Armor-piercing projectiles use the hardness and shape of the projectile material plus the kinetic energy transferred by the charge during shooting to penetrate the surface to achieve the destructive effect when in contact with a hard target. In addition to being used for anti-tanks, armor-piercing bullets can also be used against other solid targets or used on bombs to attack the protective armor of warships.
The shape of early armor-piercing projectile warheads was a simple tapered streamline shape, which was not well used in many aspects. Later, as the shooting distance increased, the simple streamlined shape could no longer guarantee the shooting accuracy of the warhead. In order to stabilize the warhead, For the ballistics, a tungsten rod is used as the component to make a hood, which is used at the front end of the warhead to have a greater chance of penetrating the armor.
