sabot
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1. sabot - Noun
2. sabot - Verb
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A kind of wooden shoe worn by the peasantry in France, Belgium, Sweden, and some other European countries.
A thick, circular disk of wood, to which the cartridge bag and projectile are attached, in fixed ammunition for cannon; also, a piece of soft metal attached to a projectile to take the groove of the rifling.
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In the late 1950s, the Special Purpose Individual Weapon program sought to create flechette rounds to allow troops to fire sabot -type projectiles to give a short flight time and flat trajectory with a muzzle velocity of convert to convert.
Once the shell clears the barrel, the sabot is no longer needed and falls off in pieces.
Between 1941 and 1943, the British combined the two techniques in the armour-piercing discarding sabot (APDS) round.
Homopolar Railgun schematic main In this design a large current is passed through a metal sabot across sliding contacts that are fed from two rails.
Once the projectile clears the barrel, the sabot material falls away, leaving an unmarked, aerodynamic bullet to continue toward the target.
The name "sabot" (sah-BOW) is the French word for clog (a wooden shoe traditionally worn in some European countries).