Figs. 4 and 5 show a longitudinal and a horizontal section through the tower of a lightly armored vehicle. The entire ammunition supply is arranged above the tower turntable. The advantages of this solution are clear: The ammunition supply is no longer done by the tower turntable, whereby the latter is variable in diameter under consideration of the antropotechnical requirements in diameter. By appropriate dimensioning of the ammunition space (with blow up direction), the ammunition can be protected against hits as well as if they were housed in the vehicle pan. If the ammunition really hit, the vehicle crew is better protected by the Ausblasrichtung and corresponding foreclosure of the ammunition space to the inside of the tower as in conventional tower designs. When planning boiler houses, similar considerations have been common for decades. The research would have to become active in the realization of the illustrated concept in the fields of strength calculation and detonation physics.

Fig. 6 differs from Fig. 5 in that the ammunition space is formed in the usual cubic shape. In him can be used according to the container principle, a fully ammunitioned metal box, whereby the time for Aufmunitioniern the vehicle could be significantly reduced.

Finally, Fig. 7 shows a possible conception of a new battle tank. The vehicle crew was completely removed from the tower and housed in a ballistically well-protected control room in the vehicle pan. Also, the protection against tactical nuclear weapons is easy to implement, since the associated extra weight of the relatively small operating space has little effect on the vehicle's total weight. With adequate protection of the entire tower with its outbreaks, returning weapon parts and co-donating cartridge cases, the total weight of the vehicle would be comparatively much higher.

The development of a Turmwaffenanlape with fully automatic loader for cartridged ammunition is no longer a problem today. To resolve any interference, the crew can get through a bulkhead in the control room in the vehicle pan and make the necessary manipulation of the weapon, loader and possibly also the vehicle drive.

According to the current state of the art, the judging of the weapon should not be done via a television camera; Rather, this is an extendable periscope, which is about 10:00 clock and 2:00 clock automatically moved into its under Beeobachtungsstellung between the tower positions, to prevent a collision with the weapon. The fully extended periscope also offers benefits when observing from a rear hanger position. Operating room, tower weapon system and drive unit of the vehicle should be easily and quickly replaced as assemblies. Also, the replacement of the pipe gun system - but in principle all ballistic missiles should be verschiessbar - against a missile or anti-aircraft gun system would be easily feasible. Here are the benefits of a modular design to advantage.

The mere fact that tactical fusion warheads can be manufactured relatively cheaply today in the smallest units of action should be reason enough to think about better battle tank conceptions. The efforts to date have been insufficient. Through industrial groups and client administration, there was little inclination to leave the old battle tank conceptions until the recent past. In the development of new battle tank families one runs the risk of cramming old concepts only with modern technology.

All these considerations are part of the research design phase. They have to be hired with a fixed task but without time pressure. Cost and time requirements can only be predicted with sufficient accuracy for the development phase. If necessary activities of the conception phase become part of development contracts, these contracts are usually not to be kept, since the research risks at the time of the conclusion of the contract are not in any way to be weighed.