The problem of the loader has always been noisy among military fans, especially the turntable loader, the black Uncle Ogura human flesh loader, the scramble is nothing more than the butt decides the head, the advantages and disadvantages of which are not discussed in this article, mainly to discuss the improvement of the 99A automatic loader, including the idea of the next generation of main battle tank loader.
The 99A tank's autoloader itself is similar to that of the T-72 tank, which is nothing to avoid and can quickly reload shells. It is capable of increasing the rate of fire and efficiency of the tank, which increases the combat effectiveness and survivability of the tank. At the same time, due to the high degree of automation, the risk of personnel being exposed to enemy fire is reduced, and the overall combat effectiveness of the tank is increased.
The 1,99 turntable auto-reload can reduce the space required by the loader, thereby reducing the frontal projection area of the tank, thereby improving concealment and protection. (It can be roughly understood that there are fewer people in the turret, and the volume becomes smaller.) So the 99 tank loader can achieve the same defense as the Western heavy tank with a smaller weight and volume, which is very critical.
2. The loading mechanism of the turntable loader is completely covered by the projection of the car body, and the position is very low, which is difficult to hit and can effectively improve the protection.
But there are always people who raise the issue of ammunition detonation, in fact, this is different from what many people think, the tank that uses a Russian tank automatic loader is not killed because of the turntable loader. As for the ammunition placed around the body, because only more than 20 rounds can be placed in the turntable, the other ammunition is placed around the body. And most of the ammunition of the 125 tank gun is a combustible cartridge, which can be understood as paper, which is very easy to detonate.
Therefore, the focus should be on the effective processing and protection of ammunition that is not in the turntable loader, this piece of Russia already has a plan, that is, the T90M program, put the excess ammunition in the tail compartment, and the personnel in the car, ammunition isolated, similar to the Western tail compartment loading, but also has its drawbacks, in fact, it is equivalent to a vehicle ammunition depot outside the car, which cannot be integrated with the loading mechanism in the car.
Similarly, we can take a look at the German Leopard II tank, although there is a compartment, there is still a large amount of ammunition in the body, which is the main reason why the Leopard II tank also has a large number of flying turrets in the Russian-Ukrainian battlefield.
1. I think a reasonable solution is to install two, namely the turntable and the tail warehouse, which will almost not break at the same time, so the reliability is excellent, and breaking one will not affect the battle. Moreover, ammunition can be treated differently, and the armor-piercing shells are deployed in the turntable loader, and the lethal grenades are placed in the tail bin loader.
2.The tail compartment loader can accommodate longer armor-piercing bullets, which can solve the problem of sub-loading bullets criticized by netizens and the length of the armor-piercing bullet core, which is also easily solved.
3.It shortens the selection time and increases the rate of fire. Because the two loaders can correspond to different types of bullets, no matter which type of ammunition you choose, you can pick up the bullet nearby. One is loaded, and the other is directly reserved, similar to the dual-link feed of naval guns.
4.It can effectively reduce the amount of ammunition in the vehicle body and reduce the risk of ammunition explosion.
5.Once all the ammunition of the tank is in the loader, the next generation of tanks can be turret-free.