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Want technical comparison of the Armata and the M1 pertaining to rounds cooking off in turret?

Too easy. I shared this analysis on my football site. Enjoy!

I will now address the rounds exploding in the turrets of both tanks.

The M1 rounds are stored in the back of the turret in its own compartment called the ready rack. When I order load sabot the loader pushes a switch and a metal door slides open, he grabs a round, then he chambers it. I apologize but I don’t remember the thickness of the of the sliding door. Perhaps 3 inches thick and probably made of depleted uranium. When he grabs a round the sliding door will be close automatically to protect the crew.

Above the ammo rack are blow out panels on the back top of the turret. These panels are designed to be the weakest part of the turret. With the blow out panels and metal sliding doors the concept is to protect the crew. If the ammunition in the ammo rack cooks off, the M1 was designed so the rounds shoot straight up and through the panels into the air. It’s like pressure building up and the weakest point of the system will break first, and the blow out panels in the back rear of the turret is the weakest point.

The Armata is easy to explain. The Armata has an auto loader. The rounds were not designed to go up, but unintentionally the turret was designed for the rounds in the turret to cook off in many directions. Idiots! lol

Ammunition being in the proximity of the tank crew instead of being in a separate compartment that could blow away and deflect the Blast away from the tank after the problem for decades. You see in the movie Fury, this happens to one of the tanks that got hit by the Tiger tank 88 mm round.
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SGT Charlie Lee MAJ Ken Landgren