Sabot

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What Wikipedia says

A sabot (UK: , US: ) is a supportive device used in firearm/artillery ammunitions to fit/patch around a projectile, such as a bullet/slug or a flechette-like projectile (such as a kinetic energy penetrator), and keep it aligned in the center of the barrel when fired.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Sabot (firearms)”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: David Monniaux, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.