Kuka Wehrtechnik Gmbh

Josef Jorg

Gert Kaustrater

Wolfgang Eyb

Rudolf Bobinger

Helmut Janda

An apparatus for loading tubular weapons with a propellant charge chamber comprises a loading arm pivotably mounted on the pivot bearing of the barrel and having a loading tray for a shell and a rammer engaging on the shell bottom and having a drive, the shell being brought by means of the loading arm into a starting position aligned with the barrel bore axis and transported by means of the rammer into the barrel, into whose rifling it is rammed. In order to allow a completely satisfactory ramming, the loading tray can be moved in a guide on the loading arm between the starting position and a support position centered on the barrel and that the rammer has a support retracted in the starting position and engaging on the shell bottom and which can be brought into a stretched position synchronously with the movement of the loading tray into the support position and in said stretched position can be moved in a guide by means of the drive relative to the loading tray and while accelerating the shell into the barrel.

Apparatus for loading tubular weapons, particularly tank howitzers

An armoured car or vehicle with front wheel drive has a vehicle hull and a turret with gun, as well as a front revolving magazine located on the bottom of the turret platform in the vicinity of the gun for large caliber ammunition inserted in upright form. In order to be able to carry maximum ammunition stocks within the vehicle and ensure a mechanized, automatic ammunition flow, on the bottom of the vehicle hull behind the front revolving magazine is provided a rear revolving magazine largely filling the rear vehicle space and receiving the ammunition in standing form and between the two revolving magazines is provided a transfer mechanism occupying an empty position on the front revolving magazine from the rear revolving magazine.

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Josef Jorg