1. sabot - Noun
2. sabot - Verb
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.
Source: Webster's dictionaryIn 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. Source: Internet
Once the shell clears the barrel, the sabot is no longer needed and falls off in pieces. Source: Internet
Between 1941 and 1943, the British combined the two techniques in the armour-piercing discarding sabot (APDS) round. Source: Internet
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. Source: Internet
Once the projectile clears the barrel, the sabot material falls away, leaving an unmarked, aerodynamic bullet to continue toward the target. Source: Internet
The name "sabot" (sah-BOW) is the French word for clog (a wooden shoe traditionally worn in some European countries). Source: Internet