Posted on 07/30/2020 12:11:42 AM PDT by L.A.Justice
EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14) KFOX14 has learned a Ft. Bliss soldier was seriously injured during a training session last week when his tank was accidentally shot by another tank.
Now witnesses say the Army needs to be held accountable for the accident.
The life of a soldier, potentially two soldiers, was put at risk, said a witness to the accident.
Around 3 a.m. on Monday, July 20, a witness said he was watching a training session on Ft. Bliss where tanks were shooting live rounds at wooden targets.
There was a live fire exercise going on, in which these tanks were basically simulating fighting against an enemy, said the witness.
But during the exercise, the witness said one of the tanks accidentally identified another tank as a target, turning the simulated war game into the real thing.
(Excerpt) Read more at kfoxtv.com ...
Just combustible, it comes out the muzzle as burnt particles mostly. This was a development after the caseless 152mm ammo used in the Sheridan and some versions of the M60 turned out to be a horribly, lethally bad idea for the crews. Other nations in NATO had equally unpleasant experience with large caseless rounds in manned turrets for different reasons and basically nobody seems to have been terribly interested in trying that again. NATO standard these days is for a semi-combustible case round with an obturating baseplate - which gets you most of the advantage of a caseless round without most of the “whoops, a burning shard or a malfunctioning autoloader just set off the explosives that are the propellant in a caseless round” disadvantages.
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i was gonna post this to back when but i couldn’t find it...
from the look on her face you can tell shes done it before the clip starts
Russian tanker brings girlfriend/wife to work 8^)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9sfPK06ZDU
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