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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.
This includes British "4.7 inch" guns, which were actually exactly 120 mm. ... Pages in category "120 mm artillery" The following 61 pages are in this category, out ...
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 ...
A 4.7 inch Gun is any of a number of British-built 120 mm naval artillery guns. Several of these guns were designed and manufactured by the Elswick Ordnance Company, part of Armstrong Whitworth. They were a major export item and hence were actually of 120 mm calibre (4.724 inches) to meet the requirements of metricised navies (although the size ...
L11A1 12.7mm Machine Gun (0.50 inch M2 Browning machine gun for use as ranging gun) L11A1-A6 120mm Rifled Gun; L11A1 Rapid Bridge Demolition Charge [57] L11A1 Blank Ammunition Firing Attachment (For use with the SA80 series) [16] L11A1 Illuminating Parachute Hand Fired Rocket [60] L11A1 Long Range Irritant Anti-Riot Discharger Grenade [17] [128]
Single Mk IX gun on HMCS Assiniboine with gunners sheltering behind the shield. The 4.7 inch QF Mark IX and Mark XII were 45-calibre, 4.7-inch (120 mm) naval guns which armed the majority of Royal Navy and Commonwealth destroyers in World War II, [1] and were exported to many countries after World War II as the destroyers they were mounted on were sold off.
Canon de 120 mm modèle 1878 France: World War I, World War II 120: 120 mm Armata wz. 78/09/31 Poland: World War II 120: 120 mm Schneider-Canet M1897 long gun France: Balkan Wars, World War I 120: 12 cm Kanone C/80 German Empire: World War I 120: 12-cm Kanone M 80 Austria-Hungary: World War I 120: 120 mm howitzer Model 1901 German Empire
British forces in the Second Boer War were initially outgunned by the long range Boer artillery. Captain Percy Scott of HMS Terrible first improvised timber static siege mountings for two 4.7-inch (120 mm) guns from the Cape Town coastal defences, to counter the Boers' "Long Tom" gun during the Siege of Ladysmith in 1899–1900. [8]