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The Royal Ordnance L7 is the basic model of the United Kingdom 's most successful tank gun. The L7 is a 105 mm L/52 rifled design by the Royal Ordnance Factories intended for use in armoured fighting vehicles, replacing the earlier 20-pounder (84 mm) tank gun mounted on the Centurion tank. The successful L7 gun has been fitted on many armored vehicles including the British Centurion (starting from the Mk. 5/2 variant), the German Leopard 1 and early variants of the US M1 Abrams (M1 and M1IP). The L7 is a popular weapon and continued in use even after it was superseded by the L11 series 120 mm rifled tank gun, for some Centurion tanks operating as Artillery Forward Observation and Armoured Vehicle, Royal Engineers (AVRE)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.
References
- Dunstan Centurion Tank: 1943-2003 Osprey Publishing p23-24
- Zaloga 2004, pp 13, 39.
- Dunstan p24
- Hunnicutt, R.P. (1984). Patton: A History of the American MBT. Presidio. p. 152.
- Hunnicutt, R.P. (1984). Patton: A History of the American MBT. Presidio. p. 154.
- M60 Patton Series - Globalsecurity.org http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ground/m60.htm
