Are you sure? I thought the CR2 has always had the L30?
The two part ammunition prevents burying the Sabot round into the propellant case as in the Rheinmetall gun, and the stowage limits the size of the projectile - the L27 is thus apparently only a bit larger than the 1980s M829, and L23/Jericho is considerably smaller. Similar considerations that limit the performance of "Soviet" 125mm rounds to their lower values.
Something like M829A3 is in a totally different class.
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