20世纪90年代初以来,坦克研制领域处于领先水平的俄罗斯、美国、德国、法国积极开展了未来坦克的研制工作。在这种情况下,未来坦克总体布局、乘员组成和任务分工的解决方案,就成了备受关注的话题。完善坦克的性能,减少乘员可以通过安装自动装弹机来实现,这是当时所有西方国家在研究未来坦克时提出的解决方案。这样做的好处是,可以达到少占用坦克内部空间,在不大幅增加重量的情况下提升坦克的防护能力。 Since the early 1990s, Russia, the United States, Germany and France, which are at the leading level in tank research and development, have been actively carrying out the research and development of the future tank. Under such circumstances, the solution to the overall layout of the tank in the future, the composition of crew members and the division of tasks has become a topic of great concern. Perfecting the performance of the tank and reducing the number of occupants could be achieved by installing an autoloader, a solution all Western countries were studying while studying the future of tanks. The benefits of doing so is to achieve less occupied tank interior space, without increasing the weight of the case greatly enhance the protection of the tank.