The autoloader can carry 22 ready-to-fire rounds in its carousel and can load a round in 5–8 seconds. Like other modern Russian tanks the 2A46M in the T-90 is fed by an automatic loader which eliminates the need for a manual loader in the tank and reduces the crew to 3 (commander, gunner, and driver). The elevation of the tank allows it to hit hovering helicopters. It can also fire using Reflex and Cobra anti-tank guided missiles. The ammunition tank includes four types of missiles: armor-piercing, piercing, cumulative and high-explosive detonation from a remote system, allowing ammunition to explode at the desired point of the trajectory. The tank’s main weapon is a 125-mm smoothbore gun 2A46M-2. The tank is equipped with third-generation active armor, capable of withstanding an attack by 120-mm M829A2 and DM43A1 tank rounds, designed for the Abrams M1A1 and Leopard-2 tanks respectively. Its engine delivers 1,000 hp at 2,000 rpm. The T-90A featured a new engine and turret and was equipped with a thermal-vision system. Another 20 protection units are placed on the roof of the tower. The hull and the tower was also placed onto the new tank almost unchanged, but with an important improvement - the upper frontal part of the tower cast got built-in dynamic protection of seven blocks and one container. The T-90 retains the layout of the prototype T-72: in front there is the control compartment with the combat compartment in the middle.
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