polish armed forces not beating allegations of competence
they also managed to toss a turret in leopard, during training. no, they weren’t shot at
what happened was that gunner loaded a main gun shell, but wasn’t supposed to. so he tried to extract it, but it broke, and because there was already some shooting that day, propellant fell on bucket of hot stubs, igniting immediately. it was decided that it was fault of ammo that was not up to spec. (2015)
polish armed forces not beating allegations of competence
they also managed to toss a turret in leopard, during training. no, they weren’t shot at
what happened was that gunner loaded a main gun shell, but wasn’t supposed to. so he tried to extract it, but it broke, and because there was already some shooting that day, propellant fell on bucket of hot stubs, igniting immediately. it was decided that it was fault of ammo that was not up to spec. (2015)
I assume it was a TPK? :(
Loader died month later, the rest was burned but survived. Driver went home the same day. Ammo used was past expiry date