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== APFSDS versus HVAP == | == APFSDS versus HVAP == | ||
{{Quote|Here. You may need these. High velocity, armor-piercing. They'll take the hat off an Elite at two thousand yards. And they ain't cheap.|[[Jun-A266]]}} | {{Quote|Here. You may need these. High velocity, armor-piercing. They'll take the hat off an Elite at two thousand yards. And they ain't cheap.|[[Jun-A266]]}} | ||
This quote from Jun suggests that this model of sniper rifle does not fire the Armour Piercing Fin Stabilised Discarding Sabot rounds fired by the rest of the SRS series, but High Velocity Armour Piercing (or Armour-Piercing, Composite Rigid if you're British) rounds instead. This interpretation is supported by the fact that in the levels ''[[Noble Actual]]'' and ''[[Nightfall]]'', and in the [[Halo: Reach Video Games Awards Trailer]], Jun is seen with conventional, full-bore rounds in his magazines instead of sabot rounds: HVAP rounds are full-bore rounds consisting of a core of a high-density hard material surrounded by a full-bore shell of a lighter material (e.g. an aluminium alloy), as opposed to APFSDS rounds, which are sub-calibre dart-like projectiles with breakaway sabots. Furthermore, HVAP rounds lose velocity and accuracy at long ranges, explaining Jun's "they'll take the hat off an Elite at two thousand yards", which is roughly 1800 metres, considerably less than the 2300 metre ranges of the APFSDS-firing SRS 99C-S2 and SRS 99D-S2 rifles. Therefore, I suggest we change the article to reflect this, and also the [[14.5x114mm]] article to show that there are different types of that size of round.--[[User talk:The All-knowing Sith'ari|The All-knowing Sith'ari]] 16:31, 12 May 2011 (EDT) | This quote from Jun suggests that this model of sniper rifle does not fire the Armour Piercing Fin Stabilised Discarding Sabot rounds fired by the rest of the SRS series, but High Velocity Armour Piercing (or Armour-Piercing, Composite Rigid if you're British) rounds instead. This interpretation is supported by the fact that in the levels ''[[Noble Actual]]'' and ''[[Nightfall]]'', and in the [[Halo: Reach Video Games Awards Trailer]], Jun is seen with conventional, full-bore rounds in his magazines instead of sabot rounds: HVAP rounds are full-bore rounds consisting of a core of a high-density hard material surrounded by a full-bore shell of a lighter material (e.g. an aluminium alloy), as opposed to APFSDS rounds, which are sub-calibre dart-like projectiles with breakaway sabots. Furthermore, HVAP rounds lose velocity and accuracy at long ranges, explaining Jun's "they'll take the hat off an Elite at two thousand yards", which is roughly 1800 metres, considerably less than the 2300 metre ranges of the APFSDS-firing SRS 99C-S2 and SRS 99D-S2 rifles. Therefore, I suggest we change the article to reflect this, and also the [[14.5x114mm]] article to show that there are different types of that size of round.--[[User talk:The All-knowing Sith'ari|The All-knowing Sith'ari]] 16:31, 12 May 2011 (EDT) | ||