125 mm HIGH EXPLOSIVE ANTI TANK
	This is another separate loading ammunition which is intended for use against armored targets and fired with 2A46M tank gun fitted to T-72 MBT. It is automatically loaded into the breech followed by a semi-combustible cartridge case. The projectile has a steel body encircled by two driving bands and its front carries a standoff spike inside which is a piezoelectric contact sensor

connected by an internal wire to a base-mounted fuze. This ammunition can penetrate 550 mm of Rolled Homogenous Armour (RHA) at normal angle or 273 mm at an angle of 60 deg. to the normal. This type of ammunition is produced in other calibers such as 122 mm.

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