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The Royal Ordnance L11A5, officially designated Gun, 120 mm, Tank L11, [i] is a 120 mm L/55 rifled tank gun design. It was the second 120 mm calibre tank gun in service with British Army. It was the first of NATO's 120 mm main battle tank guns which became the standard calibre for Western tanks in the later period of the Cold War. A total of ...
The FV4201 Chieftain was the main battle tank (MBT) of the United Kingdom from the 1960s into 1990s. When introduced, it was among the most heavily armed MBTs of the era, mounting a 120 mm Royal Ordnance L11 gun, the equal of the much larger specialist heavy tanks then in service.
Centurion [40] – main British early Cold War tank. Conqueror [41] – used from mid 50s to mid 60s to give long range anti-tank support to Centurions. Built to counter IS-3. Chieftain [42] – main British tank of Cold War and mid Cold War. Challenger 1 [43] – Main British tank late Cold War or 1980s.
L30 gun on a Royal Scots Dragoon Guards Challenger 2 tank. A tank gun is the main armament of a tank. Modern tank guns are high-velocity, large-caliber artilleries capable of firing kinetic energy penetrators, high-explosive anti-tank, and cannon-launched guided projectiles. Anti-aircraft guns can also be mounted to tanks.
The Chieftain tank based "Willich Chieftain AVRE" entered service in 1987. This vehicle was designed by Capt D Clegg MBE RE. This vehicle was designed by Capt D Clegg MBE RE. Twelve vehicles were built by 32 Armoured Engineer Regiment and 21 Engineer Base Workshop of the Royal Engineers under the direction of Lt Col JF Johnson RE based in the ...
The effective range is 4,000 metres (4,400 yd). The vehicle is also equipped with eight Wegmann 76 mm smoke dischargers, a 7.62 mm assault rifle, and a flare gun. The turret can traverse a full 360 degrees and has an elevation range of −10 to +85 degrees. The magazines hold 460 fragmentation rounds and 40 anti-tank rounds.
Proposals exist for types that have advanced external thermal and radar profiles, reducing their thermal and radar signatures in order to make the barrel and thereby the tank harder to detect. [2] The canvas-covered thermal sleeve on a Chieftain tank. One of the earliest guns to use a thermal sleeve was the Royal Ordnance L11 used on the ...
US Marines with a 106 mm M40 recoilless rifle, during the Battle of Huế. A spotting rifle or ranging gun is a small-calibre rifle used as a ranging device for artillery.The ballistics of the spotting rifle are matched to those of the artillery piece, [1] so that if a shot from the spotting rifle lands on the target, it may be assumed that the main weapon will also do so.