"Missing a Sabot Round?" Topic
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 Editor in Chief Bill   | 23 Oct 2017 2:42 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 2:49 p.m. PST |
someone put that back together. |
| 14Bore | 23 Oct 2017 2:58 p.m. PST |
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| SouthernPhantom | 23 Oct 2017 4:03 p.m. PST |
Looks to be expended. I know the Pennsylvania ARNG has or had MBTs recently. |
| Fingerspitzengefuhl | 23 Oct 2017 8:27 p.m. PST |
There's a Jubilee clip holding the sabot onto the penetrator, so I'd suggest it's a training aide. |
| nickinsomerset | 23 Oct 2017 11:02 p.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 4:56 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 11:20 a.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 8:33 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 6:50 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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