FIGHTING COMPARTMENT OF OBJECTS OF ARMORED FIGHTING VEHICLES Russian patent published in 2000 - IPC

FIELD: armament, in particular, fighting compartments of fighting vehicles of land forces, as well as of marine and river objects. SUBSTANCE: the fighting compartment comprises an artillery gun and a loading controller. The loading controlled has a conveyer attached to the round floor of the fighting compartment in the form of a disk, the conveyer accommodates the rounds, and a round loading mechanism. The round loading mechanism has a mechanism for feeding the round to the loading line and mechanism for feeding the round to the barrel with their drives. The conveyer of the loading controller is made annular, located equidistantly to the floor and attached to it by means of a ball race. The conveyer has the shape of a horizontally positioned squirrel cage, with vertically installed sleeves located between its ties for their inclination inside the fighting compartment. Through vertical slots are made in the cylindrical walls of the sleeves in the front and rear parts of the duct. EFFECT: reduced time of loading of fixed rounds of different length due to automation of the loading operations. 8 dwg