APDS

Armor-piercing discarding sabot - artillery projectile. Article “APDS” in Spanish Wikipedia has 14.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 3 references and 8 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Spanish) language version.

Since the creation of article “APDS”, its content was written by 11 registered users of Spanish Wikipedia and edited by 229 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 29 times in Spanish Wikipedia and cited 697 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Spanish): #17217 in November 2011
• Global: #47484 in May 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Spanish): #117969 in October 2017
• Global: #60643 in January 2023

There are 16 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Armour-piercing discarding sabot		43.0081
2	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Pilammunisjon		26.3725
3	Norwegian (no) Pilammunisjon		22.5028
4	French (fr) Obus perforant sous-calibré		19.8137
5	Korean (ko) 분리철갑탄		17.6368
6	Spanish (es) APDS		14.5841
7	Russian (ru) Подкалиберные боеприпасы		13.5186
8	Turkish (tr) Zırh delici sabot mermi		13.3428
9	Czech (cs) Armour Piercing Discarding Sabot		12.3124
10	Indonesian (id) APDS (peluru anti tank)		11.6589

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "APDS" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Armour-piercing discarding sabot		1 436 480
2	Russian (ru) Подкалиберные боеприпасы		959 454
3	Japanese (ja) APDS		516 745
4	Spanish (es) APDS		89 266
5	Chinese (zh) 脫殼穿甲彈		70 979
6	Czech (cs) Armour Piercing Discarding Sabot		56 152
7	Ukrainian (uk) Бронебійний підкаліберний снаряд		44 441
8	Turkish (tr) Zırh delici sabot mermi		23 737
9	French (fr) Obus perforant sous-calibré		7 274
10	Persian (fa) پرتابه ضدزره با کفشک جدا شونده		3 649

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "APDS" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Armour-piercing discarding sabot		4 503
2	Russian (ru) Подкалиберные боеприпасы		1 349
3	Japanese (ja) APDS		1 326
4	Chinese (zh) 脫殼穿甲彈		292
5	Turkish (tr) Zırh delici sabot mermi		199
6	French (fr) Obus perforant sous-calibré		184
7	Czech (cs) Armour Piercing Discarding Sabot		160
8	Spanish (es) APDS		157
9	Ukrainian (uk) Бронебійний підкаліберний снаряд		134
10	Persian (fa) پرتابه ضدزره با کفشک جدا شونده		44

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "APDS" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Armour-piercing discarding sabot		83
2	Russian (ru) Подкалиберные боеприпасы		57
3	Czech (cs) Armour Piercing Discarding Sabot		16
4	Japanese (ja) APDS		15
5	Spanish (es) APDS		11
6	French (fr) Obus perforant sous-calibré		8
7	Chinese (zh) 脫殼穿甲彈		8
8	Ukrainian (uk) Бронебійний підкаліберний снаряд		7
9	Norwegian (no) Pilammunisjon		6
10	Azerbaijani (az) APDS		4

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "APDS" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Azerbaijani (az) APDS		0
2	Czech (cs) Armour Piercing Discarding Sabot		0
3	English (en) Armour-piercing discarding sabot		0
4	Spanish (es) APDS		0
5	Persian (fa) پرتابه ضدزره با کفشک جدا شونده		0
6	French (fr) Obus perforant sous-calibré		0
7	Armenian (hy) Ենթատրամաչափային արկ		0
8	Indonesian (id) APDS (peluru anti tank)		0
9	Japanese (ja) APDS		0
10	Korean (ko) 분리철갑탄		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "APDS" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Russian (ru) Подкалиберные боеприпасы		249
2	Ukrainian (uk) Бронебійний підкаліберний снаряд		113
3	English (en) Armour-piercing discarding sabot		94
4	Chinese (zh) 脫殼穿甲彈		71
5	Japanese (ja) APDS		65
6	Czech (cs) Armour Piercing Discarding Sabot		31
7	Spanish (es) APDS		29
8	French (fr) Obus perforant sous-calibré		18
9	Norwegian (no) Pilammunisjon		14
10	Turkish (tr) Zırh delici sabot mermi		6

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#	Language	Value
az	Azerbaijani APDS
cs	Czech Armour Piercing Discarding Sabot
en	English Armour-piercing discarding sabot
es	Spanish APDS
fa	Persian پرتابه ضدزره با کفشک جدا شونده
fr	French Obus perforant sous-calibré
hy	Armenian Ենթատրամաչափային արկ
id	Indonesian APDS (peluru anti tank)
ja	Japanese APDS
ko	Korean 분리철갑탄
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Pilammunisjon
no	Norwegian Pilammunisjon
ru	Russian Подкалиберные боеприпасы
tr	Turkish Zırh delici sabot mermi
uk	Ukrainian Бронебійний підкаліберний снаряд
zh	Chinese 脫殼穿甲彈

Best Rank

Spanish: #117969 10.2017

Global: #60643 01.2023

Best Rank

Spanish: #17217 11.2011

Global: #47484 05.2004

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