30 mm caliber

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30 × 173 mm cartridges
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The 30 mm caliber is a certain size of ammunition for automatic cannons that is widely used around the world. Examples of this type of ammunition are the 30 × 173 mm NATO , the 30 × 113 mm B, and the Soviet 30 × 165 mm cartridge .

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U-anchor of an armor-piercing DU projectile caliber 30 mm (30 × 173 mm)

30mm ammunition is usually not used against people, but rather against material targets. Ammunition of this size can also be used successfully against armored vehicles and bunkers .

The Russian armed forces put their 30mm weapons in a wide variety of aircraft ( Su-25 ), helicopters ( Mi-24 , Mi-28 , Ka-50 ) and tanks ( BMP-2 , BMP-3 , BTR-90 ) a. Almost all of the modern anti-aircraft guns used by Russia also use 30 mm caliber. The United States Armed Forces use 30mm cannons in their A-10 Thunderbolt II and AH-64 Apache helicopters. It was also intended for the Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle , but the project ended prematurely.

Types of 30mm ammunition

30 mm can be roughly divided into three types: armor-piercing ammunition (AP, English for armor piercing ), HE shells (HE, for English high explosive ) and practice ammunition. The AP and HE ammunition usually also have the fire generating properties of incendiary ammunition .

Examples of weapons with 30mm ammunition

30 × 113 mm ammunition is loaded into an AH-64D Apache Longbow

30 × 90 mm RB

30 × 92 mm RB

  • 30mm type 2 cannon ( Japan , World War II)

30 × 113 mm w

30 × 114 mm

  • Ho-155 cannon (Japan, World War II)

30 × 122 mm

  • Type 5 30mm cannon (Japan, World War II)

30 × 150 mm w

30 × 155 mm wide

30 × 165 mm

30 × 170 mm

30 × 173 mm

30 × 184 mm w

  • MK 101 (German Empire, Second World War)
  • MK 103 (German Empire, Second World War)

30 × 210 mm wide

30 × 250 mm caseless

  • RMK 30 , recoilless revolver cannon (Germany)

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