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KEW-A1

Projectile  
United States of America

The KEW-A1 is a 120 mm armour-piercing fin-stabilised discarding-sabot tracer (APFSDS-T) tank gun round. The KEW-A1 was developed as a tungsten alloy alternative to the early M829 series, which use depleted uranium alloy-based subprojectiles. The KEW-A1 round is based on the German-developed DM43A1 APFSDS-T round, modified to local (US) safety requirements. The KEW-A1 can also be used by other 120 mm smoothbore tank guns that are chamber...

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