АПАМ/РАКЕФЕТ

вот, зашел на сайт ИМИ и что там есть:

APAM - Antipersonnel / Anti-Materiel Tank Round

March 15, 2001



Now fielded and battle proven by Israel Defense Forces (IDF), the APAM (Antipersonnel/Anti-materiel) provides the MBT with a rapid and lethal direct fire capability to support assaulting infantry and for the first time defeating anti-tank squads.

The APAM constitutes the ultimate solution to the significant threat to tanks from anti-tank squads, a tank based solution that did not exist till now.

In conjunction with its anti-materiel capabilities as an accurate HE round, the APAM can be considered for use as the first tank round for the MBT, especially for rapid deployment light tanks.

All antipersonnel ammunition is totally dependent on very accurate range setting. However, range measurement to such flat targets is an extremely difficult and inaccurate task. The new generation APAM round provides the perfect solution against soft ground targets, and especially AT squads.

The new round utilizes the proven concept of antipersonnel cargo munitions based on controlled fragmentation. The APAM deploys its lethal charges while in horizontal flight, creating a large lethal area, with enough length to cover and compensate for range measurement errors.

APAM deploys cylinder shaped submunitions at defined intervals to assure full lethal coverage of the target. The explosions, and the hail of pre-fragmented shrapnel they generate, leave no shelter to any soft target caught around and below it. Each fragment is shaped to have enough kinetic energy to penetrate conventional body armor, or other materials.

Infantry and anti-tank squads, who are dug in or behind cover, are fully exposed to APAM. Such ammunition is designed to engage targets at all the relevant of armor combat, with high hit and kill probability as it covers an optimal area on the ground, creating a long lethal area, which eliminates the requirement for accurate range measurement to flat targets. From above, or from the side, these targets are much more vulnerable as their larger body areas are unprotected and exposed to shrapnel.

Being an accurate HE round, the APAM can defeat standard infantry bunkers as well as IFVs and other targets.

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IMI Introduces APAM with Unique Bunker Buster Capabilities

February 26, 2003

APAM - Anti-Personnel/Anti-Materiel Tank Round Penetrates Typical Concrete Walls, Creating Passageways for Soldiers in Urban Combat

In response to the rapid changes in emerging operational requirements, IMI (Israel Military Industries Ltd.) is introducing APAM - a unique off-the-shelf battle-proven solution for the MGS armored fighting vehicle.

New Level of Tank Performance - Overcoming Enemy Infantry and Attack Helicopters, Enabling Destruction of Targets other than Enemy Tanks

The critical need to provide greater survivability to tanks was the driving force leading to the development of APAM. This extremely powerful multi-purpose anti-personnel/anti-materiel tank round overcomes the most challenging modern threats: anti-tank missile squads and attack helicopters, as well as protected/ unprotected mobile platforms and fixed positions.

Lethal Area - 50 m long X 20 m wide. No Place to Hide

APAM contains 6 submunitions, which explode one after the other in rapid sequence, leaving enemy infantry forces with no place to hide even if they are behind ground slopes, in trenches and other concealed areas. The time fuze receives the exact timing from the tank’s FCS (fire control system), with the expulsion time derived from the FCS’ range measurements.

Bunker Buster/Clearing the Way for Friendly Forces

As a heavy, multi-purpose round, APAM penetrates APC armor and is able to put a hole in typical concrete walls, creating pathways for the infantry soldiers. It also defeats earth and timber bunker walls.



да, память меня с площадью поражения подвела

я извиняюсь, а как такой сорт снарядов называется по-русски?

Вот чертежик из немецкого патента за 86 год за номером DE3615267: Ничего не напоминает ;)?