It provides greater lethality and longer range and shorter flight, compared to conventional HEAT rounds. This multi-purpose HEAT round is type classified as an M830 replacement. The weight of the HE round is 19 kg, muzzle velocity (L44) is 950 m’/sec and with the L55 – 1,100 m’/sec. Fuse setting is performed automatically by the fire control system. The full caliber warhead is equipped with a time fuse which also has a percussion function which can be activated with or without delay to ensure effective target penetration. It is designed to engage soft and semi-hard targets, uses high explosive warhead containing steel and heavy metal fragmentation case. The HE round is intended primarily for dealing with long range anti-tank weapons. This round serves as a companion to the kinetic energy M829 series anti-tank munition.Ī new High Explosive service round, currently under development at Rheinmetall will be a successor to the DM12A2 currently in service. M830 High Explosive Anti-Tank Tracer (HEAT-T) is the service round for the smoothbore 120mm tank gun, used by the US Army M-1A2.
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