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One major difference between the land- and sea-based variants is the choice of ammunition. Whereas naval Phalanx systems fire tungsten armor-piercing rounds, the C-RAM uses the 20 mm HEIT-SD ( High-Explosive Incendiary Tracer , Self-Destruct) ammunition, originally developed for the M163 Vulcan Air Defense System .
11 mm (.433+ caliber) 12 mm (.472+ caliber) 13 mm (.511+ caliber) See also. Table of handgun and rifle cartridges; By name. List of Winchester Center Fire cartridges;
Size comparison between 30×170mm and 5.56x45mm NATO. The 30 mm caliber is a range of autocannon ammunition. It includes the NATO standardized Swiss 30×173mm (STANAG 4624), the Soviet 30×155mmB, 30×165mm and 30×210mmB, the Czechoslovak 30×210mm, the Yugoslav 30×192mm, the British 30×113mmB, and the French 30×150mmB and 30×170mm cartridges.
Common rifle cartridges, from the largest .50 BMG to the smallest .22 Long Rifle with a $1 United States dollar bill in the background as a reference point.. This is a table of selected pistol/submachine gun and rifle/machine gun cartridges by common name.
The unit cost of the shell more than quadrupled, from US$45,000 in 1997 to $191,000 by 2006 (the Copperhead unit production price was about $30,000), reducing the projected buy from 8,500 to about 3,150. Program research-and-development costs had increased from $80 million to $400 million between 1997 and 2004, with total program costs ...
20 mm caliber is a specific size of popular autocannon ammunition. The dividing line between smaller-caliber weapons, commonly called " guns ", from larger-caliber " cannons " (e.g. machine gun vs. autocannon ), is conventionally taken to be the 20 mm round, the smallest caliber of autocannon.
Lack of a case also reduces the weight of the cartridge substantially, especially in small bore rifles. For example, the external-propellant caseless ammunition designed by Austrian inventor Hubert Usel (1926–2010) for the Voere VEC-91 weighs about one third as much as regular ammunition for the same caliber. [14] [15] [16]
30×173mm (STANAG 4624), 30 mm caliber; 35x228mm (STANAG 4516), 35mm caliber; Tank guns 105×617mmR (STANAG 4458) 120×570mmR (STANAG 4385) Artillery 105 mm (STANAG 4425)