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Depleted uranium armor (Frontpage ingress image)
An ammunition specialist carries a 105mm armor- piercing round to be used in an M-1 Abrams main battle tank during Operation Desert Shield in 1991. The object on the nose of the round is a sabot, a cover that protects and stabilizes the round's needle-like depleted uranium penetrator, then falls away as the projectile leaves the gun barrel.

Publiseringsdato: 22. mai, 2007

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