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Well, sloping does increase LOS thickness of the armor which our T-90S are an extreme example of, so it helps in that regard but if you are expecting a modern KE rod to ricochet after impacting a canted surface, then it ain't gonna happen.

Retarded sentence formation to be the likely cause. 530mm DOP against RHA inclined at 60 degrees and that too, from a distance of 2km is simply a stupendously unrealistic objective to set, something which even the Americans haven't managed to achieve as yet. And no, sloping does not affect...

530mm/cos60 - there's your mistake.

Fucking plebs.

Dude, seriously??!! May be, it will definitely reduce the drag.

A smaller rod would also ensure a reduced mass of the projectile, so you wouldn't need to pack as much propellant to attain higher initial muzzle velocity but the problem is, such a projectile would begin to lose the said velocity at a faster rate as well. So there is a downside to that as well.

Yeah, the problem is shorter stubbier projectiles tend to lose velocity at a more rapid rate compared to a longer thinner one, so the shorter rod might very well begin with a higher muzzle velocity but by the time they hit their targets, it will have been lost more of its ke. The same thing...

Nothing that I can think of. L: D ratio appears to be barely 20:1, perhaps even less, or at least that's what it seems like from this angle.

Ok, so how is this thing superior again?? I see none of the earlier weak spots have been rectified, same old wine in new packaging with a new label.

You do not seriously believe that, do you??!!

As well as reducing production cost as DU is significantly cheaper than WHAs.

Maybe. Or maybe he got the values all mixed up.

Well, wish I could share your optimism. Sure hope you're right though.

Everything is wrong!! First and foremost, we never got the 2A46M-1........period!! Why?? Because we never operated a tank that came with that gun!! And secondly, the EFC of the 2A46M-1 is stated to be ~1200 rounds, so I don't know where that poster pulled that 250 figure out from. Thirdly, he...

800 MPa, even the Germans haven't managed to do that yet as their latest production model Rheinmetall L/55 maxes out at ~750 MPa. I bet this poster had the chamber pressure confused with the autofrettage pressure.

That's Indian engineering at display I guess.

That would be the 2A46M, which we had aquired the license for equipping our T-72M1s, well at least as far as I can tell.

I doubt that, cause even 2A46M hurl a BM42M Mango at a muzzle velocity of ~1750 m/sec.

I don't think so, we'd have heard something if it were true.

It's the same old 2A46M, nothing more nothing less, and certainly nothing to talk about.