"Missing a Sabot Round?" Topic

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Editor in Chief Bill	23 Oct 2017 3:42 p.m. PST
The Pennsylvania State Police bomb squad was called after an armor-piercing tank round was found by a jogger… link
Saber6	23 Oct 2017 3:49 p.m. PST
someone put that back together.
14Bore	23 Oct 2017 3:58 p.m. PST
Has to be a dummy round
SouthernPhantom	23 Oct 2017 5:03 p.m. PST
Looks to be expended. I know the Pennsylvania ARNG has or had MBTs recently.
Fingerspitzengefuhl	23 Oct 2017 9:27 p.m. PST
There's a Jubilee clip holding the sabot onto the penetrator, so I'd suggest it's a training aide.
nickinsomerset	24 Oct 2017 12:02 a.m. PST
Looks like a training aide, looks like it has been dropped on it's end as the nose is bent! Tally Ho!
Major Mike	24 Oct 2017 5:56 a.m. PST
I would hope it is from a training round, but, the wind screen (the tip to you non-tankers) being slightly bent makes me lean towards an unfired service round. I don't think the training round would bend like that, but I have seen service rounds look like that when the loader is sloppy in storing or removing a round from the honeycomb. If it is from a service round, it could have a depleted uranium perpetrator. Bent tips usually required us to get out the radiological monitoring equipment, but, don't worry, there is no hazard to being around the round.
14Bore	24 Oct 2017 12:20 p.m. PST
Don't know what happened to it but when I was a kid my dad had a wooden dummy round for a naval gun, maybe 8 inch or so, my guess is it was around 2 feet high.
Garand	25 Oct 2017 9:33 a.m. PST
Is that an actual photo of the round that was found? It looks like it still has its sabot on? Damon.
Lion in the Stars	25 Oct 2017 7:50 p.m. PST
I think someone reassembled an expended sabot round, pretty sure the hose clamp around the middle isn't stock!

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