
Originally Posted by
Javehn
Nice pictures . Very nice pictures . Too bad i haven't noticed it before .
To Marmot -
Like 2 years ago there was accident in polish army when turreat of t-72 turned around and squeezed a head of driver while he was looking off hatch i wonnder if the head of this guy is also put on risk of squeezeng...
Do you have some more info about that matter ? I just checking different armies safety regulations .
AFAIR there was malfunction of some equipment and this tanker was wit the head off the thank when suddenly turrat turned around and decapitated him and tank was not T-72 as I writed before but PT-91 "Twardy" there was some serious investigation about this accident...
Tank was riding during training and one of the track sliiped from small hill and then turreat which is normally blocked little to the left (In PT-91 driver seat is in the center of the tank not to the side as in T-72 so the driver has better field of view and also it is easier to drive a tank thru narrow pasages (bridges etc.) and turreat is little twisted to the left so driver can stick his head out of hatch ,when in combat driver is hiden and turreat is in center position) twisted and smoke gredade tube hit him in the head (normally there is a bolt that prevent turning of tower when hatch is open but this time it failed to work)