Yeah, but I think its highly likely at this point. I think it was just Turkey and Hungary making a fuss for the sake of looking like they are still “friends” with Russia, but in-reality, it was always going to happen. They also just want some things out of it, Like Turkey was hoping to use it as leverage to get into the EU for example.
So I reckon Sweden will join this year, and hopefully Ukraine sometime next year
The spin isn’t for accuracy, from how I understand it the rotation is needed to make sure there it has a consistent explosive effect on impact, gyro stabilisation affects impact consistency in a way that fins don’t, you only really want fins on a penetrating round not for explosive
The spin stabilises the shell during flight. HEAT is fin-stabilised because spin actually diminishes its performance. The rotation forces the explosive energy outwards but you want it to be as focussed as possible. For HE that doesn’t matter.
Yeah, most shell types only need aerodynamic stability which is why fins work well, but HESH benefits from being gyroscopically stabilised to give a more consistent interaction between the head an the target, the explosives would scatter more if it was only fin stabilised
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