Originally posted by Geronimo
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Osmium is not used in tank rounds, that I'm aware, that was just correcting Oerdin's nonsense that DU was 'the densest metal known to man'.
Challengers can't use other western shells because they've got different guns, rifled rather than the smoothbore Rheinmetall guns found in the M1 and Leopard 2. They also have three -piece ammo, which combined with the rifled barrels means that the saboted ammo they can use is really limited compared to the single-piece of the Rheinmetall gun. They also can't shoot HEAT projectiles.
For all of this (among other reasons), they will be switching to smoothbores as well in future.
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