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Another thing is that with things like tanks, you have to take into account space considerations and not just the turret assembly either, we're talking about what you could call 'infrastructure' too. Electric drives eat a lot of power to move heavy things, that's why ships had electric turret...

From my understanding, most of the time the hydraulic turret drives are just more space-efficient. Electrical drives had the problem of being large as hell for their capabilities for the longest time. The reason that US hydraulics had this bad reputation is either a) they're forced to do far...