Re: Binary Propellant Guns

On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Thomas Barclay of the Clan Barclay wrote:

> 4: Go to an autoloader (it's about time).

Tankers generally hate the idea of an autoloader because if it caughs up

during a battle you are screwed. 

Another bigger consideration is that an autoloader can't drive the tank 
if the driver gets injured, it can't help repair a track or help 
retension it, it cannot sit out at an OP during a lull and chat on the 
sound powered telephone with the Platoon LT about the 4 BTRs it sees 2 
kliks away at the crossroads. Loaders (the human kind) are critical in 
daily life of keeping the tank healthy and performing duties other than 
pulling a sabot round from the ammo bin and shoving it into the gun's 
hungry mouth. 

The addition of an Auto loader would require a major amount of
rethinking 
general tanker doctrine and operations from day to day. 

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