That looked like a 5s reload to me :)
It’s like 4.84 or something, but who’s counting?
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yea
Dont let US mains see that…bu´mu´murica reload rate bla bla
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5 seconds to load the shell itself, +1.5 seconds (being generous) to dial in the shell that is to be loaded into position, AKA 6.5 seconds as ingame.
You can’t start timing the process halfway through. Shells don’t just spawn underneath the breech. The carousel rotating the new shell into position is a part of the reload process.
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Except when it is in the “Sequence” mode which is used if you load only one type of shell which automatically after one shell is loaded immediately rotates the carrousel and prepares the next shell to be brought up
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Very incorrect. I don’t get where people get that info from.
The computer tracks the shell type, and gets it ready so when the gunner fires, unless the gunner literally tells the computer not to load the next shell it will load it. And it was 4.84~ for that load time for the arm to clear.
Why do people think Russian vehicles are purely mechanical and no computer systems are on board?
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Is that a thing? Are there videos of this, the shells being dialed in and ready before the reload begins? It could be a way of achieving a rate of fire increase for Russian and Chinese tanks.
The loader don’t need all of one type. It catalogs the positions of every shell and what she’ll type it is
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There are videos, you can find them. If I had a manual, i would find the exact page but… sadly I don’t have the manual 🥲
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It is, Tankograd has a nice paragraph about it
May you share? The only autoloader videos I can find have like 33 years of carousel rotating before the actual process begins xD
If a report could be made about this, we could be looking at:
T-80s: 5 second reload
ZTZ/VT/WZs: 6.5 second reload
Both of those figures are timing the reloads themselves from videos, excluding all carousel action.
Sadly, T-72s and T-90s would retain the 7.1 second reload, they are just that slow, even without any carousel action xD.
Yeah, I just wanted to simplify it. Sequence mode is iirc only present on the T80 autoloaders?
Post 1989 T72s I do believe have it too
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I can try to find a vid quick, a bit busy, there are many bug reports of it, but they get shot down for “balance reasons” according to gaijin
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Is it the same as T80? The 6ETs11?
In that case, T-72 and 90s already include that timing ingame. Watch; 7 seconds even without any carousel action.
The only tanks that could benefit from the recognition of this mechanic would be the T-80s and the Chinese tanks. I would warmly welcome this, I love Chinese tanks but the reload is a big turnoff, hahahah (also give them their damn spall liners Gaijin!)
T72 is inferior to the T80 autoloader in the reload speed section. Also we aint talking about T72 or at least I am not, its reload is fine
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Yeah, so it would make sense to keep the 7.1 second vale we have ingame already.
If the system you both talk about is a thing and can be proven, I think it could be cool to give the T-80s a 5 second reload and the ZTZ/WZ/VTs a 6.5 second one!
It’s not like T-80s are suffering, but I am always a fan of depicting all vehicles on their maximum capacity. That’s why I advocate for this, and why I advocate for T-90M and T-80BVM to get 3BM59 (slightly better than 3BM60) the same way I advocate for all of the Abrams and other tank-related stuff.
From this video it appears to be 6.5 secs
But I was talking more about the T80s reload speed. Sadly my go to video on the subject has become “Private”, “subject to a copyright strike” apparently