So super fucking late but re: tank design... WWII tanks still operated largely on the principles of steel plates for armor, and the "fanciest" you got was spaced armor and sloping. All shit that you can mentally approximate the effectiveness of without a physics/chemistry degree.
Nowadays we use bullshit ceramics and reactive armor and stuff. Some of which actually works better for direct, straight-on hits than angled "effective thickness" hits.

Comparing a modern MBT to WWII tanks is just not something you can really do any more. I mean, fuck, the M18 Hellcat had paper-thin armor and was ludicrously fast at the time, boasting a top speed of *50 mph* and the Germans constantly thought we had more of them than we did because they'd dance between flanks with that speed. The M1 Abrams, meanwhile, has a top speed of like 40-45 mph, and is *heavily armored*.

And that's before you consider the cannons- modern tanks are pretty much all smoothbore rather than rifled.

yeah, modern tanks have solved almost every compromise WWII era had to make

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if i know correctly the abrams is smoothbore because it messes with the type of round

but i think the t72 or something is rifled

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It's because you can fire missiles out of a smoothbore

that too

like literally

That's what caused the switch

all the further development of tank ammo was to compensate for or take advantage of the lack of rifling.

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you know what I mean

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end laces, tbh, they're obsolete

it's the kinetic energy round

you can't spin them

the sabot

it's like a rocket

with stabilizing fins

ah, fin stabilization. nothing else like it

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APFSDS armor piercing fin stabilized discarding sabot

but it's much better up to around 700 meters than heat

and higher velocity

Well, HEAT rounds' advantage was more that they were only reliant on the gun for accuracy, their pen was pretty much fixed to the ammo itself.

yes but they just aren't good enough against modern armor which is why they needed a better gun

otherwise they would get too heavy

Oh of course, they're a relic from the steel plate days

well they're not terrible

russians have a 1 shot that goes 900-1000 mm man portable

but too big and heavy low velocity and less rounds

better to use them just infantry and bunkers

Just like HESH rounds, which were pretty much entirely based on spalling the fuck out of the crew rather than trying to go through with anything.

as well as being multi purpost

Though those might be a good "setup" round against modern armor