The XM291 Advanced Tank Cannon (ATAC) is an American experimental 120 or 140 mm smoothbore tank cannon. It started development in 1991 as a way to substantially...
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future gun technology is the electrothermal-chemical gun. The XM291 electrothermal-chemical tank gun has gone through successful multiple firing sequences...
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M60A3 using M68E1 M1128 mobile gun system: M68A1E4 cannon Expeditionary Tank K1 Type 88: KM68A1 cannon Merkava: Mark I and Mark II models T-54/55: in some...
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Electrothermal-chemical technology (category History of the tank)
successor to a standard solid propellant tank gun. Since the beginning of research the United States has funded the XM291 gun project with US$4,000,000, basic...
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1981, Watervliet Arsenal fabricated eight XM256 cannons and fourteen spare tubes. According to American tank historian Jim Warford, in retrospect, American...
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M1 Abrams (redirect from M1A1 Abrams tank)
Thumper's) fitted with a 48-caliber 140 mm Watervliet Arsenal XM291 smoothbore cannon and a Benét Labs XM91 mechanical autoloader inside the bustle;...
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M8 armored gun system (redirect from CCV-L light tank)
tracks were a rubber band type. Armament was an XM291 120 mm electrothermal-chemical smoothbore cannon fitted with an autoloader. A storage area in the...
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