I seem to recall from reading Suvorov a long time ago, the Soviets had one way to avoid having the wrong kind of ammunition showing up. I think it was the 122mm rockets: they were labelled as 125mm in every instance, so that 122mm howitzer shells wouldn't be sent to the rocket regiments.
So why do we make both 105mm howitzer and tank guns? The howitzers came first-- Why weren't the tank guns 100mm or 110mm? Or 108 or 103?
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