The Royal Ordnance L7, officially designated Gun, 105 mm, Tank, L7, is the basic model of the United Kingdom's most successful tank gun. It is a 105 mm L/52 rifled design by the Royal Ordnance Factories, intended for use in armoured fighting vehicles, replacing the older QF 20-pounder (84 mm) gun mounted on the British Centurion tank.[1] The successful L7 gun has been fitted on many armoured vehicles, including the Centurion (starting from the Mk. 5/2 variant), the German Leopard 1 and, in an altered design, as the M68 gun in several variants of the US M48 Patton and M60.
The L7 is a popular weapon and continued in use even after it was superseded by the L11 series 120 mm rifled tank gun, for some Centurion tanks operating as Artillery Forward Observation and Armoured Vehicle, Royal Engineers (AVRE) vehicles. The L7, and adaptations of it, can be found as standard or retrofitted equipment on a wide variety of tanks developed during the Cold War.
The RoyalOrdnanceL7, officially designated Gun, 105 mm, Tank, L7, is the basic model of the United Kingdom's most successful tank gun. It is a 105 mm...
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the West, guns of around 90 mm gave way to the ubiquitous 105 mm RoyalOrdnanceL7, introduced in 1958. This lasted a long while, with a shift to 120 mm...
existing tanks with a 105 mm high-velocity rifled gun in 1958, the RoyalOrdnanceL7 to keep the Centurion viable against this new Soviet tank design....
artillery piece, based on the Type 59 chassis. RoyalOrdnance designed variants with 105 mm RoyalOrdnanceL7 gun as an upgrade package for owners of the...
British 84 mm calibre Ordnance QF 20 pounder. and the third prototype as well as the production model was fitted with a RoyalOrdnanceL7 105mm rifled gun...
would be armed with the 105 mm M68 gun, a licensed version of the RoyalOrdnanceL7, and a 20 mm version of the M242 Bushmaster. The Army later deleted...
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had offered the latest Centurion Mk. 10, which featured the famed RoyalOrdnanceL7 105 mm gun. The gun had been licensed for production in Sweden and...
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L11 was developed by Britain's RoyalOrdnance Factories to equip the Chieftain tank as the successor to the 105 mm L7 gun used in the Centurion tank and...
Leopard consisted of a German license-built version of the British RoyalOrdnanceL7 105 mm rifled gun, one of the most effective and widespread tank guns...
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Challenger 2 main battle tanks. It is an improved production model of the RoyalOrdnance L11 series of rifled tank guns. Challenger 2 tanks and their L30A1 guns...
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would be armed with the 105 mm M68 gun, a licensed version of the RoyalOrdnanceL7, and a 20 mm version of the M242 Bushmaster. The Army later deleted...
incorporating the ARCOVE recommendation of a more powerful main gun, the RoyalOrdnanceL7 (105mm T254). Instead of immediately getting a 105mm main gun, large...
Observation Post vehicle, it was armed with the conventional 105 mm RoyalOrdnanceL7 rifled gun and provided with track width mine clearance ploughs instead...
734 yd). This performance bettered that of APDS rounds fired from the RoyalOrdnanceL7 105mm gun. The gun was mounted on the following vehicles in either...
main armament is a low recoil force (LRF) version of the British RoyalOrdnanceL7 105 mm rifled gun installed in a well-angled and electro-hydraulically...
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