> Discarding Sabot / Kinetic Energy rounds (KE for short) -- 50 lbs of depleted-uranium darts flying at Mach 1.6 destroys a lot of things, Er, they have a muzz

> Discarding Sabot / Kinetic Energy rounds (KE for short) -- 50 lbs of depleted-uranium darts flying at Mach 1.6 destroys a lot of things, Er, they have a muzzle velocity in the range of 1.6 km/s or 1600 m/s, about Mach 5. As an aside, AFAIK the Rheinmetall 120mm used on the M1 and Leo2 tanks only have sabots and HEAT shells, no canister rounds or plain HE.