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Originally Posted by Whispering Death autoloader has always been seen as a compromise... one that very very few countries have been brave enough to risk their soldiers for. Americans, Germans, Italians, English, South Africans, and Israelis view it as a compromise that puts soldiers at an extremely unneccesay risk of death. | Could you be more specific? A compromise between what? |
It' a tradeoff of having a load of live rounds in the turret with the crew and a little gain in speed of loading. In a manual loader, the rounds are kept in a container that has outer blast panels which direct an explosion to the outside of the tank. Actually, most loaders have another round in the breech before another target is acquired anyhow.