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KNDS France qualifies its latest 120 mm tank ammunition for Leopard 2 use

20/11/202421/11/2024 Paolo Valpolini Alcochete, APFSDS, KNDS, Leclerc, Leopard 2, SHARD

Now a single company, KNDS aims at becoming a one-stop-shop for its MBT customers, hence the recent tests carried out

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Nexter qualifies the new SHARD 120mm APFSDS tank ammunition

29/02/202429/02/2024 Paolo Valpolini 120 mm, APFSDS, KNDS, Nexter, SHARD

29 February 2024 – Nexter, company of KNDS achieved late 2023 the qualification of its new generation A leap-ahead in

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PT Pindad and Nexter to cooperate for the supply of 120mm ammunition to the Indonesian Army

19/06/202219/06/2022 Paolo Valpolini 120 mm, APFSDS, DGA, Eurosatory 2022, Nexter, PT Pindad, SHARD

Tuesday, 14th June 2022 – During Eurosatory exhibition in Paris, PT Pindad and Nexter agreed to cooperate for the supply of

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Nexter 120 mm SHARD: towards tailored APFSDS solutions

20/05/202120/05/2021 Paolo Valpolini APFSDS, Nexter, SHARD

By Paolo Valpolini When main battle tanks (MBTs) armour was made of rolled homogeneous armour (RHA) comparing armour piercing (AP)

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More on Rheinmetall tank guns and ammunition evolution

22/03/202122/03/2021 Paolo Valpolini 120 mm, 130 mm, APFSDS, DM73, KE2020Neo, L55A1, Leopard 2A7, Rheinmetall, tank gun

By Paolo Valpolini Following the recent briefing by Christoph Henselmann, Senior Vice-President and Head of Portfolio Tank Main Armament on

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120 SHARD®: the new generation of anti-tank ammunition

09/03/202109/03/2021 Paolo Valpolini 120 Shard, APFSDS, Nexter, tank ammunition

9th of March, 2021 – Nexter Munitions demonstrates its capability for innovation by presenting the 120 SHARD® ammunition, a high-performance

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What future for tank guns? The Rheinmetall view

05/03/202105/03/2021 Paolo Valpolini 120 mm, 130 mm, APFSDS, autoloader, MGCS, Rheinmetall, tank gun

By Paolo Valpolini While the appearance of the Russian T-14 Armata tank in the 2015 May Parade has definitely triggered

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New 120 mm gun and ammunition; a 20% performance increase in the coming years

05/03/202115/04/2023 Paolo Valpolini 120 mm, APFSDS, DM73, KE2020Neo, Lepard 2A7V, Rheinmetall

While Rheinmetall’s new 120 mm smoothbore gun, known as L55A1, is already available and is in series production for Germany,

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Why 130 mm and not a bigger calibre?

05/03/202111/04/2025 Paolo Valpolini 130 mm, APFSDS, MGCS, Rheinmetall

While in the interim Rheinmetall aims at improving 120 mm performances, looking further ahead in 2016 the company exhibited  in

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