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    The 120 mm Compact Tank Gun allows improving firepower to today's standards on battle tanks and lighter 20-30 ton vehicles. It provides the firepower of a 120mm main battle tank gun on lighter platforms due to its compact design and muzzle brake, which reduces recoil. It is compatible with current and future 120mm ammunition, and its performance matches or exceeds modern main battle tanks despite its smaller size.

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    The 120 mm Compact Tank Gun allows improving firepower to today's standards on battle tanks and lighter 20-30 ton vehicles. It provides the firepower of a 120mm main battle tank gun on lighter platforms due to its compact design and muzzle brake, which reduces recoil. It is compatible with current and future 120mm ammunition, and its performance matches or exceeds modern main battle tanks despite its smaller size.

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    The 120 mm Compact Tank Gun allows improving firepower to today's standards on battle tanks and lighter 20-30 ton vehicles. It provides the firepower of a 120mm main battle tank gun on lighter platforms due to its compact design and muzzle brake, which reduces recoil. It is compatible with current and future 120mm ammunition, and its performance matches or exceeds modern main battle tanks despite its smaller size.

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    Compact 120 Tank Gun Brochure

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    The 120 mm Compact Tank Gun allows improving firepower to today's standards on battle tanks and lighter 20-30 ton vehicles. It provides the firepower of a 120mm main battle tank gun on lighter platforms due to its compact design and muzzle brake, which reduces recoil. It is compatible with current and future 120mm ammunition, and its performance matches or exceeds modern main battle tanks despite its smaller size.

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    The key takeaways are that the 120mm Compact Tank Gun allows improving firepower for modern battle tanks and lighter combat vehicles between 20-30 tons while maintaining similar weight and space as a 105mm system.

    The advantages listed are mobility of a light armored vehicle with firepower of a main battle tank, ability to install on lightweight platforms above 20 tons, low vehicle response due to muzzle brake and extended recoil, dispersion performance equal or better than modern MBTs, and adaptability for future ammunition.

    Technical specifications provided include a dispersion pattern at 1000m, gun parameters like mean recoil travel and force, maximum recoil travel and force, rate of fire, muzzle velocity, design gas pressure, masses, and ammunition compatibility.

    120 mm Compact Tank Gun

    RUAG Land Systems’ 120 mm Compact


    Tank Gun allows improving the fire power
    of many battle tanks to today’s standard.
    This new gun is a logical development from
    105 mm tank guns. With a specifically de-
    signed muzzle brake the 120 mm Compact
    Tank Gun is also suitable for lighter combat
    vehicles of the 20 to 30 t class.

    • The required weight and space of the


    weapon system is almost equal to the
    105 mm system

    • Full compatibility with current and


    future 120 mm ammunition

    Fire power of a main battle tank on a light armoured vehicle

    Advantages
    • Mobility of a light armoured vehicle
    with the fire power of a 120 mm
    main battle tank gun
    • The compact gun design enables
    installation on lightweight platforms
    (>20 t)
    • Low vehicle response due to muzzle
    brake and extended gun recoil
    • The dispersion pattern performance is
    equal to the performance of the most
    modern MBTs if not higher
    • Adaptive layout for future ammunition

    Upgunning of existing main battle tanks to 120 mm fire power

    Advantages
    • 120 mm NATO standard calibre fire
    power on an existing main battle tank
    of older generation
    • 120 mm NATO calibre fire power for
    T-series tanks
    • Dimensions fit within a standard
    105 mm tank gun envelope
    • Only minor turret-rework
    • The dispersion pattern performance
    is equal to the performance of the most
    modern MBTs if not higher
    • Adaptive layout for future ammunition
    Technical data
    50 Gun parameters CV90120

    40 Dropping block breech


    (semi-automatic)
    30
    Mean recoil travel 480 mm
    20 Max. recoil travel 500 mm

    10 Mean recoil force 200 kN


    Max. recoil force 260 kN
    0
    (with muzzle brake)
    -50 -40 -30 -20 -10 0 10 20 30 40 50
    -10 Rate of fire 6–10 rounds/min (manual)

    -20 Muzzle velocity (DM 33 L-50) 1’680 m/s


    Design gas pressure 7’400 bar
    -30
    PIMP 7’100 bar

    -40

    -50 Masses

    Elevating mass 2’600 kg


    Dispersion pattern
    Target distance 1’000 m Recoiling mass 1’860 kg
    Number of rounds 8
    Barrel mass L-50 1’120 kg
    (plus bore evacuator)
    Standard deviation
    Elevation 0.17 mils
    Azimuth 0.14 mils
    Ammunition

    The gun fires all 120 mm ammunition


    available today

    The latest types of KE rounds have


    been fired, the related muzzle velocities
    are still classified

    120 mm
    700 Performance comparison
    The 105 mm potential is exhausted in
    Depth of penetration

    105 mm view of
    600 • gas pressure
    • barrel length
    • projectile fineness ratio

    500
    1400 1700 2000 2300
    Muzzle velocity (m/s)

    The performance diagram shows the DOP


    increase attainable with the 120 mm calibre.
    Dimensions

    Barrel length

    Cal with muzzle brake without muzzle brake

    L 50 6’000 mm

    L 44 5’765 mm 5’280 mm
    568
    RUAG Land Systems proposes to extend slim 120 mm gun barrels
    to max. L52.
    ø350

    ø100

    Cradle
    The design of cradle and muzzle brake as
    well as the length of the recoil travel may be
    adapted to the individual characteristics of
    the overall system.

    RUAG Land Systems


    Allmendstrasse 86 Tel. +41 332 284 550
    CH-3602 Thun/Switzerland Fax +41 332 284 783
    11.04/1000

    www.ruag.com [email protected]

    S E C U R I T Y I S O U R G O A L , Q U A L I T Y O U R S TA N D A R D

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