Sabot for sub-calibre projectile

摘要

A sabot has a forwardly open air compartment with an inturned lip. The compartment is pref. cup-shaped, most pref. tulip-shaped, and has borings through its wall and apertures spaced around the peripheral region of the lip. The compartment is in a front zone of the sabot, and radial through-borings in the lip reduce drag forces acting on the base of the compartment to permit neat and unimpeded separation of sabot segments from the projectile after leaving the barrel, The borings and free cross-sections reduce air resistance so that load on the connection zone between the rear zone and compartment is reduced and the connection zone can be of smaller diameter, this reduces wt.