This, the use of new composites for the sabot, and a new propellant provide superior penetrator performance. These include a special manufacturing process that improves the structural quality of the depleted uranium penetrator. The new ammunition's performance gains, while classified, result from several new features. It is a technology improvement over the M829A1. The next generation ammunition, called 120 mm APFSDS-T M829A2, entered service in 1994 and is the armor-piercing ammunition currently being produced by General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems for the 120 mm M256 gun of M1A1 and M1A2 tanks. The effective target range is 3,000 m (3,300 yd). The mass of the penetrator alone is 4.6 kg (10 lb). The 684-millimeter-long (26.9 in) penetrator and its sabot together weigh 9 kg (20 lb). The 7.9 kg (17 lb) of JA-19 propellant creates a chamber pressure of 5,600 bars (81,221 psi), which results in a muzzle velocity of 1,575 m/s (5,170 ft/s). The M829A1 round weighs 20.9 kg (46 lb) and has an overall length of 984 mm (38.7 in).
The M829A1 (nicknamed the " Silver Bullet" by Operation Desert Storm tank crews) proved itself in 1991 against Iraqi T-55 and T-72M tanks during Operation Desert Storm. The corresponding training round is the M865, costing $1,121. The original M829 is no longer in production and has been succeeded by the M829A1, M829A2, and M829A3. According to Jane's, the M829 is capable of penetrating 540 mm (21 in) of RHA steel armor at up to a 2,000 m (2,200 yd) range. Its maximum effective range is 3,000 m (3,300 yd). It has a total weight of 41.1 lb (18.6 kg) and a 627 mm (24.7 in) DU penetrator with a 27 mm (1.1 in) rod diameter, which reaches a muzzle velocity of 1,670 meters per second (5,500 ft/s) using 8.1 kg (18 lb) of JA-2 propellant. The propulsion system uses an obturating case base with a semi-combustible cartridge wall.
It is carried in the gun tube by a three-piece aluminum sabot, which separates into three "petals" soon after the round leaves the gun tube. The M829 has a ballistic nose and five tail fins made of aluminum. Variants A diagram of an M829A2 round M829 The penetrator is carried by a sabot during its acceleration in the gun barrel. The round is specifically designed for the 120 mm M256 main gun on the Abrams M1A1 and M1A2 main battle tanks. Modeling was done at the Ballistic Research Laboratory at Aberdeen Proving Ground, which was incorporated into the Army Research Laboratory in 1992. This allows for you to instantly line the nock with the string you may reload without looking at your arrow.The M829 is an American armor-piercing fin-stabilized discarding sabot ( APFSDS) tank round. All wooden arrows are custom designed for indexing when grabbed at the nock. This also provides the specific weight desired for MAXIMUM PENETRATION. We design our Bodkin Arrows to have a slight taper towards the end of the bodkin that enables stronger stability on impact. Feather fletched for high performance out of our Odinson Archery bows. These bodkin arrowheads are fixed to our Odinson Archery Heavy Ramin Arrows. With modern testing, Odinson Archery has also found that these bodkin arrows STILL easily pass through modern day Kevlar designed to stop rounds like a 12 gauge slug! Designed to break through armor plating of medieval knights, the bodkin tips were considered the most deadly arrows in the battlefield. These arrows are the ARMOR PIERCING ROUNDS of the ancient world. No combative archer’s arsenal is complete without a set of ODINSON ARCHERY BODKIN ARROWS!
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