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The Royal Ordnance L11A5 is a 120 mm L/55 rifled tank gun design. It was the first of NATO’s 120mm tank guns which became the standard calibre for Western tanks in the later period of the Cold War. A total of 3012 L11 guns were produced at a reported unit cost of US $227000.The L11 was developed by Britain’s Royal Ordnance Factories to equip the Chieftain tank as the successor to the 105 mm L7 gun used in the Centurion tank.
