Ultimate USSR Tank Shells Vol.1

This pack includes 6 detailed 125MM USSR Tank shells, including a propellant charge. With PBR textures as well.

1. 3BM-42M

Lekalo (3BM-42M projectile; 3BM-44 projectile assembly)Svinets-1. A brand new round with extremely high elongation tungsten alloy penetrator, utilizing a 4-petal finned composite sabot with two areas of contact, and subcaliber stabilizing fins. This round has a total length of 740mm and so does not fit in traditional T-72 autoloaders. The autoloader upgrade is straightforward and is assumed to have been carried out on newly built T-90 tanks that are therefore compatible with this round.

1. BM-9

3VBM-3 (3BM-9 projectile; 3BM-10 projectile assembly)The first APFSDS round fielded for the 125mm gun. Represents a scaled-up version of 115mm 3BM-6 APFSDS round with the redesigned tail assembly (5 fins instead of 6 on the 115mm round). The penetrator is made of maraging steel so has a rather modest penetration potential. This, as well as unsatisfactory performance on slanted impacts, delegated the round to practice and trials use; this was also the round initially supplied with the export T-72s and license-produced in several countries.

1. BM-26

3VBM-11 (3BM-26 projectile; 3BM-27 projectile assembly) (DOI 1983)Research topic Nadezhda initiated 1977. The last projectile to follow the BM-12 design principle of a maraging steel body with a small heavy alloy slug to enhance penetration and using steel ring-shaped sabot. Compared to BM-22, reconfigured the AP cap and repositioned the W-C insert to the rear of the projectile body to solve the problems the earlier rounds had with slanted impacts (high ricochet probability). It was also the first round whose development specifically aimed at improving performance against laminate armor arrays present on newly emerging threat armor.

1. BK-14M

This is the Russian 125mm BK-14 (БК-14), a High-Explosive Anti-Tank Fin-Stabilised with Tracer (HEAT-FS-T), setback-armed, impact-fired, piezo-electric initiated, Point-Initiated Base-Detonating (PIBD) projectile, the BK-14M being the same projectile except with a copper Shaped-Charge (SC) cone, intended to defeat armoured targets.

1. OF-19

This is the Russian 125mm OF19 (ОФ19), a high-explosive fragmentation (HE-Frag), fin-stabilised projectile using the OF22 cartridge. In common with the rest of the 125mm ammunition range, the OF19 is a separate loading munition. It is automatically loaded into the breech followed by a semi-combustible propellant case.

1. 4Zh-40

This is the Russian Zh40 (Ж40), a low-explosive projectile propellant charge used with 125mm projectiles entering service in 1962. In common with the 125mm ammunition range, the 125mm APFSDS rounds are all separate loading munitions.