TANK TURRET AUTOMATIC LOADER Russian patent published in 2009 - IPC F41A9/38 

FIELD: weapons.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to armored vehicles, particularly, to tank armament. Proposed tank with turret automatic loader comprises armored shell, full-tracked chassis, power plant, rotary turret with gun arranged at its front. The automatic loader is mounted at the turret rear and comprises housing, set of quick-firing rounds arranged parallel to the turret lengthwise axis, belt conveyor to deliver rounds to loading position, mechanisms to ram rounds into barrel and to extract cartridge case after shot. The automatic loader main part represents a detachable automated parallelepiped-like cluster fitted in the turret rear recess.

EFFECT: possibility to use long-range guided missiles to hit armored targets ar larger ranges outside field of vision.

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