Source: http://www.112brabant.nl/news/10719-vijf-pantservoertuigen-belgisch-leger-botsen-op-n69-bij-valkenswaard/
Thanks to Chippaa and Cabo for this one!
Hello everyone,
while accidents of armored vehicles are usually not something to be laughing at (when a vehicle of dozens of tons is involved, the damage usually tends to be extensive), sometimes they are just plain silly. For example, take yesterday – Netherlands, near Valkenswaard.
Five Belgian MOWAG Piranha wheeled AFV’s were travelling to Oirschot firing excercises quite fast, when a tractor, belonging to a local farmer, drove on the road without warning from a small side road. The leading Piranha slammed the breaks not to smash it and the entire convoy of Piranhas bumped into each other, causing some minor damage, but damaging the fuel tanks of several vehicles – the fuel started leaking and had to be disposed of by local fire department. The Belgian army had to tow the Piranha’s away on trailers. Luckily, noone was hurt in the accident.
Oh well :) I am sure that being almost crushed by an armored vehicle will teach the farmer to look carefully when driving next time.
Safe distance is exist for some reason. Now i wonder if the convoy are too close each other or braking distance on such vehicle is just that great.
They’re heavy vehicles but they aren’t that horrific at breaking so I believe it was mainly distances between vehicles ^^
pffft lemming trains…
hah, lemming train indeed :D
Camouflage – 100%
Those belgians huh :-P…..
Did I heard someone who needs a kick? :P
haha, wist dat iemand dat ging zeggen :P
Aah, crap, and this is how my country comes on FTR xD
don’t worry, still better then siemka’s ;)
And Belgium did good job in 1914, so it compensate the fact a GrossTraktor has beaten 5 modern AFV ^^’
Not grosstraktor, Agrimotor.
The Belgium invasion just failed. at least we can make more Belgium jokes here about their army for serval years. :D
Should armored vehicles not be a little more robust? if a little bump ruptures the fuel tanks, what does machinegun- and mortar fire do?
I couldn’t help but think of this when I read your comment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9GGDOUDLhc
One tractor can take down 5 tanks?
Nerf the tractor!
Reminds me somewhat of this event from Sweden…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okly05HmKEA
Company of Heroes, Valkenswaard
Anyone?
I think it can also prove to be beneficial because the weakness (fuel tank rupturing on relatively small impact) was revealed not in real combat and therefore improvements can be made with no pressure.
Even APCs bang each other in the ass in Netherlands.
And so, the Belgian invasion was stopped by a tractor.
Fuel tanks fucked by “minor bump”…
Bet the Belgian squaddies feel safe when they go off to war now…
Hey Mustapha… we need a few RPGs for the Belgies..??
No Abdul… just hit the back end with a hammer….
How safe are APC/IFVs? We’ve had two fatal accidents in our country within the past 2 months. One involving a SIBMAS 6×6 http://mytanksrock.blogspot.com/2014/07/2-killed-2-wounded-in-malaysian-ifv.html and the other a FNSS ACV-15 http://mytanksrock.blogspot.com/2014/08/another-malaysian-ifv-accident-2-killed.html.
Unfortunately, there was no attention paid to both accidents, no safety investigations as far as the public was concerned. Are they inherently unstable vehicles due to their high center of gravity? Or was it more likely human error? Both vehicles reportedly lost control at high speeds. How well protected are the crew?
Hope some one with some experience serving with such vehicles can shed some light.