Belesarius Posted August 16, 2015 Report Share Posted August 16, 2015 http://www.janes.com/article/53364/saudi-arabia-requests-usd500-million-ammo-replenishment Half a billion is a lot of ammo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Posted August 17, 2015 Report Share Posted August 17, 2015 Umm, Ok, I can follow it all except for the HEAT-T for the AMX-30 tanks. 105mm for M-60s sounds reasonable - they use the L7 (M-whatever in US service) but the French 105mm is, I thought completely different. And why would it be manufactured in the US of A? Interesting. B Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collimatrix Posted August 17, 2015 Report Share Posted August 17, 2015 I think that the French Modele F1 105mm may have dimensionally identical ammunition with L7/M68. According to Tony Williams, Sturgeon's nemees, that is the case. This doesn't mean that you can use all types of ammunition in both guns, if this is true. APDS and HE for the L7 would tumble when fired from the French weapon because the French weapon has a far slower rifling twist rate, and thus wouldn't stabilize it correctly. Firing Obus-G out of the L7 wouldn't work well either; it would spin too fast. However, fin-stabilized rounds with slip bands might well work in either gun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sturgeon Posted August 18, 2015 Report Share Posted August 18, 2015 Wrong, I'm his knee-mis. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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