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Smoothbore guns don't stabilize rounds as well as rifled guns, but they can fire rounds at higher velocities without suffering heavy damage to the gun tube.
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As I understand it gun tubes wear out anyway. They have a life expectancy of only a few hundred rounds. Can't remember the exact amount.
That's one of the many reasons the Iraqi tanks were so ineffectual. There old Soviet T-72 barrels were worn out.
Danny