Labels:text | screenshot | font | letter | document OCR: WEAPON & ARTILLERY GLOSSARY DPICM Short for dual-purpose, improved conventional munitions. This is an artillery round that contains many small submunitions or bomblets that are capable of defeating the thin armour located on top of armoured vehicles as well as being effective against personnel and other "soft" targets. HEAT Short for high explosive antitank, a round that depends on a shaped charge explosion to penetrate an armoured vehicle's armour. Because the round contains high explosive, it has a secondary role as an antimaterial round. A typical muzzle velocity might be 1100 metres per second, with a penetration of over 150 mm in reactive armour. It is, however, much more effective against APC's than tanks, for which SABOT or TOW ammunition is more appropriate. SABOT SABOT is short for armour-piercing fin-stabilised discarding sabot (APFSDS). The round consists of a small tungsten alloy or depleted uranium penetrator that has a diameter smaller than the diameter of the gun tube. To compensate for this , the penetrator is seated in a boot that is the same diameter as the gun. This boot, called the SABOT, falls away after the round leaves the gun, leaving the penetrator to continue to the target. The SABOT round has a very effective armour penetration out to 2500 metres. More useful against tank armour than a HEAT round. SMOKE Smoke is very usefully generated in battle in order to obscure the location of vehicles from the enemy. There are three ways in which smoke can be produced in the battlefield. M-1 tanks and M-2 Bradleys have smoke grenade launchers on the sides of the turret. These can be fired forwards, giving a short- lived smoke-screen. The same vehicles can also produce engine exhaust smoke, which produces a smoke screen from the vehicle's rear, and which will move with the vehicle if it is in motion. Artillery smoke is very useful when called in just before an attack on an enemy position, to obscure you from their view. TOW Short for tube-launched, optically-tracked, wire guided antitank guided missile. The TOW is the U.S. Army's current heavy antitank guided missile with a range of nearly 4000 metres. The guidance system provides a high probability of hitting a tank-sized target out to its maximum range. A TOW missile can only be launched from a static vehicle. 19
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