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Type 73 APFSDS
The Type 73 APFSDS-T is a 100 mm armour-piercing fin-stabilised tracer (APFSDS-T) fixed round, its official Chinese designation unknown. The Type 73 round comprises an APFSDS-T projectile assembly and a brass-cased charge system. The former would would seem to be an adapted or scaled down version of the Russian 3BM6 (3БМ6) APFSDS-T projectile, which was developed for the U-5TS (У-5ТС) 115 mm smoothbore tank gun. The round is thought to be f...
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