Shot from a mortar on yourself: the incident in the German army

In the internet appeared the video training and combat exercises of the german army. We are talking about firing from a mortar, to which were attracted members of one of the divisions of the bundeswehr. Of the frames of the video on youtube, you can see that shooting probably ended in tragedy. The soldier, sending in mortar ammunition, two shots fired normally. On the third shot, something went wrong and the mine is not taking off and on the meter above the outlet of the barrel of the mortar began to fall on the loader.

At this point, the operator who carried out the shooting in a panic ran away from the epicenter of the incident along with a video camera. After a few seconds he heard an explosion. Official messages from the command of the bundeswehr of the death or wounding of german soldiers during the exercise will not be published. About that. What happened with the operator and other participants of the firing practice there are no data. This situation with non-standard shot from a mortar is not one of a kind.

Bad shots happen in other armies of the world: from Ukraine to the USA and China. Often its role is played here by the notorious human factor (including improper storage of ammunition), although, according to statistics, the most frequent are technical failures in the operation of mortars.