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Did any WWI tanks carry armor piercing rounds?

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tl;dr: Tanks did not carry armor-piercing rounds during World War 1 because they did not need them. Tanks did not fight one another, or even commonly encounter one another, and even if they did standard shells would have been more than enough to pierce an enemy tanks armor without special armor-piercing rounds. read more

AP rounds smaller than 20 mm are typically known as "armor-piercing ammunition", and are intended for lightly-armored targets such as body armor, bulletproof glass and light armored vehicles. The classic AP shell is now seldom used in naval warfare, as modern warships have little or no armor protection, and newer technologies have displaced the classic AP design in the anti-tank role. read more

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