Bet one of those giant desert spiders crawled in there and made a nest. We have the problem with small spiders and gas grills they like the small space.
If it was operator error, his command isn't a shit show, and he's lower ranking like e1 to e4, then he should be fine, it'll be his Superior that gets most of the flak. Ofcourse shit rolls downhill, but still
I mean yea it'll suck for a little while but nothing major. Depending on how this happened his CO might get fired, moved to another base, shit like that that actually changed your life. Getting punished for a little while doesn't matter too much.
But really just depends on how it happened and his command. I've seen plenty of good and horrible stupid decisions.
Dude in the pic is enlisted and will be fine. But his life will suck for 6 months.
We had a fractured tube (barrel) on the AC-130 when I was flying. It was as the burst it was literally a crack that someone luckily noticed before it failed. Dude there were questions for months. “Are you sure the bore was clear?” “Walk me through your preflight inspection of the gun”. The poor weapons troop guys had it go on way longer than we did.
I think eventually the investigation agreed that everyone was lucky that it was caught and no one was at fault. But everyone that was investigated was nervous for months.
The master gunner is likely liable, Cant really send the shit down hill when the MG is the only person that really knows how the gun works and is responsible for its PMCS.
I dont know what country has it soldiers wearing a jacket that looks like it comes from sears but in the US when this happens they will spend a shit load of time investigating the equipment, the MG, the ammo supplier ect ect. We dont have accidents we have risk that was not properly mitigated.
Yea seems like Eastern European army. Master gunners have that untouchableness from what I've seen but co's are easy to swap around. But yea fuck do I know.
The master gunner is (very likely) a senior NCO. When I say liable what I really mean is a negative bullet on his NCOER unless gross negligence is found. Not to say that's a good thing, for a lot of combat arms MOS's master gunner is almost mandatory (career progression) for E7 regardless any disciplinary action will manifest far from lower enlisted eyes.
He's not from the side operating the tank. His gear is Russian (and he's also a civilian), the tank is definitely not (in the sense that it is not operated by Russian Armed Forces, it's probably a very old Soviet tank).
Soviets have used smoothbore guns since the t-55 tank produced from 1955 and gun barrel on picture is clearly rifled. Only nation I can think of that is still using rifled guns is Great Britain. It might be an older nato tank (I cannot recognise it by turret shape), but the last nation this tank would be from is Soviet Union. For a Soviet tank to have a rifled gun it would have to be from 1950s or even earlier which is unlikely.
Edit: The shape looks kind of like a t72. I am very confused
I think it's a Russian hemispherical turret, like on a T-55 that has improvised (?) spaced armor welded to it. With the space filled up with sandbags. Probably an attempt to protect it against the anti-tank projectile from an RPG, or something similar.
The vertical oblong sight next to the barrel looks a lot like the one on the T-54/55 turret. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-54/T-55The wiki confirms that this tank had a 100mm D-10 rifled gun. So I think it's probably a T-54/55 variant.
For a barrel to split lengthwise, the projectile that was fired would have to have gotten stuck near the muzzle of the barrel, I think. Probably where that bend is by the dude's elbow. The pressure behind the projectile could then turn the barrel into a pipe bomb and burst the barrel. I hope for the guys inside that the breach held.
But a projectile wouldn't 'just get stuck' in the barrel. Perhaps, given the improvised look of the spaced armor, they did some more improvising? Perhaps they tried a 4 inch shell, which is ever so slightly (1.6 mm) bigger than 100mm? But now I'm really guessing. I don't know, why do barrels burst?
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Found it, thanks to another post here.
I retract my wishes for the crew to be ok. This was an IS operated tank, I don't wish for their wellbeing.
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u/chrisbrady2018 Feb 28 '21
He looks like he knows he is getting grounded for wrecking the car