Definition of autoloader - a mechanical aid or replacement for the personnel that load ordnance into crew-served weapons, such as tanks and artillery.
AMX-13 autoloader eliminated the need for the loader position cutting the crew from 4 to 3. The gun could fire 10 rounds in under a minute without the need of human interaction with the ammo. It meets the definition quite well. Just because it doesn't meet YOUR definition of autoloader meaning any loader that isn't French doesn't mean a thing. The AMX-13 and its autoloader was the most successful Light Tank of the Cold War.
1) It is not autoloader, the whole cycle is not automated, or in a different way, actually autoloader is also incorrect term, the correct term is mechanical or mechanized loading system, because the system is a mechanical device, autoloader is just shorter thus simpler term.
Also France did not developed autoloaders, the first country with such design was USA, however design was not implemented in any fielded tank.
The prototype with this system was designated T22E1:
One prototype was builded.
Also Germans were experimenting with autoloading mechanism but most probably it was not in as advanced stage as US project.
Damn guy, you are such a juvenile to not recognise the conversation which is the FIRST smoothbore on a tank. It isn't the rifled barrel of the AMX-30B2 but the smoothbore of the original AMX-30. It wasn't rifled until the B2 upgrade to take standard NATO 105mm rounds.
Lay off the wiki next time...
http://www.armyrecognition.com/main_...iption_uk.html
AMX-30 Main Battle Tank (France)
Army Guide - AMX-30, Main battle tank
These informations are incorrect, AMX-30 tank never used smoothbore gun, CN-105-F1 was a rifled gun from the start, this is why HEAT ammunition needed special race ring to prevent spin of the warhead and decrease in penetration values of shaped charge jet.
Army Guide - CN105F1 (MECA), Gun
Chilean Armor
AMX-30 Main Battle Tank
As we can see other sources says us that AMX-30 gun was rifled.
BTW it seems that in Your links they are just confused CN-105-F1 gun with a Rhinemetall gun that was never mounted in any French tank, also they probably confused designation with CN-120/26 120mm smoothbore gun. Besides this logic in Your words is just incredible, why the hell they would first mount more modenr smoothbore gun and then replace it with such relic like rifled gun? Where is logic?
I don't know man, you must be pretty dense to not know the difference between Youtube movies and a tank documentary from The Military Channel, fka Discovery Wings.
? In any case these sources are poor and unreliabale.
You have ever been inside a tank? I don't believe!! You don't have a clue what you are whining about.
And You probably sit in a tank, and You are probably a war hero, yes yes, we belive in Your huge and incredible "knowledge"!
No I never sit in a tank, however I saw interior photos of more AFV's than You are availabale to ever imagine.
Just like you got owned talking about Russia invading the EU.
First as obvious You did not understand anything what I wrote there, second Russia have any means to do that successfully, especially with reductions in European countries arsenals, in UK it allready can be called insane where currently plans says to leave only 35 tanks in the entire RAC, 35 tanks, one regiment.
Vladimir79
Armand, are you done schooling this guy or are you going to leave him to his own devices? You know he is only trolling you.
Only person trolling here is You, do You have any arguments for discussion? No? So fuck off...