I have to agree with what Don said, but I still think there is a minor incoherency in the ROF parametering: how come the ROFs on autoloading tanks depends so much on crew training, since one of the main advantages of the thing, faster than hand loading or not, is that you can give it away to less-trained crew without loader and have a decent ROF? The ROF determination should be mostly technical, either slower on Russian tanks (?) or faster for ither autoloaders (Strv-103, Type-90, Leclerc...).
I guess this point can be turned out by relating to the fact that the game "ROF" (i.e. shots-per-turn) takes many other factors into account and is no exact "gun reload delay" except for artillery. In that perspective the crew has a lot to do with it: what is the point of autoloading your gun in 4 sec when the (inexperienced) crew takes one more minute to zero in on the target?
Sigh, I guess I contradicted myself yet again...
Anyway, I hope I made some kind of point though!
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Shadowcougar said:
I do wonder if the T-80 and other tanks suffer the real problem with the 152 gun launcher. The shock of the gun screws up the electronics of the missile control system.
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Probably not, remember that the Sheridan was having these problems even with standard gun rounds because of the huge caliber/ propellant mass relating to the vehicle mass. Modern Russian tanks fire lighter missiles from their standard 125mm gun which they have no big problem firing in general cases. And I guess the amount of propellant charge used to fire the missiles isn't that huge, since the missile will be propelled on a further part of its trajectory, and you would risk smashing up the missile's electronics anyway...