TY  - JOUR
A1  - Jellinghaus, Katharina
A1  - Scherer, Charlotte
A1  - Stauffer, Edouard
A1  - Urban, Petra
A1  - Bohnert, Michael
A1  - Kneubuehl, Beat P.
T1  - Deadly injuries through recoilless anti-tank weapons while military shooting practice — two case studies from Germany and Switzerland
JF  - International Journal of Legal Medicine
N2  - 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.
KW  - Anti-tank weapon
KW  - Military shooting
KW  - Davis gun
KW  - Anti-tank rocket
KW  - Ballistics
Y1  - 2020
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-232727
SN  - 0937-9827
VL  - 134
ER  -