Responding To Dev Server Feedback Regarding Turret Baskets

[AlvisWisla]

Glad to see you’re on our side after claiming we were wrong for months about this.

[Necronomica]

@AlvisWisla

Abrams turret drive starts with the floor connection though. Good ol’ 1970s technology that our engineers decided didn’t need updating.

Cause while the T-series tanks have all of their drive mechanisms along the turret ring, and Abrams starts from the basket floor.

I just realized an additional answer to this other than the previous ones i’ve already given above. The T-serries (not sure if all or just some) also have a slip ring equivalent at the bottom center of the “basket” in the same way Abrams does.

@Zyranovos

[Zyranovos]

Slip ring would only supply power to the electronics though. So no NVD or thermals, that’s pretty much all it would nerf.

[ileaveuptiers]

So the autoloaders, turret rotational drives and vertical drives run on magic?

[Necronomica]

Doesn’t the drives also need power? or are there separate generators/pumps in the turret for the drives?

[Zyranovos]

They run on magical hydraulic fluid in the T-80

[Zyranovos]

Horizontal drive is separate on the gunners side of the turret.

[ileaveuptiers]

If it does use hydraulic fluid, it is supplied by the slip ring, unless the t80 uses bluetooth hydraulic fluid

[Zyranovos]

The slip ring shown in the picture is also about the size of a large alarm clock, on the turret floor.

[ileaveuptiers]

So is every other tank

[Necronomica]

But doesn’t the drive need power and/or oil pressure? or does it have it’s own generator in the turret as well?

[Zyranovos]

Yes, but you are saying:

@ileaveuptiers

Hitting a tank there with an autoloader should not only stop the aiming drives, but also knock out the autoloader, and thermals. If Gaijin is not going to model every single electrical connection going to said components, then the hydraulics should be removed.

Where yes, it does, but it’s also not a system like the Abrams and Leo have in the basket.

[ileaveuptiers]

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

[Zyranovos]

See ‘Autoloader’ section

T-80

[Zyranovos]

No they aren’t actually, they are mechanically separate.

[ileaveuptiers]

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."

[Zyranovos]

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.

[Necronomica]

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.

[ileaveuptiers]

[Zyranovos]

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