British tanks, others used HEAT

[@shadow9774]

@TheByQQ HESH was designed by the Brittish during WWII. During that time the US used solid shot and HEAT. The US used HESH during the cold War and is still used by the US for the destruction of structures by the Abrams. For AP applications, the APFSDS is used. The Brittish use a rifled tank bore, so they can't use APFSDS. Instead, they stick to HESH primarily.

[@dclong-]

Sabot, pronounced "Say-bow"

[@brimstoneonsteam9069]

You either pronounce it the french way or you can just not bother and pronounce it with the t. "Say-bow" is bs.

[@AARKYVE]

I didn't know about it deforming and making a smaller hole than its diameter. Makes sense but was something I always overlooked.

[@mitchellminer9597]

So they are sabotaging the other tank?

[@braith117]

I mean...a rod of depleted uranium busting into the crew compartment of a tank and then heating the air inside to over 6000 F does tend to work against the good function of the other tank.

[@extravenusiano6352]

​@@braith117 little sabotage and trolling

[@donutrangerr]

Damn, its wild how we go back to the arrow days

[@Big74Mike2012]

Yyeeaahhhhh... that's not how you pronounce "Sabot"! *facepalm*

[@derrekvanee4567]

*Microsoft tom.wants the upvotes* just dislike komrads da

[@hekmatyar4476]

There's 2 ways of pronouncing it just depends on what accent you use just like aluminum

[@C0ttageChees]

It should be like "say bow", yeah?

[@pitot0philo207]

​@@C0ttageChees correct

[@peatmoss4415]

@@hekmatyar4476 Not quite, aluminum is also spelled aluminium in England and that is why they pronounce it with the nium and the US pronounce it num.

[@davorvigato7586]

Very good explain !!

[@Palaemon907]

The ol war crime round

[@n3v3rforgott3n9]

no it isnt lmao

[@akanonymoss]

Shows footage of rail gun 😂

[@jellylightningii5959]

If guns have picatinny rails, does that make them a rail gun 🤔

[@akanonymoss]

@@jellylightningii5959 of course 🫡

[@rholmst]

I think it’s interesting that the outer case shell is actually part of the propellant, and after the shot the only thing discarded is the end cap primer section.

[@robies197]

Pronounced say-bo

[@runebel]

Sa-bo

[@icommitedthefunny]

its literally the final evolution of the arrow and i love it

[@wayno-hw1ev]

Added bit of trivia the blue sabot means they're practice rounds, to save money the use a steel sabot rather than tungsten or DU

[@sigstenbockgard8080]

sabots on all round are made from steel

[@charliebell2548]

Beautiful rounds

[@bobwilk5155]

Depleted Uranium is use to "improve" food processing and "boost Health" all this who live in the Naibourhood or consume food from this Naibourhood. Thanks for reaching out from USNATO. and British Islanders.

[@mdtransmissionspecialties]

Sabot is for the rifling to allow the projectile to spin and go straight

[@autisticreatard7848]

This is closer to a dart that an arrow as it dose not flex or spin (at least modern ones dont) also the diagram is pretty old and features a soft matal ring around the sabbot but modern tanks are smooth bore meaning that there is no need for that ring as its meant to interact with the rifling of the barrle and make it spin

[@adawg3032]

fun fact: the sabots are designed to be as light as possible, main benefit of sabot ammo is that the long arrow shaped penetrators in a barrel much wider than the actual projectile itself causes a massive increase in muzzle velocity

[@barispeace]

Fun fact: The Sabot is the root of Sabotage expression. In the early stages of industrial revolution workers throw their wooden Sabots into the machines in order to break down their gear mechanisms. Sabotage coins from this.

[@ruvanefriebus-cv6td]

It's a tungsten or depleted uranium dart projectile encased in a wad if one can call it that and is used like any standard main gun tank munition the velocity of these rounds is so great they can hit moving helicopters if aimed properly obviously they negate deflecting on slanted armour at greater distances aswell well rounded but you need to hit vital components on the enemy tank

[@gaptaxi]

You show a Leopard 2 but use a Challenger Rifled barrel for the demo, it is very good though, the Leo 2 and just about every other NATO 120mm are smoothbore!

[@WadeWeigle]

I’m loving it.

[@AbhisarRawat]

5000years of war, and Arrows went from subsonic to supersonic

[@soggycarrot3319]

“Sir the foot is coming” “Load the thumbtacks”

[@lando2236]

This is like the peak of throwing a rock at someone

[@worldtraveler930]

Also upon Exiting the armored vehicle the Sabo generates a Vacuum which tends to Suck ALL Organic matter through that tiny exit hole!!! 🤠👍

[@AllisterCaine]

No... How do these stupid myths get around?

[@worldtraveler930]

@@AllisterCaine It's not a myth my information comes from a Full Commander of the Spetzknot's Paratrooper Corps who was able to witness this exact thing happen both in there Afghanistan war and in their modern war with Russia!!! 🤠👍

[@lemons1559]

​@@worldtraveler930 I've read many many many research papers on how sabot rounds affect their target and pressure is never even mentioned as an effect. Your "full commander" is spouting bullshit.

[@worldtraveler930]

I'll tell you what take your research papers and your Happy Ass to Kyiv or anywhere else in the Ukraine or they're fighting the Russians and get some First Hand Observation Before You Yourself start Spouting Bullshit!!! 💩😠🖕 P.s. Merry Christmas 🎄🤠👍🇺🇦

[@majorhatchback]

The Sabot knows where it is because it knows where it isn’t

[@ronemtae3468]

Has a ABRAMS fire troll in the first golf war. This was my favorite weapon.

[@nickking3310]

Uranium also gets sharper, never dulls.

[@racqballs]

Ive seen what these do on test vehicles. Brutal to anything inside.

[@Tankslayer109]

These arrows one would think are light... you'd be wrong under that presumption. My m829 example is around 14lbs, my russian counterpart the 3bm22, is around 16lbs. Both incredibly powerful.

[@Thatcringekid]

Imagine getting obliterated by a thumbtack-arrow

[@chrisfisichella7665]

Good design

[@Redeulous]

Imagine sitting in your outdated Russian tank and you see the THUMBTACK OF FREEDOM heading at you for the split second before you get blown to bits.

[@Reaver9021]

It is also fired from smoot bore barrels and munition doesn't spin like bullets from assault or sniper rifles. This is crucial since apfsds is kinetic charge munition and it can preserve more of its at the same range compared to riffled. Stabilizing fins allows apfsds to be more effective and accurate at longer ranges at they stabilize the munition aerodynamically.

[@sigstenbockgard8080]

the challanger 2 has a rifled barrel

[@Reaver9021]

@@sigstenbockgard8080 That is true but It fires general purpose HESH shell or apfsds shell with specially designed outer layer.

[@sigstenbockgard8080]

@@Reaver9021 yeah so it's apfsds from a rifled barrel. many low caliber auto canons are also rifled while still being apfsds capable

[@Reaver9021]

@@sigstenbockgard8080 The main takeaway here when apfsds fired in this fashion won't spin. It will traverse like an arrow or as name suggests dart. That is why british tanks mostly uses HESH since HESH needs spinning but it is very much less effective agaisnt armor compared to apfsds. And that is why rifled barrel will be replaced with smooth bore barrels in the next gen British mbts.

[@borntoclimb7116]

Very interesting

[@biotoxin6280]

Arrows it’s always arrows the amount of former adventures must be immense.

[@adabsurdum5905]

I made a civilian version that launched a crossbow bolt out of a potato gun, and even smaller versions with throwing darts and nerf guns. Sabots are so cool

[@BlackGryph0n]

OK, but why do they look like Oscar awards?… 0:45

[@ChesterManfred]

A single, oversized flechette, like if your Froot Loop box came with a single, very big froot loop

[@Knobs4u]

I walked in half way through and thought he was describing my peter

[@SirMatthew]

Kinda funny how after all these centuries we've somehow come back to arrows

[@AayYoWhatUp]

Thanks to Therussianbadger I know what APFSDS, Armor Piercing Fin Stabilized Discarding Sabot.

[@bondrewdbestdad]

Oh cool, next we should do the ASDFADFS rounds

[@CelalzZ]

I remember there are popular slippers like crocs named sabo in my childhood

[@AsianDrag0n]

I’m able to read the ammo abbreviations now thanks to TheRussianBadger lmao. Armor Piercing Fin Stabilized Discarding Sabot.

[@Krypterium]

longer distance with less explosion ,this reminded me of Battlefield 4

[@michaellemmons4759]

yeah, first it discards the sabot, then it's stabilized by fins, then it pierces armor. so basically backwards from the description.

[@marcelgordijn1400]

thks for explaning

[@westsenkovec]

Those pointy tips look really dangerous. Someone could get hurt.

[@and_gelitan]

My introverted ass making a launcher to launch thumbtacks at my only friend:

[@harsh-wardhan]

This guy sounds like the intro from Star Wars - "In a galaxy far far away" being played at 2x.

[@Lil_poopy_Squat]

Looks like a shell case with a thumb tack glued to it

[@emgab1481]

Thats suprisingly accurate you get a sticker 🎉

[@ClydeAlb]

"We never stopped throwing rocks at each other we just got better at it "

[@Allahster]

I feel like someone has said once before “I could probably catch that”

[@toxicnova5849]

It passes through the tank hitting only a fuel tank and missing the crew completely and then you die while trying to capture the C point

[@Selinasdevil]

How does this have 2.6 million views and only 123k likes?

[@NITROJACKALOPE]

You know, this is good info- but the clip of the projectile piercing multiple plates is from a railgun test. Still a Saboted projectile, yes, but an important clarification I think.

[@HaZe_Da_PiTBuLL]

They even have these for 12 gauge shotguns same thing sabot with tungsten arrows but just 1 flechette instead of multiple tiny ones like typical 12 guage rounds with tiny arrows

[@The_spyTF2]

Fun fact:depleted uranium has a self sharpening effect and going at the speeds it is gives it that armor piercing effect

[@ericrobbins1022]

The whack thing is APFSDS and sabot rounds are incredibly deadly, almost as deadly APHE is, if not more

[@fbijojo986]

As a World of Tanks player I knew what it ment as soon as he said the abbreviation