Gepard A2 popping smoke on respawn

I have experienced this on the Japan (2x), Maginot (1x), and Fulda (1x) maps during Ground Assault matches (not on others because I managed to avoid getting blown up): my Gepard A2 is destroyed, I respawn and immediately one of my smoke pods goes off while I don’t even have the hands on keyboard and mouse. First time I thought that I might have respawned in the path of a shell, but that’s already unlikely to happen once, let alone four times in two days.

Has anybody else noticed that, perhaps with other tanks as well?

It was scared. I donno. Maybe some bug in the respawn code that doesn’t set all the variables to the right values.