Thts a lot of bullshit..let me explain how:
I never said said a rifled gun can't fire sabots or stabilised rounds.. I said modern rounds Dnt need a rifled gun ... Infact a rifled gun only screws the effectiveness of finned rounds and also itself... By not only decreasing its life but also the performance of the round.. You don't want a stablised finned sabot etc spinning ?lmao.. While it's the opposite n smoothbores... !!! Which have longer ranger,more muzzle velocity and accuracy thanks to modern ammo.. Tht Dnt need a rifled gun with its cons to be stablised.. Hence no problem with accuracy as ur pal was parroting..
lets burst your BS,shall we????
modern rounds???what kind of????every round is gun specific.and every rounds tank fire,it "Tear and wear" the gun.but in Rifled Gun,it occurs more.but thanks to new techs,its been reduced significantly.APFSDS and other rounds doesn't depend on Rifling,but HESH is.this particular round has been in use in multiple frontline tanks,like Challenger-2,Leopard C1 and Arjun.plus,modern tech enable long gun life...see this.....
The barrel is 55 calibres long (L55) and is made of
electro-slag refined (ESR) steel. The bore and chamber are electro-plated with chromium to give a barrel life of 400
effective full charges.
L30 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
according to DRDO,Arjun's gun's barrel life is 500 EFC .
120 Millimetre MBT Arjun Armament System
infact,longest tank kill was made by Challenger-1 tank using its Rifled gun and HESH ammo in 1991.Smoothbore can't have that kind of accuracy.only plus point of smoothbore is it is easy to maintain and the ammo is cheap and can be procured from anywhere(one of the major reason why so many frontline tanks use it.you don't have to develop specialized ammo)
2nd) no the basic mk1 can't ... Even the improved Arjun mk2 is facing smokey chamber issues while firing a missile./. And yes no structural change is there... If it was so hunky dory it wouldn't be a problem
please spare us from your BS..Arjun Mk-1 can fire missile.as well as Mk-II can.some modifications will be made about smokey chamber.I know you're getting a "H@rd on" reading that news,but its a minor problem...
An improved version of the same tank facing a problem resolved in the basic version sounds logical ????..And yes I did provide the sources...
BS
Heck it's gun is obsolete... Again I provided the link with data..
3) HESH is obsolete it was obsolete even in the 80s.. Unless you want to destroy apartment/buildings... Coz it sucks even against fortified positions... Heck do take a look at the ones in indian army service.. Even those aren't even worth crap.. Compared to other HESH crap rounds tht nobody uses today!!!!!!!!!
again why do Abrams,lecrecs,Leo's,AKs,t90s,t84s etc use the smoothbore if it's inferior to a rifled gun???
P.S: even the rounds in service with indian army are ... Read the links I posted..
you didn't post anything...read my post above.British Army,Indian Army even US Army uses it along with other armies.US Army calls it HEP Rounds.but they use it for Arty.it has been seen for several occasions that lack of HESH has paid its cost dearly.
The optimised explosive composition of HESH defeats rolled homogenous armour plate detaching a scab of about 9 kg mass moving with a velocity of 100 to 120 m/s. Besides the scabbing effect, blast and shock imparts a tremendous jolt to the enemy tank stripping off explosive reactive armour and incapacitating the crew severely, thereby affecting their fighting capabilities.
120 Millimetre MBT Arjun Armament System