That’s probably enough to pierce the frontal armor on a mid-generation Russian T-72 tank. ![]() The Taiwanese army, which fires DM63s from the 105-millimeter guns on its CM-11 tanks, pegs the maximum penetration at 600 millimeters, presumably at typical combat ranges between 1,000 and 2,000 yards. How much armor a DM63/M426 can penetrate depends on the range and angle to the target. The powder explodes, the shell blasts from the gun barrel, the sabot flies off and the dart lances toward its target like a hypersonic needle. They’re sabot-discarding rounds-that is, shells containing a tungsten dart in a kind of shoe. The DM63 is a German copy of Elbit’s M426. And that’s why it’s not inconceivable that the transfer also included the same DM63 ammunition that armed the tanks when they were in Slovenian army service. There’s a good chance that the Israeli government quietly signed off on the M-55S deal. ![]() The German government last fall essentially financed the transfer to Ukraine of 28 M55Ss, by giving the Slovenian government dozens of military trucks in exchange.
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