30mm Rarden APDS

[ken68]

Hi put this APDS rarden back together , minus the steel core

cheers ken

[SG500]

Nice job ken.
Is that a blue prac one that's been painted black or a service black one? The profile looks more like the prac version.
Dave.

[ken68]

Hi Thanks Dave it is a prac one but the blue was almost gone even on cleaning the plastic seemed to hold onto a real dark color ? can it be painted blue as i did'nt know if the plastic is blue to start with or painted ,i seen one with this profile on a web site showing different 30mm 20mm cannon and there was a black one the same but unfired drive band .
its the first ive had of this type , what is the service black one , this is the picture i went with, thought it was the same ?

cheers ken

Nice job ken.
Is that a blue prac one that's been painted black or a service black one? The profile looks more like the prac version.
Dave.

[harley]

The black one is an armour piercing disposable sabboted round

[SG500]

Hi Thanks Dave it is a prac one but the blue was almost gone even on cleaning the plastic seemed to hold onto a real dark color ? can it be painted blue as i did'nt know if the plastic is blue to start with or painted ,i seen one with this profile on a web site showing different 30mm 20mm cannon and there was a black one the same but unfired drive band .
its the first ive had of this type , what is the service black one , this is the picture i went with, thought it was the same ?

cheers ken

Ken the service L15 A1 practice APDS rounds have blue sabots but some of the experimental pre adoption rounds had black sabots.
The L15 A1 practice APDS projectile has a tubular body held, prior to leaving the muzzle in a sabot and able to reach a muzzle velocity of about 4290 f/s. The tubular projectile is made of steel and coned at the front with a length of 70mm. The rear of the tube is grooved and holds the tracer composition. The sabot is 30.7mm in diameter and has 4 vertical slots to enable it to break up. Total projectile weight is 165 grams.
Hope this helps.
Dave.

[ken68]

Yes thats great quite a muzzle velocity do you know the penetration is on normal armour steel plate /could this make trouble for a T72 ? BMP armoured personel carrier ?

cheers for the help

ken

[SG500]

Yes thats great quite a muzzle velocity do you know the penetration is on normal armour steel plate /could this make trouble for a T72 ? BMP armoured personel carrier ?

cheers for the help

ken

Ken that's the figure for the prac apds so the armour penetration is going to be blow all. I don't know the info for the L14 service tungsten cored APDS.
Dave.

[smle2009]

This may be of some use.
We are up to the L15A5 with the reduced range DS now
And by the way Ken,hats off to you mate for getting one of these back together,I have tried it so many times and they have all ended up the top of the garden,well they are discarding sabots!

Cheers
Tony

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[Charlie]

Never known of a red DSRR could be an exp.?
C.

[ken68]

i am sure ive herd you speak of the reduced range DS Tony , thanks for this one mate it didnt want to play ball but i kept at it . thats the pusher assembly ive got in the picture , when i cleaned up the sabots they went really dark for some reason (hence the paint job) , can i clean your garden up free of charge of course lol

cheers ken

This may be of some use.
We are up to the L15A5 with the reduced range DS now
And by the way Ken,hats off to you mate for getting one of these back together,I have tried it so many times and they have all ended up the top of the garden,well they are discarding sabots!

Cheers
Tony

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