MECHANIZED AMMUNITION STOWAGE Russian patent published in 2001 - IPC

FIELD: military equipment, applicable in self- propelled artillery and armored equipment. SUBSTANCE: mechanized ammunition stowage drive is made with a device providing for movement of the seats with a step exceeding the distance between the adjacent seats by n times, where n is an integer exceeding the unity of the first half of the numerical series, including the mean value of the odd series that has no common divisor with a total quantity of seats in the chain. The largest number of this series does not exceed the total quantity of seats. EFFECT: reduced unbalanced inertial forces acting on the stowage drive. 4 dwg