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This is a list of tank main guns which are designed or used as the primary weapon of combat by tanks, such as light tanks, medium tanks, heavy tanks, or main battle tanks. Many tanks have other, secondary weapons installed in them, such as machine guns , autocannons and small calibre mortars , which are not included in this list.
A15 Gun 37 mm, and tank cradle M1916; A16 2.24-inch tank gun (6LB) A17 Hangers, pack, gun and ammunition - Parts and equipment; A18 Cal. .30 machine rifle M1922; A19 Parts Common for Group A Materiel; A20 Cal. .50 machine gun Browning M1921 aircraft; A21 cart mortar light, M1; A22 cart communications, telephone M1; A23 75 mm mortar M1, M2
The L30A1, officially designated Gun, 120 mm, Tank L30, is a British-designed 120 mm rifled tank gun, installed in the turrets of Challenger 2 main battle tanks. It is an improved production model of the Royal Ordnance L11 series of rifled tank guns. Challenger 2 tanks and their L30A1 guns are operated by the British and Omani armies.
The L number in isolation is not a unique identifier; the L1 designation alone is used for a rifle and its corresponding bayonet and blank-firing attachment, a machine gun, a tank gun, a sighting telescope, an anti-riot grenade, three separate rocket systems, a necklace demolition charge, a hand-thrown flare, a fuze setter head, and two ...
The pre-war headstamp has the 1- or 2-letter code for the brass supplier of the cartridge case at 6 o'clock, the 2-digit year the cartridge case was produced at 12 o'clock, the lot number of the propellant at 9 o'clock, and the 2-digit year the finished cartridge was assembled at 3 o'clock. The brass suppliers or cartridge manufacturers would ...
120×570mm NATO tank ammunition (4.7 inch), also known as 120×570mmR, is a common, NATO-standard (STANAG 4385), tank gun semi-combustible cartridge used by 120mm smoothbore guns, superseding the earlier 105×617mmR cartridge used in NATO-standard rifled tank guns.
The U-5TS (production designation 2A20) tank gun is a 115 mm-calibre weapon that was fitted almost [a] exclusively to the Soviet Union's T-62 main battle tank.It was the first smoothbore weapon designed for tanks, [2] and heralded the change in main armament from rifled cannons.
M256 (tank gun) MKE 120 mm gun; Q. QF 6-pounder Hotchkiss; R. Rheinmetall Rh-120; Royal Ordnance L30; T. Type 1 37 mm anti-tank gun; V. Vickers .50 machine gun ...