Id be really happy if gaijin could animate the auto-loader on the Strv m/42 DT
The 3 round Magazine holds the ammunition While a Chain/Thread powered by an Crank, with a small arm grabs the round and pushes it into the mechanical arm. The arm then Lifts the round to the breach. The round then gets shoved into the breech, This could be done
“the best performance of the autoloader was determined as 4 rounds in 8,2 seconds.”
I could only find in these documents that it could fire 8 rounds in rapid succession. Im guessing that meant the loader was filling the Magazine while the gun was firing. This in turn means that the system must have been automated in someway. There is also mention of Bofors exploring the effect of an electrical Drive system for the Loading system.(2nd picture below)
I’m interested if anyone definitively knows how the operation of the “autoloader” for the Delat Torn worked.
Obviously the loading system’s “magazine” had to be manually replenished, but was the rest of the loading process entirely mechanically automated (the conveying of the round onto the “loading tray”, movement of the tray in-line with the breech, and the ramming of the round)? Was this all accomplished using recoil and/or electric operation?
Or was the process semi-manual?
Judging by the appearance of the gun, my assumption is that the conveyance of the next shell to the “loading tray” is accomplished using a manual hand-crank. The rest of the operation is unclear to me (I’m particularly interested on whether the shell is automatically rammed into the breech, as I cannot understand how this is accomplished based on the side drawing or the in-game model).
