1 Department of Political Science and International Relations, Research Center in Political Science, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal 2 Department of History, California State University San ...

(Photo Credit: Spc. Ryan Tatum / Wikimedia Commons / Public Domain) The M829A1, known as the “Silver Bullet,” is an armor-piercing fin-stabilized discarding sabot (APFSDS) round. It has a long-rod, ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The 1991 Persian Gulf War against Iraq saw the M829A1 depleted-uranium round used by M1A1s against Iraqi T-72s with devastating effect. A tank is a fast-moving ...

Amazingly, the M829A1 has a flat, laser-like trajectory out to 3,600 meters, meaning it does not incur ballistic drop due to gravity over a distance of two miles. That gives one an idea of the ...

In particular, the ammunition load of the US Abrams tank can include M829A1 munitions capable of piercing from 650 mm to 700 mm of the homogenous armor at a distance of 2 km, according to various ...

Previous assignments include project officer for the M900 105mm tank munition, where he was the lead engineer in charge of fielding the "Silver Bullet" of Desert Storm, the M829A1 120mm round for ...

With the arrival of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles on British TV screens, it's clearly time to consider just how to deal with murderous and very determined androids from the future ...