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Old March 1st, 2015, 03:23 PM

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Default Re: Current Finnish OOB - some notes for discussion

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Originally Posted by PvtJoker View Post
And now for the AFV notes:
125mm D-81 penetrations assume Soviet domestic standard rounds. The HEAT numbers are too high (BK-14M HEAT was the best exported from the USSR). Finland also never purchased new HEAT rounds for the gun in the 1990s but continued to use the BK-14M.
A friend of mine who was a T-72 gunner confirmed, the older round (1986) was the one that matches the HEAT penetration. So 125mm D81T 88 (weapon #215) should be replaced with D81T 86 (#102).

Although they were mentioned that if the things go international then there will be better ammunition available but possibilities didn't get more specific than that.
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