Royal Ordnance L7

The tank could now travel 115 miles instead of 62.5 miles on roads and 60 miles instead of 32.5 miles cross-country (Ware et al.). Lastly, the armament of the centurion was much better with the Centurion Mk 10. The Centurion Mk 10’s standard gun was the Royal Ordinance L7 105mm rifled gun. The engineers at the Royal Armament Research and Development Establishment at Fort Halstead created this gun to counter the Soviet T-54 with its 100mm gun. The overall performance of this gun was top of its class. It could fire eight to ten rounds a minute with greater stopping power than the previous 20-pounder gun. Even though it was a larger gun, engineers designed the gun breach so it occupied the same amount of space as the previous 20-pounder. The accuracy and power of the L7 proved to be outstanding that it won two competitions by 1966 for speed and accuracy of tank gunnery. Because of the gun’s fast firing capabilities, the engineers gave the barrel a thermal sleeve, which prevented the barrel from bowing due to heat from rapid firing of the gun. This further improved the accuracy of the L7 gun. Like the 20-pounder, the L7 was also stabilized allowing it to fire accurately on the move (Ware et al.). The ammunition choices for the L7 were very different from the 20-pounder. It was capable of firing armor-piercing discarding sabot, armor-piercing fin stabilized discarding sabot, and high-explosive squash head. Of these ammunition types, the HESH was unique in its capabilities. Because…

nexploded ordnance presents problems to workers and the general public as these explosive devices have been left behind from world wars and other conflicts. Over time these devices have been overlain by sediment at which point they have been buried to where they pose certain dangers to the public, and workers that are contracted for infrastructure projects. There is estimated to be around 15 million acres in unexploded ordnance in the U.S. alone. Geophysicists use Magnetics in order to locate…

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