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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 ...
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 ...
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.
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.
The Royal Armament Research and Development Establishment at Fort Halstead designed a new 120 mm rifled tank gun in 1957. The new gun was deemed to be necessary because the British Army specified engagement ranges greater than those of other armies, for example 2,000 m (2,200 yd), as specified by the US Army, despite studies at the time that suggested engagement ranges were below those of the ...
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.
Watch a live firing of the British Army’s new Archer Mobile Howitzer gun close to Russia border. British soldiers fired the new artillery gun for the first time on a tactical exercise in Finland ...
Artillery Gun Module Germany: 2022 155 Bandkanon 1 Sweden: 1965 155 Archer artillery system Sweden: 2016 155 AS-90 United Kingdom: 1992 155 CAESAR France: 2008 155 KRAB howitzer 155 mm Poland: 2008 155 AMX-13 Mk F3 France: 1962 155 Raad 2 Iran: 1997 155 K9 Thunder South Korea: 1999 155 M12 gun motor carriage United States: 1942 155 M40 gun ...