Kirov Plant
The design bureau of the Kirov Plant under the leadership of IA Makhanov responded by creating a variant of the L-11 which it called the L-17. The L-17 was mounted in a heavily armored gun mantlet with the barrel inside of an armored tube. In May 1939, the Kirov plant received an order for six-hundred L-17 guns. During testing between September 29 and October 8, 1939 the L-17 withstood the impact of a 76 mm armor piercing projectile fired from a M1902/30 field gun at a velocity of at a distance of . The first L-17's were installed in June 1940 in the Kamenets-Podilsky fortified area.