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Stray tank-destroyer shell strikes henhouse

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  • Oct 5, 2017
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    Chicken massacre: Stray tank-destroyer shell strikes henhouse during botched training exercise in Italy​


    An Italian public prosecutor has impounded four B1 Centauro tank destroyers, one of which is suspected of firing its gun in the direction of a farm and killing multiple hens with a direct hit.
    The incident happened during a night training exercise in the northern Italian province of Pordenone, local media reported. The stray shell landed directly on a henhouse at a farm in the Vivaro municipality, killing some animals and partially collapsing the shed.
    The unlucky shot apparently came from one of the wheeled military vehicles belonging to the ‘Pozzuolo del Friuli’ Cavalry Brigade, which took part in a night exercise at the nearby Cellina-Meduna shooting range. The crew of the B1 Centauro for some reason turned its high-caliber gun – which is designed to pierce the armor of tanks and similar targets – away from the intended target area and towards the farm located on the outskirts of the town of Vivaro. According to an army statement, the location in question was evacuated before the maneuvers began.
    Owners of the farm discovered the damage in the morning after the exercise. After a police report about the incident, the provincial public prosecutor ordered four tank destroyers impounded pending an investigation.
    The Italian military confirmed that something at the training exercise went wrong and said they were conducting an internal probe of their own, pledging to cooperate with the civilian authorities.
    Needless to say, the “Massacre of chicken in Pordenone”, as some outlets called it, made the Italian army target of some mockery on social media.


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    Awesome to know they are training with live rounds right next to a farm!
     
    Here they use or at least used to use an old howitzer for avalanche control.

    A few years back this happened.

     
    We need something like this to hit DC.
     
    "An Italian public prosecutor has impounded four B1 Centauro tank destroyers." 🤣

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    "An Italian public prosecutor has impounded four B1 Centauro tank destroyers." 🤣
    ''The carabinieri have since ordered the impounding of four B1 Centauro tank destroyers used in the exercise. It is suspected that the units on exercise did not notice the mistake due to the 105mm inert training ammunition used. However, it remains to be seen as to how exactly the crews wound up firing in the direction of an inhabited area instead of downrange, the opposite direction from their presumably intended targets.''


    'CSI Pordenone' rolling to a local swimming pool to fire a shot or two ,for ballistics testing to determine the guilty party :devilish: At least they now have a bunch of feathers for their uniforms i am sure they can dye them black.

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