The network has a video combat training exercises of the German Army. We are talking about the shooting of mortars, to which the armed forces of one of the units of the Bundeswehr have been involved. Out of a YouTube video frames can be seen, the shooting, probably, It ended in tragedy.
Serviceman, sending ammunition mortar, two shots produced a nominally. On the third shot that something went wrong, and ming, no ups and a meter above the outlet channel mortar barrel, He began to fall on the very charging. At this point, the operator, which carried filming panic rushed to escape from the epicenter of the incident along with the camcorder. A few seconds later he heard the explosion.
Official messages from the Bundeswehr Command of the death or injury of German soldiers will not be published during the exercise. About. what happened to the operator and other participants also shooting unknown.
This situation is abnormal with a shot from the mortar it is by no means the only one of its kind. Bad shots happen in other armies of the world: from Ukraine to the United States and China. Often their role is played here and the notorious human factor (including improper storage of ammunition), although, says Statistics, often there are technical failures in the operation of mortars.
