Material picture of domestic guided rocket stringer. [사진 육군제공]
– About the reason for the misfire of the anti-tank guided weapon’Hyeon-gung’ in November last year, the Army announced the results of an investigation that the cause was on the 11th that the on-site officials failed to respond properly to the accident.
On that day, an army official said, “As a result of a detailed investigation by a military investigation agency on the incident that occurred during the demonstration shooting in the bowstring on November 19 last year, no defects in launching equipment and ammunition or human error of the shooter were found.”
“At the time of shooting, the normal function of the target was limited due to bad weather such as rainy weather at the time of the shooting.” Explained.
According to the military, the target area was at a distance of 1km during the demonstration shooting training at the Hyungung shooting range in Gyeonggi-do at the time. Hyeon-gung is a weapon that tracks and strikes a target’s thermal image, and fires when a’green light’ comes in to inform the sight that it is possible to aim. However, at the time, the military explained that the control officer instructed the shooter to shoot with the’red light’, which means aiming impossible.
The reason why the heat dissipation system installed on the target did not work properly was concluded by the military due to the low temperature caused by heavy rain.
In November of last year, at the Army’s Yangpyeong General Training Center, one Hyungung fell into a rice field 1.5 km away from the training ground and exploded. At the time of the accident, a foreign guest who visited Korea to participate in the’DX Korea 2020′ event, a defense industry exhibition held in Korea, was on the lookout, and it was evaluated that he lost his face.
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