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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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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Regiment Royal Horse Artillery – (The Airborne Gunners) are equipped with L118 105 mm light guns and are currently held at Very High Readiness, as part...
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/ 105 mm L118 Light Guns x 6 Land Rover 101 Forward Control x 6 Land Rover series IIA x 6 8th (Alma) Battery Royal Artillery / 105 mm L118 Light Guns...
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artillery 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...
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factories in Ambajhari and Chandrapur. It shares many features with the British L118 light gun. It's suitable to operate in mountainous and other difficult terrains...
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with six L118 105mm light guns and three OPs each. The batteries are as follows: 7 (Sphinx) Battery Royal Artillery – Commando trained L118 gun battery...
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Commando Regiment, Royal Artillery, Plymouth, one battery in Arbroath, (18× L118 light guns) 4 Assault Squadron, Plymouth (4× LCU Mk.9, 4× LCVP Mk.4, 2× Centurion...
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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...
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equipment, to re-equip the regiment with new weapons. In late 1982, six 105mm L118 light guns guns replaced the three howitzers and eight Blowpipe surface-to-air...
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systems: the M270 multiple launch rocket system (MLRS), the AS-90 and the L118 light gun. The MLRS, first used in Operation Granby, has an 85-kilometre...
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equipment includes Foxhounds, Jackal 2s, WMIK Land Rovers, Supacat ATMPs, towed L118 light guns, Javelin anti-tank and lightweight Starstreak air-defence missile...
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RAF Merlin carrying a L118 105 mm howitzer....
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Commonwealth of Nations) calls them "guns", for example Gun, 105 mm, Field, L118. A self-propelled howitzer is mounted on a tracked or wheeled motor vehicle...
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missions. 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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self-propelled howitzer (EVO-105) ( South Korea) KH178 105 mm howitzer ( South Korea) L118 light gun ( United Kingdom) / M119 howitzer ( United States) M-56 howitzer...
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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...
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Topcliffe and serves in the light close support role, equipped with 105mm L118 light guns supporting 7 Light Mechanised Brigade Combat Team. The regiment...
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and in May 1952 by a 25-pound Howitzer. The present One O'Clock Gun is an L118 Light Gun, brought into service on 30 November 2001. On Sunday 2 April 1916...
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Rwandaises received some LG1s, after the Rwandan Civil War erupted in 1990. L118 light gun M119 howitzer Indian Field Gun KH178 105 mm towed howitzer Notes...
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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...
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launcher on their armoured vehicles. The Legions field artillery group mans L118 105mm Light Guns, Italian wheeled tank destroyers B1 Centauro also are used...
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Vehicles [Part of a batch of 80 AFVs. June 2022]. Towed artillery 54 105mm L118/L119s [Delivered from July 2022 onwards]. Self-Propelled Artillery 20+ 155mm...
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105 mm 1940s – present (2024) OTO Melara Mod 56 Italy 60 (2024) 105 mm 1970s – present (2024) L118 United Kingdom 40 (2024) 105 mm 1991 – present (2024)...
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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...
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filled by rockets, missiles, and aircraft. Modern gun-artillery such as the L118 105 mm light gun or the M119 105 mm howitzer are used to provide fire support...
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service with the Australian Army in 1988, when it was replaced by the 105 mm L118 and L119, which in turn were replaced by the M777A2 in 2014. The M2A2 remained...
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Modern 105 OTO Melara Mod 56 Italy Malaya, Aden, Vietnam, Falklands 105 L118 light gun United Kingdom Falklands, Yugoslavia, Iraq, Afghanistan 105 L119...
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131 machine gun Heckler & Koch P11 Remington Model 700 EtronX M61 Vulcan L118 light gun FD Munitions L5 Marble gun Voere VEC-91 Metal Storm Limited Solenoid...
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FH-70, M-1950, M114), 18 130mm (M1954). Besides this 54 105mm (M101 and L118) are deployed in different regions. 2 Battalions of multiple launch rocket...
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