The Challenger 2 has a rifled 120mm gun, while the Challenger 3, announced in 2021, features a smoothbore 120mm gun. This ...

The UK’s Challenger 3 program represents a significant “reinvention” of 148 Challenger 2 tanks, featuring a new NATO-standard ...

Designed by Rheinmetall BAE Systems Land (RBSL), the Challenger 3 features next-generation modular armor, advanced communications, and a powerful 120mm L55A1 smoothbore gun. -In a live-fire test ...

The Rheinmetall-BAE Systems joint venture says the 120-mm L55A1 smoothbore gun, known as the L55A1CR3 in its British configuration, has successfully completed a series of firing tests. The tests ...

The smoothbore version (one that has a barrel without rifling) of the 100-series Kalashnikov intended for use by Russia’s Special Forces is now available in stores, customized for use with new ...

- of a firearm; not having rifling or internal spiral grooves inside the barrel ...

However, smoothbore muskets continued to see extensive service on battlefields across the nation throughout the war. At the North-South Skirmish Association, they pay homage to the men who used ...

While a regular gun license is moderately easy to acquire for a law-abiding citizen with a good record of mental health, this license only allows a citizen to own smoothbore firearms—generally ...