@article{JellinghausSchererStaufferetal.2020,
  author    = {Jellinghaus, Katharina and Scherer, Charlotte and Stauffer, Edouard and Urban, Petra and Bohnert, Michael and Kneubuehl, Beat P.},
  title     = {Deadly injuries through recoilless anti-tank weapons while military shooting practice — two case studies from Germany and Switzerland},
  series = {International Journal of Legal Medicine},
  volume    = {134},
  journal   = {International Journal of Legal Medicine},
  issn      = {0937-9827},
  doi       = {10.1007/s00414-020-02301-4},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-232727},
  pages     = {2199-2204},
  year      = {2020},
  abstract  = {In this casuistry, two accidents from Germany and Switzerland are presented that happened during the shot of recoilless anti-tankweapons. In both cases, the injuries led to the death of two soldiers: A 22-year-old soldier in Germany was struck by the countermass of a so-called Davis gun which had been fired by a comrade during a firing exercise; he died from his severe injuries,especially in the abdominal part of the body. As a peculiarity of the wound morphology, it was found to be a thick-layered,metallic, gray material in the wound cavity, which corresponded to the material of the counter mass that was ejected opposite tothe shooting direction. The other case took place in Switzerland, where a 24-year-old soldier was seriously injured during anexercise with portable anti-tank rockets. At the time the shot was fired, he stood behind the launcher and was hit by the propulsionjet of the rocket motor. He died as well from his severe injuries, which were located at the chest done by the gas jet and by the veryhigh pressure. In both cases, two different causes of death were present: massive blunt violence in the first case versus a jet of hotgases of very high speed and temperature in the second case.},
  language  = {en}
}