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HEAT - High Explosive Anti-Tank - projectiles are designed specifically for use against tanks and other armoured vehicles and fortifications. They're typically used in rifled tank guns, as smoothbore guns (such as those found on the Leopard 2, M1A1/A2, T-62, T-64, T-72, T-80, T-90, etc) use a kinetic energy projectile, rather than an explosive projectile.

Amendment:

The above is not strictly true. HEAT rounds work farbetter when fired from smooth bore guns (spinning a HEAT disperse the effect). The reason that that HEAT round were fired from rifled guns is that the smoothbore hadn't yet become a viable weapon.

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