120mm Canister Round

[tomahawk6]

Pretty cool video showing an Abrams firing the canister round.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cgn1nhUEgo8&eurl=http://www.videosift.com/video/Slow-Mo-of-Shot-Gun-Tank-Shells-Amazing-Camera-Work

 

[PuckChaser]

Thats pretty sweet.

 

[wildman0101]

canister round,, i remember them
like a big shotgun shell for the tanks,,
good for taking out helicopters ...
maybe a jet if your lucky and get a good lead,,,
good for clearing ground
where infantry might be
all in all a nasty round
                              regards
                                scoty b

 

[tomahawk6]

A tanker on another forum stated that a gunner had fired one of these canister rounds in Iraq at an insurgent who was about to fire an RPG. Something about a pink mist...

 

[ArmyRick]

Didn't we have canister for the 76mm guns on the old cougars?

 

[tank recce]

We sure did. Usually fired two rounds per year at gun camp (total for the year, not per gunner!) as a demo.

Never really hit anything...  :

Not sure if it was true, but we were always told was that it was too short-ranged for an offensive weapon, but at 100yds the spread would cover another Cougar from nose to tail. If you saw hostile pedestrians crawling up onto your fireteam partner, it would scratch his back without the risk of penetration (or optics damage) that your co-ax would pose. 

 

[Eye In The Sky]

I'd bet catching that wad in the kisser wouldn't tickle either.