Talk:Royal Ordnance L7

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Contents 1 Merge with "L7 (tank gun)" 2 Would like to add recoil for L7 on Leo C1 3 Sources 4 Response to T-54A

[edit] Merge with "L7 (tank gun)"

Maybe merge this page with L7 (tank gun)?

Good idea, material from it taken and merged in. GraemeLeggett 12:17, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Would like to add recoil for L7 on Leo C1

Hi, as an ex Leopard C1 gunner I'd like to add that the L7 recoil on a Leo C1 was/is 25cm.10:55, 13 February 2006 (UTC)~~

[edit] Sources

Maybe we could add sources for the date posted on this page? --Edward Sandstig 22:48, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Response to T-54A

Steven Zaloga, writing about T-62 development:

...the program took an abrupt shift in January 1961 after a disgruntled Iranian officer drove his brand new M60A1 tank over the border into the Soviet Union. The US Army's M60A1 armor layout and its new 105mm gun infuriated the chief of the Soviet tank force who insisted that the caliber of the new Soviet smoothbore gun be increased from 100mm to 115mm to exceed the NATO 105mm ... Ironically, the British 105mm gun had been adopted by NATO in the late 1950s after British officials examined a T-54A tank driven onto the grounds of the British embassy in Budapest during the 1956 Hungarian uprising.

—Steven J. Zaloga and Hugh Johnson (2004)
T-54 and T-55 Main Battle Tanks 1944–2004, p 11.
Oxford: Osprey. ISBN 1-84176-792-1.

 —Michael Z. 2006-10-04 03:21 Z