To: D. Brian Carter
The much vaunted and praised M1A1 Abrams MBT has as its main gun a 120mm smooth bore made by: (drumroll, please)
Rienmetal GmBh of Germany
Its the same gun found on the Bundesweher's MBT.
If I'm not mistaken, the Brits use it to.
9 posted on
09/05/2003 6:24:53 PM PDT by
cavtrooper21
(The only thing criminals will get from me is a .45 bullet or cold steel... Their choice.)
To: cavtrooper21
Just curious what is the advantage of smooth bore? Higher Muzzel Velocity or Range or something else?
To: cavtrooper21
Challenger 2 L30, 120mm rifled tank gun from the Royal Ordnance division of BAE
Leopard L2A6 120 millimetre L55 Gun, has been developed by Rheinmetall GmbH of Ratingen, Germany to replace the shorter 120mm L44 smoothbore tankgun on the Leopard 2.
M1A2 Abrams 120mm M256 smoothbore gun, developed by Rheinmetall GmbH of Germany.
Sourced from
http://www.army-technology.com/projects/index.html
12 posted on
09/05/2003 6:45:05 PM PDT by
KiaKaha
To: cavtrooper21
Actually, the British use their own 120MM (I believe it is rifled).
14 posted on
09/05/2003 6:54:35 PM PDT by
Poohbah
(Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women.)
To: cavtrooper21
Actually the British use their own cannon which is rifled. The German cannon is smoothbore.
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