A thermal sleeve is a device around the length of a gun barrel of a large caliber gun, typically found on modern tanks. Its primary purpose is to prevent the gun barrel from being thermally distorted due to environmental conditions, especially when the barrel is already hot due to frequent firing. One of the earliest guns to use a thermal sleeve was the Royal Ordnance L11 used on the Chieftain tank.
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