Its most distinctive feature is theoscillating turret armed with a 75mm gun fed by an automatic loading mechanism.At the time of its introduction, the oscillating feature was a novelty, itsmain draw being the ability to mount a rather large gun on vehicles with smallturret ring diameters, allowing even compact Light Tanks to be armed with gunsusually restricted to much heavier vehicles. The turret consists of two parts,the lower part connected to the turret ring and the upper part connected to thelower part by the means of a trunnion set. The upper part moves up and downalong with the gun itself on the trunnions, allowing for considerably bettergun depression that would otherwise not be possible.
AMX-13最有特色的地方就是它那个装备一门带自动装弹机的75炮的摇摆炮塔。摇摆炮塔这个新鲜玩意的主要作用就是把一门大炮塞到一个小的炮塔座圈里,这使得小车扛大炮成了可能。摇摆炮塔有两部分,下部连接到炮塔座圈,上部是炮塔吊耳,然后再上下连接好,上部随着火炮的耳轴移动以获得更好的俯角,不然就成了颈椎病
The French 75mm gun, actually developed fromthe Panther gun, was fed by two 6-round drums and an automatic loader. Contraryto popular belief, the drums could actually be reloaded from inside of thevehicle but the process was extremely slow, awkward and practically impossibleto perform while the vehicle was moving. Shooting all 12 rounds from both drumsusually meant the vehicle had to retreat to safety before the crew couldreload.
法国人的75炮技术师承黑豹的钓鱼竿,有两个6发弹鼓并且带自动装弹机。和现在时兴的自动装弹机不一样的是,弹鼓虽然可以在车内装弹,但是装弹时过程极其缓慢,而且不能在跑路的时候完成装弹。打完弹鼓的12发之后通常就意味着需要跑路(装完逼就跑~

)躲到安全的地方重装