The fatal Challenger 2 accident at Castlemartin on 14 June 2017 occurred when the tank’s 120 mm L30A1 gun was fired without a critical safety component known as the Bolt Vent Axial (BVA) assembly fitted to the breech. The absence of the BVA allowed high-pressure, superheated propellant gases to escape backwards into the turret when the gun fired. These gases ignited combustible material and exposed propellant charges that were not secured inside their armoured storage bins, resulting in a catastrophic fire and explosion within the fighting compartment. The subsequent Service Inquiry and coroner’s inquest found that the gun’s ability to be fired without the BVA installed was the primary cause of the incident
So think we can lap load the sabot but nothing else.
Wasn’t it something as simple as bit of cotton/fabric that mucked up the obturation (basically - sealing) of the breech? The BVA would’ve prevented it somehow.
Actually - scratch the above. I was misremembering something else. It was literally the BVA not being there.
Oh lordy, don’t show that video will be positive proof you can’t load the main gun while firing the coax because the loader is feeding the MG belt - nerf incoming
Oh I know haha, my dad was on Chieftain/Challenger 1 (Gunner and Commander on CR1) in the HCR (they went to Scimitar after CR1), he’s often watched me play War Thunder and wondered what the hell I was doing fighting street to street in a Challenger… or the occasional “stop sky lining yourself”
They really should of given the CR3 abomination we have in game blow out panels, I hate playing the thing as it currently is in game
This reads as that the original report was only accepted on technical terms but never looked in as a serious suggestion. Accepted reports are figuratively and physically throw into the trash.