Ordnance QF 20 pounder

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A Charioteer tank destroyer equipped with the 20 pounder. This gun is a later model which is fitted with a bore evacuator.
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A Charioteer tank destroyer equipped with the 20 pounder. This gun is a later model which is fitted with a bore evacuator.

The Ordnance QF 20 pounder (a.k.a. 20 pounder or 20-pdr) was an 84 mm[1] tank gun used in the Centurion tank and the Charioteer tank destroyer. It was the successor to the popular Ordnance QF 17 pounder, having about twice the performance[citation needed], and the predecessor of the 105 mm L7 gun.

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Pugh, p.34; the gun is specified as 83.4 mm here

[edit] References

  • Pugh, Stevenson (1962). Fighting Vehicles and Weapons of the Modern British Army. Macdonald & Co. (Publishers), Ltd.


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