The Type 74 MBT (pictured above) – firing a round during an annual live-fire exercise in 2015 – is armed with a locally manufactured L7A3 105 mm rifled gun as its main armament that is fitted ...

The Type 74 tank’s main armament was the NATO standard British Royal Ordnance L7 105mm cannon, with the barrel produced under license while the mantlet, ...

Some 893 of the tanks were produced, and while it was due to be replaced by the more modern Type 90, with the end of the Cold War the 700 Type 74s remained in service until at least 2006.