Patent ID: 7231863

Claim:
An arrangement for retrieving large-caliber ammunition from an ammunition magazine and transferring the ammunition to a loading and ramming position, in which a respective ammunition unit is located directly behind and coaxially aligned with a barrel of a large-caliber weapon, said barrel being pivotable around a horizontal axis to assume different elevation positions, the arrangement comprises: a swing arm which is pivotally mounted around the horizontal axis between a retrieving position and a delivery position for each ammunition unit; and an ammunition pickup unit pivotally attached to the swing arm at a distance from the horizontal axis and pivotal from a first angular position relative to the swing arm for receiving an ammunition unit from the magazine, to a second angular position relative to the swing arm by the force of gravity to assume an ammunition delivery position thereof, said ammunition pickup unit being movable in a single vertical plane from the receiving to the delivery position of the pickup unit, said plane essentially coincides with a vertical plane through a longitudinal center axis of the barrel.