The L118 light gun is a 105 mm towed howitzer. It was originally designed and produced in the United Kingdom for the British Army in the 1970s. It has...
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features with the British L118 light gun. It's suitable to operate in mountainous and other difficult terrains, because this gun has excellent portability...
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Based on L118. Ordnance QF 6 pounder- antitank gun (~1960) M119 air mobile / air assault (slingload/parachute) is based on the UK L118 Light Gun, firing...
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Bishopton. Triple-base propellant for UK service (for example, the 105 mm L118 Light Gun) is now manufactured in Germany. Gunpowder, an explosive mixture of...
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105 mm calibre (section 105 mm artillery guns)
Indian field gun ( India) K105A1 105 mm self-propelled howitzer (EVO-105) ( South Korea) KH178 105 mm howitzer ( South Korea) L118 light gun ( United Kingdom)...
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role with 16 Air Assault Brigade Combat Team, and is equipped with the L118 Light Gun. The regiment was constituted in 1961 out of existing batteries that...
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Forças Terrestres. 2010-09-19. Retrieved 2024-09-13. "Obuseiro 105mm L118 LIGHT GUN". Marinha do Brasil. Retrieved 2024-08-30. Sperduto, Hugo Marques (2019)...
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155 mm self-propelled gun and is utilised by 1st Regiment RHA and 19 Regiment RA. L118 light gun – The light gun is a 105 mm gun. It is operated by 4th...
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Barracks in Topcliffe and serves in the light close support role, equipped with 105mm L118 light guns supporting 7 Light Mechanised Brigade Combat Team. The...
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throughout Scotland and Northern Ireland. It is currently equipped with the L118 Light Gun. The regiment was first formed as the 105 (Scottish) Air Defence Regiment...
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February 2024 "L118 light gun". Ministry of Defence. Archived from the original on 29 June 2014. Retrieved 6 May 2014. "AS90 self-propelled gun". Ministry...
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56 – Saw short service as L5 pack howitzer from 1960s to mid-1970s. L118 light gun – entered service in mid 1970s and today is main field artillery piece...
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Royal Artillery – Commando Trained L118 gun battery based at East Ham London. (Disbanded 1999) A 105 mm light gun of 29 Commando Regiment sited between...
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Edinburgh Castle (redirect from One O'Clock Gun)
O'Clock Gun is an L118 Light Gun, brought into service on 30 November 2001. On Sunday 2 April 1916, at an unknown time of day, the One O'Clock Gun was fired...
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Ordnance QF 25-pounder (redirect from 25 pounder gun)
the 105mm L118 light gun. The last British military unit to fire the 25-pounder in its field role (as opposed to ceremonial use) was the Gun Troop of the...
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Royal Marines (section Light weapons)
29th Commando Regiment Royal Artillery of the British Army using the L118 Light Gun, a 105 mm towed howitzer. The regiment is Commando-trained. The Commando...
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103rd (Lancashire Artillery Volunteers) Regiment Royal Artillery (redirect from 103rd (Lancashire Artillery Volunteers) Light Air Defence Regiment, Royal Artillery)
purpose is to provide reinforcements for units that use the 105 mm L118 Light Gun. The Lancashire Artillery Volunteers were first raised in 1859 as part...
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terms of modern non-self-propelled artillery in NATO, there is the L118 light gun, as well as the FH70, both of which are used by multiple NATO countries...
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Weapons of the Falklands War (section Submachine guns)
Clansman Artillery CITER 155 mm L33 gun OTO Melara Mod 56 Mortars FM 81 mm mortar FM 120 mm mortar Artillery L118 light gun Mortars L16 81mm mortar LVTP-7...
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Abbot (artillery) (section Gun)
propellants favoured by the US. The 105 mm Fd Mark 2 is still used with the L118 Light Gun. Maximum range with 105 mm Fd Mark 1 ammunition was 15 km, the Mark...
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Ordnance Factories as the L118 light gun. In the L118 configuration, the 105 mm ammunition is cased separate loading ammunition. The L118 entered service with...
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Thomas McKay (gunner) (redirect from Tam The Gun)
the gun was a 25-pound Howitzer, although this was replaced with a L118 Light Gun, brought into service on 30 November 2001, with "Tam the Gun" firing...
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M777 howitzer (redirect from M777 gun)
been proven previously through earlier use on the British Army 105 mm L118 Light Gun. The M777A2 may be combined with the M982 Excalibur 155 mm GPS-guided...
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howitzer FH-70 155 mm gun M777 155 mm howitzer L118 light gun 105 mm M119 Self-propelled artillery FV433 Abbot SPG self-propelled 105 mm gun AS-90 155 mm self-propelled...
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is a 155 mm self-propelled armoured gun with a 24-kilometre (15 mi) range. The L118 light gun is a 105 mm towed gun, which is typically towed by a Pinzgauer...
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Field guns are one of two primary types of field artillery. Guns fire a heavy shell on a relatively level trajectory from a longer barrel, allowing for...
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their armoured vehicles. The Legions field artillery group mans L118 105mm Light Guns, Italian wheeled tank destroyers B1 Centauro also are used. The...
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vz. 82 PRAM-L M69 2S9 Nona Bars-8 M113 Panzermörser D-20 D-44 D-30 L118 light gun 2A36 Giatsint-B 2A65 Msta-B 2B16 Nona-K M-46 MT-12 Rapira OTO Melara...
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Artillery L118 light gun Alanbrooke Barracks, North Yorkshire 1745 Regular 88 (Arracan) Battery Royal Artillery 4th Regiment Royal Artillery L118 light gun Alanbrooke...
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Commando Battalion, the Special Operations Force, a field artillery group (L118 Light Gun), a reconnaissance squadron (Panhard VBL), an anti-aircraft battery...
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