Bore evacuator

Bore evacuator

A bore evacuator is a device on the gun barrel of an armoured fighting vehicle which helps prevent poisonous propellant gases from venting back into the vehicle's fighting compartment when the gun breech is opened to load another shell. Bore evacuators are most often used on large-calibre tank guns and self-propelled guns. Without bore evacuators, gases leak into the tank's interior, filling the tank with a foul odor that can induce nausea and cause distraction in the crewmen. ()

The evacuator is a reservoir that holds the super-heated, high-pressure propellant gases produced by the firing of a shell, then releases them as the shell exits the barrel. When not in use, the atmosphere inside the barrel remains the same as the surrounding environment; thus it is the same, or nearly so, inside the evacuator.

As the shell passes through, an opening into the bore takes in the gases, containing them until the shell has exited, then releases them back into the barrel. The openings are angled toward the muzzle, so the stream of still fairly high pressure gas drags both combustion gas in the barrel and fresh air from the open breech toward the muzzle. This reduces the chances of these explosive propellents to flow back into the cabin and cause combustion as they mingle with oxygen, though this can still happen if the evacuator is poorly designed. It is becoming a common feature of most modern tanks.

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