M68A1 (105 mm)

Description

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Vehicles equipped with this weapon

• CM11
• M1 Abrams
• IPM1

General info

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Available ammunition

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Penetration statistics
Ammunition	Type of warhead	Penetration @ 0° Angle of Attack (mm)
		10 m	100 m	500 m	1,000 m	1,500 m	2,000 m
M735	APFSDS	353	350	342	333	322	312
M774	APFSDS	357	355	347	338	328	319
DM63	APFSDS	436	434	426	416	406	396
M393A2	HESH	127	127	127	127	127	127
M456A2	HEATFS	400	400	400	400	400	400

Shell details
Ammunition	Type of warhead	Velocity (m/s)	Projectile Mass (kg)	Fuse delay (m)	Fuse sensitivity (mm)	Explosive Mass (TNT equivalent) (g)	Normalisation at 30° from horizontal	Ricochet
								0%	50%	100%
M735	APFSDS	1501	3.7	N/A	N/A	N/A	+1.5°	76°	77°	78°
M774	APFSDS	1509	3.4	N/A	N/A	N/A	+1.5°	78°	80°	81°
DM63	APFSDS	1455	4.3	N/A	N/A	N/A	+?.?°	78°	80°	81°
M393A2	HESH	731.5	14.85	0.4	0.1	4,310	+0°	73°	77°	80°
M456A2	HEATFS	1173	10.5	0.0	0.1	1,270	+0°	65°	72°	75°

Smoke shell characteristics
Ammunition	Velocity (m/s)	Projectile Mass (kg)	Screen radius (m)	Screen deploy time (s)	Screen hold time (s)	Explosive Mass (TNT equivalent) (g)
M416	730	11.4	20	5	25	50

Comparison with analogues

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Usage in battles

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Pros and cons

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History

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Media

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See also

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China tank cannons
30 mm	ZPL02 · ZPZ02
73 mm	Type 85
76 mm	M32K1
85 mm	Type-62-85-TC · Type 63
100 mm	PTP86 · Type 59 · Type 69 · Type 69-II · ZPL04
105 mm	Type 83 · WMA301 · ZPL94 · ZPL98A
120 mm	122TM · PTZ89
125 mm	Type 88C · Type 99A · ZPT98
152 mm	PL66 Gai
	Foreign:
20 mm	KwK30 (Germany)
37 mm	M6 (USA)
45 mm	20-K (USSR)
47 mm	Type 1 (Japan)
57 mm	Type 97 (Japan) · ZIS-2 (USSR)
75 mm	M2 Howitzer (USA) · M3 (USA) · M6 (USA)
76 mm	D-56T (USSR) · F-34 (USSR) · M1 (USA) · M7 (USA) · ZIS-3 (USSR)
85 mm	ZIS-S-53 (USSR)
90 mm	M3 (USA) · M41 (USA)
100 mm	D-10S (USSR)
105 mm	M68 (USA) · M68A1 (USA)
115 mm	U-5TS (USSR)
122 mm	A-19 (USSR) · D-25T (USSR)
152 mm	ML-20S (USSR)