Comments by "Far Centrist" (@far_centrist) on "FRANCE 24 in Ukraine: Ukraine hits bridge linking Crimea to mainland in counteroffensive" video.
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@richardkey1678 wow, you clearly have no idea how tank works.
Ruz tanks have autoloaders, which reduces the crew size and speed up reload. The shell is placed in a "carousel" mounted under the turret. When the shell penetrates the turrets and hits the carousel, it triggers an explosion. But this isn't that common of an occurrence, most of the tanks were actually disabled by mines and artillery. In case of artillery, no tanks or crews can survive a direct hit, be it weztern or ruz tanks. In case of mines, mostly what happens is the crew left the tank, and then drones dropped a bomb through the open latch to prevent its recovery either by the enemies, which launched the turrets away. This is mostly true for T72 and some T80 model. I'll explain further below.
Western tanks like the arbams has no autoloaders, instead it is manually reloaded by a crew. The shell is stored INSIDE the tanks, protected by a blowout panel. The blowout panel does helps prevent catastrophic explosions killing the crew, but it's not a guaranteed 100% protection, it depends on where it got hit and how. Even when there's no direct hit, the storage sliding panel alone is infamous for injuring the loader's hand.
T90 carousels had a protection around the carousel which prevents the shell from hitting the carousel, and will prevent the death of the crew, while the T15 is actually WAY safer, more modern design. In fact, it is the only 4th generation tank available for now. The panther is still in the testing phase while arbams x is still pretty much a sketch.
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