Pakistan is one of those lucky countries which manufactures enough weapons for its own needs. Pakistan Ordnance Factories play a significant role in this regard. These include a variety of weapons made especially for tanks.
A special type of superior ammunition is used to destroy armored vehicles and tanks.
Pakistan Ordnance Factories manufactures APFSDS projectiles of various calibers. Today’s article will talk about the 125 mm projectile which is most used by Pakistan Army.
The projectile usually consists of a tungsten rod, which destroys the target armor with its kinetic energy obtained at lightning speed.
Now let’s talk about this projectile and its features
It is a double piece projectile with a tungsten penetrator rod in one part and a charge in the other which contains ammo. This projectile can be fired from Pakistan’s Al Khalid tank, Ukrainian T80 and 84 Polish pt91 and other Chinese tanks 125 mm smooth bore gun.
Talking about its basic features, the total weight of these two parts is up to 21 kg. It contains up to six kilograms of ammunition while the penetrator rod weighs just over seven kilograms.
The full round is three and a half feet long and the penetrator rod is about 22 inches long. At a range of two kilometers, it is 460 millimeters against targets equipped with projectile explosive reactive armor, which gives an estimate of approximately 650 millimeters. Up to meters
RHA (rolled homogeneous armor) Can penetrate after being fired, the projectile emanates from the gun barrel at a speed of 1730 meters per second, which is the same speed as the Mac Five, which makes it a projectile with a hypersonic missile velocity.
This projectile can be seen in the picture below
Pakistan Air Force spokesman
