Variants
- L7A1
- Standard British production variant.
- L7A3
- Variant for the (West) German Leopard 1 MBT. The upper rear corner of the breech block reduced in size so gun can be depressed without hitting the turret roof.
- L74
- Swedish variant with a 62 calibre (6.51 m) barrel used only for the Stridsvagn 103 MBT.
- M68
- US built variant for M60 Patton. Uses a round breech with a vertically-sliding breechblock, and a different design of bore evacuator. Also used on the M1 Abrams up until its replacement by the M256 on the M1A1. Used on Israeli tanks up until the Merkava III. Turkish license built versions by MKEK under the designation of M68T for the 90mm armed M48 took place in the 1980's.
- M68A1E4
- Variant of the U.S. M68 designed for use on the Stryker MGS, fitted with an automatic loader.
- KM68A1
- Republic of Korea Army's licence-produced variant of the American M68 gun. Used on M48A3K, M48A5K and K1 tanks.
- Type 79/81/83
- Chinese copies of an L7 supplied by Austria.
- FM K.4 Modelo 1L
- Argentine Army's license produced by Fabricaciones Militares in Argentina. Used on the TAM medium tank.
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