COMBAT COMPARTMENT Russian patent published in 2002 - IPC

FIELD: military equipment, specifically, combat vehicles fitted with artillery gun and automatic small arms with feed belts. SUBSTANCE: according to invention combat compartment has artillery gun, automatic loading machine anchored on floor of combat compartment, ring conveyer for artillery gun positioned equidistantly on floor and attached to it by means of ball race. Automatic gun is mounted for vertical and horizontal aiming together with artillery gun and is located in parallel to artillery gun. Magazine to house cartridges belts for automatic gun is installed inside ring conveyer equidistantly to floor. Magazine comes in the form of torus divided into sections. Seats for crew of combat compartment are anchored on left and right sections. Cross-section of torus in plane of vertical elevation of gun has form of trapezium. Bases of trapezium are perpendicular to floor of combat compartment. Upper side of trapezium is inclined inwards combat compartment to provide for maximum elevation angle of gun. EFFECT: enhanced firing efficiency of combat vehicle and diminished dimensions of combat compartment. 2 dwg