There is a new video mistaken helicopter strike on doctrines “the West-2017”
The incident with unintentional descent of the missile in military exercise “Zapad-2017” took place on 16 September, says the source of RBC, close to the defense Ministry.
Available RBC was a new video of the incident with the gathering of rockets from the helicopter Ka-52 on maneuvers “West-2017”. The incident, according to the source RBC, close to the defense Ministry, occurred on September 16.
According to the interlocutor of RBC, three persons suffered.
“They’re not civilians,” — said the source.
16 September as a result of the helicopter accident injured three people, among them civil — RBC source:https://t.co/DYbOF44KbZ pic.twitter.com/9geUz9BkxW
— RBC (@ru_rbc) September 19, 2017
Earlier, the defense Ministry said that in the video, released before this, “recorded case that occurred in another period of time when the crews of helicopters of army aviation within the flight and tactical exercises did this exercise for the defeat of ground targets”.
The defense Ministry confirmed that the helicopter accidentally fired a missile at the car. “The guidance system of one of the helicopters was made incorrect target. As a result of falling rockets damaged one of the trucks without the people”, — said the press service of the Western military district, arrived in RBC.
About the fact that the incident occurred on September 16, wrote an independent group of investigative Conflict Intelligence Team (CIT).
Video effects on earth from a random volley of missiles the helicopter during the exercise “West 2017” pic.twitter.com/Fkj499FdGK
— CIT (@CITeam_ru) September 19, 2017
First that during the exercises “West-2017” on the ground “Luzhskaya” in the Leningrad region the Ka-52 is due to a failure was hit by a missile at the audience, the publication reported 66.ru. The publication does not have accurate information about when the incident occurred. Source 66.ru said that due to the large separation of fragments “two people were seriously injured”, which is “likely to journalists”.
The defense Ministry reports that the incident was “a large number of seriously wounded” called “deliberate provocation or somebody’s personal stupidity”.