Tungsten Alloy Applied for Armor Piercing Shell

Tungsten alloy is the most proper material for core material of armor piercing shell. Why tungsten alloy has a wide application as the core material in armor-piercing projectile? Tungsten alloy has high strength and good toughness, and is easy to be processed into cores with large length and slenderness ratio to achieve a large penetration depth and high penetration efficiency. Also, it has good terminal ballistic power and acceptable cost.

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Tungsten alloy armor piercing core with large slenderness ratio is mainly used in various types of tank shells, anti-tank gun armor-piercing shells, high-speed kinetic energy missiles, and tactical missiles. It has been reported that the 125mm tungsten alloy armor-piercing projectile used by the main battle tank has good penetration ability at present. Since the 1980s, the technical level of tungsten alloy materials for active armor piercing shell in China has basically kept pace with advanced countries, and the technological level for manufacturing large slenderness ratio and large length tungsten alloy cores has also basically kept pace with foreign countries.

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