"SKOROPEYA-2" TANK AUTOMATIC LOADER SYSTEM Russian patent published in 2009 - IPC F41A9/38 

FIELD: weapons.

SUBSTANCE: inventions relates to armored vehicles, particularly, to automatic loaders. Proposed system comprises mechanism to lay out rounds, device to select required round and to deliver it to loading position, device to ram round into barrel, mechanism to automatically lock and unlock the breech block and that to extract cartridge case sabot and throw it outside. The free operating compartment accommodates movable loading bed with rammer. Movable armored partition is arranged between round-lay-out mechanism and turret crew-compartment. Turret rear is either detachable or swing-out design. The system allows its coupling with round conveyor-loading machine, extracting spent set of laid-out rounds and replacing it with new loaded one. Crosswise feed one replaces lengthwise feed of rounds. Proposed invention provides for fast laid-out-round set reloading and improved armored protection of ammunition load thanks to its arrangement behind the turret thick-wall armor, higher rate of fire due reduced time of feeding a round onto the bed and simpler design of bed drive.

EFFECT: possibility to use 125 mm-caliber 1200 mm-long rounds and piercing finned subcaliber round with length of up to 1100 mm.

7 cl, 6 dwg