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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 15, 1984
Filed:
Mar. 29, 1982
Applicant:
Inventors:
Ferenc Kotai, Munich, DE;
Markus Spotzl, Munich, DE;
Erich Drosen, Munich, DE;
Leo Pongratz, Karlsfeld, DE;
Assignee:
Krauss-Maffei Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F41H / ; F41H / ; F41H / ; F41F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
89 3 / ; 89 45 ;
Abstract
A tank turret has a forward crew compartment separated by an armored partition from a rear munitions compartment. The rounds are stored in a nonrotatable sector and are turned toward a space at the centrum of the sector at which a loading device is rotatable to extract rounds from the magazine and feed them through a hole in the partition into the breach opening.