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century. However, to reliably penetrate the thick armor of modern armored vehicles, many modern tank guns have reverted to smoothbore designs. These fire a very long, thin kinetic-energy projectile, too long in relation to its diameter to develop the necessary spin rate through rifling. Instead, kinetic energy rounds are produced as fin-stabilized darts. Not only does this reduce the time and expense of producing rifled

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