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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.
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 ...
L2 BAT, Battalion Anti Tank; The original towed gun complete with a heavy armoured shield and wheeled mount. Accepted for service in 1953. L4 MoBAT (Mobile BAT) [8] A BAT with the shield removed to lighten it (even though it still weighed some 770 kg (0.76 long tons) and a spotting weapon (a Bren light machine gun) added.
Most modern main battle tanks now carry a smoothbore gun. A notable exception are the tanks of the British Army which used the 120 mm Royal Ordnance L11A5 rifled gun until the 1990s; it was then replaced it with the 120 mm L30 rifled gun which remains in service. The Indian Arjun tank uses an Indian-developed 120 mm rifled gun.
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 ...
Rheinmetall 120 mm gun: German equivalent, developed by Rheinmetall in 1974. EXP-28M1 120 mm rifled tank gun: Experimental British weapon of the late 1970s/early 1980s. Was to have equipped the MBT-80. IMI 120 mm gun: Israeli equivalent, developed by Israeli Military Industries in 1988.
12 cm mobile coastal artillery gun m/80; 12 cm tornautomatpjäs m/70; 12 cm/12 short naval gun; 12 cm/45 3rd Year Type naval gun; 12-cm Kanone M 80; 12-pounder long gun; 120 KRH 92; 120 mm 50 caliber Pattern 1905; 120 mm howitzer Model 1901; 120 mm Krupp howitzer M1905; 120 mm gun M1; 120 mm Schneider-Canet M1897 long gun; 120 mm 45 caliber ...
The FV 214 Conqueror, also known as tank, heavy No. 1, 120 mm gun, Conqueror was a British heavy tank of the post-World War II era. It was developed as a response to the Soviet IS-3 heavy tank. The Conqueror's main armament, an L1 120 mm gun, [ 1 ] was larger than the 20-pounder (83.4 mm) gun carried by its peer, the Centurion .