>>49601
He does not seem to know what he is talking about.

He is wrong about Kursk but that is not related to this.

The footage of the convoys being destroyed early in the war was caused by Russian air defence being turned off, they assumed all planes would be their own and they were also using electronic warfare at the time that would interfere with AA(this is also why we got recordings of open radio coms early in the war, because they had to resort to it due to their own electronic warfare). But one will also notice that this went away very quickly and we have not seen footage like that sense. Because their AA was activated again. But this is not really related to tanks per say either.

He says no western tanks use Autoloaders, this is clearly wrong.

Anyway, regarding Autoloaders and Russian tanks in general. The Carousel is not actually as big of an issue as people make it out to be, it's located fairly low down so it's hard to hit, it's probably less likely or just about as likely to be hit as the ammunition stored in the front of a Leopard 2.
The main issue that caused such explosions(which are not unique to Soviet tanks by the way, we have images of Leopard 2s in the same state) was that spare ammunition was stored all over the fighting compartment and that was more likely to be hit, the T-90 solved this by adding a western style ammo store in the back of the turret. I'm not saying this is ideal, the carousel is still a danger but less of one than people think.

Another drawback of the carousel is that it limits the length of ammunition being fired, that is probably a bigger issues as it limits the length of the dart making it be able to penetrate less armour.

Other issues of Soviet tanks are that they have slow reverse speeds, poor ERA coverage, many lack thermals and they are ugly.