And myself as well...
The first article I linked to specifically mentions it as "small caliber", but I cannot be certain exactly the caliber. So I used my highly scientific method of holding a ruler up to my screen I came up with the following...
I know that the projectile is 4"
the 1st article I linked)
On my screen the projectile is 32mm long(What luck! It's a multiple of 4!).
So, if 32mm = 4in, then 8mm = 1in.
I then measured the width, I got 3mm at the widest point.
So the projectile is 3/8" wide or .375.
I could not accurately gauge the sabots. But I could guess that they could fit into a .50cal.
But we can take everything I did above and toss it in the trash, because it is bullshit. I read in another article that they are specifically looking to try developing it for the M2. Which is a .50cal weapon. The new article mentions that it is 4" long and 1/2 an inch wide. I'm thinking from the most recent article that the sabots may reside between the fins keeping it a uniform .50 cal.
http://www.adn.com/2012/02/01/2295623/sandia-labs-engineers-create-self.html
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