Burlak turret, autoloader and gun?

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I had a couple of questions about the Burlak turret.

  1. It used an auto-loader similar to the Leclerc and Type 10, so does anyone know what the reload speed was?

  2. What canon was it armed with? Some say it used the 2A82 ( same as the T-14) while others say it uses the 2A46-M1 like the BVM)

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there is quite literally 0 info known on it as the project went nowhere

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I believe it’s around 4.0-seconds reload considering the design and the easier insertion of both shell and charger in the breech with one single move, instead of the dual-stage loading process from the conventional T-72 and T-80 autoloading mechanism;

Considering how the project is secret and barely documented to public, I believe either is a 2A46M 125 mm smoothbore cannon as the 2A82-1M appeared way after the initial development of the Burlak Combat Module (I believe that because it was equipped in both T-80 and T-90, just like the Berezhok Combat Module on the BMP-2M).

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