Horizontal drive is separate on the gunners side of the turret.
If it does use hydraulic fluid, it is supplied by the slip ring, unless the t80 uses bluetooth hydraulic fluid
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The slip ring shown in the picture is also about the size of a large alarm clock, on the turret floor.
So is every other tank
But doesn’t the drive need power and/or oil pressure? or does it have it’s own generator in the turret as well?
Yes, but you are saying:
Where yes, it does, but it’s also not a system like the Abrams and Leo have in the basket.
The autoloaders are built into the turret, not the hull, they rotate with the turret in order to keep the shells in line with the turret. It IS supplied by either hydraulic fluid or electric
See ‘Autoloader’ section
No they aren’t actually, they are mechanically separate.
You’re right. I’m wrong about that. It is built into the hull. It wouldn’t be able to load anyway without the turret drive " As usual, the gun needs to be lifted to a fixed angle to line it up properly for the loading mechanism to ram fresh rounds into the chamber, and this is done by the hydraulic vertical stabilizer piston of the cannon. To hold it in place, the gun is hydrolocked."
Also to clarify it better, the autoloader is the only Hyraulic driven part, the actual drives in the turret are hydro-electric. The revisor was in the turret with the drives by the commanders head it says here.
I can’t see an answer to my question on that page (at least in that section). It just talks about how it functions, not where the hydraulic pressure/electricity is supplied from.
Read above post image
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So, to be clear to both you and @Necronomica at the same time.
The generator for the hydraulic systems in the hull give power feed through the slip ring, to all the hydraulic-electric elements that are in the turret.
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So we’re back at square one, if the slip ring is hit the T-series is a dead duck. If there’s no power, the hydro-electric generator doesn’t get power, the turret can’t rotate or move vertically, no thermals etc. The autoloader wouldn’t be able to load either since it needs vertical stabilization to work
So then without that electric supply the vertical and horisontal drives can’t work then?
Well, kinda. There’s no proof of backup power or batteries in the turret. (Not even mentioning how hard it would even be to hit the slip ring)