I was looking back at old F-2 Sabre clips and remembered that at some point an API-T round was added.
However, that is incorrect, and historically the F-86F-2 couldn’t have had access to API-T until it was demilitarized.
COMBAT SUITABILITY TEST OF F-86F-2 AIRCRAFT WITH T-160 GUNS (1953)
Final Letter on Project No. APG/ADA/43-F-1, Dec 17 1953
Production of the API-T rounds began in September 1954, after testing of the F-86F-2 on the Korea was completed at May 1953. However, the F-100A Super Sabre which as x4 M39 cannons, was operational in the USAF at same time, and the T-160 was also renamed the M39 in late 1953. Also, all survived F-2 Sabres were demilitarized and handed over to the “Minute Men” aerobatics team on USAF, so there should be no “F-86F-2 with M39" 20mm cannons.
With the background that the FMC T-160 was prototype of the M39 20mm cannon, it is not appropriate to include the API-T rounds, which was produced after the name was renamed to M39, in the T-160 ammo belts.
