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L23A1 (120 mm APFSDS)
The L23A1 is a British, tungsten alloy-based, armour-piercing fin-stabilised, discarding-sabot (APFSDS) projectile assembly, which was was developed in the late 1970s and introduced in the the mid-1980s. The L23A1 replaced the earlier L15-series of armour-piercing discarding-sabot tracer (APDS-T) projectile assemblies, which had a tungsten-based penetrator core. The L23A1 itself would be replaced by the L26A1 depleted uranium alloy-based AP...
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