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The 120×570 R cartridge was originally intended for the German Rh-120 smoothbore gun but an interoperability agreement signed between West Germany and France in April 1979, followed in September 1981 by a project to install the M256 120 mm smoothbore gun on future M1A1 Abrams tanks made it a NATO standard.
This first involved a 140-millimeter (5.5 in) tank gun named Neue Panzerkanone 140 ('new tank gun 140'), but later turned into a compromise which led to the development of an advanced 120 mm gun, the L/55, based on the same internal geometry as the L/44 and installed in the same breech and mount. The L/55 is 1.32 metres (4.3 ft) longer ...
Some of the projectiles produced by SCAAP are 155 mm and 105 mm artillery projectiles, including the 155 mm M795 and M107, and the 105 mm PGU-45/B High Fragmentation (HF) cartridge for the Air Force's AC-130 gunship; 120 mm mortar (M120/M121) projectiles, M931 Full Range Training Cartridge (FRTC), M933 and M934 high-explosive (HE), M930 and ...
120 mm mortar XM395 Precision Guided Mortar Munition – (United States) Strix mortar round – (Sweden) KM-8 Gran – (Russia) guided 120 mm artillery shell with Malakhit fire control system. [7] [8] GP120 (GP4) is a Chinese terminal corrected 120 mm mortar shell. [9] GP140 (GP9) is a Chinese semi-active laser (SAL) guidance 120 mm mortar shell.
The facility would be able to produce roughly 100 shells per day, [10] which was then roughly a third of the number of heavy artillery shells produced at KNDS overall. [11] At the time, Mecar did not have permission to handle explosives, so the shells needed to be sent away for final assembly. [ 11 ]
The defective 120mm rounds — light artillery shells that Ukraine typically uses in mortars — were first reported in early November by Censor.Net, a local media outlet run by journalist Yuriy ...
The following list of modern armament manufacturers presents major companies producing modern weapons and munitions for military, paramilitary, government agency and civilian use. The companies are listed by their full name followed by the short form, or common acronym, if any, in parentheses. The country the company is based in, if the ...
Precision-guided artillery projectile: Place of origin: Russian Federation: Service history; In service: 2002 [1] Used by: Russian Federation: Wars: Russo-Ukrainian War: Production history; Manufacturer: KBP Instrument Design Bureau: Produced: 2002–present: Variants: Kitolov-2 (120 mm (4.7 in) mortar shell) Kitolov-2M (122 mm (4.8 in ...