Now health and safety chiefs say British soldiers can't fire their mortars because they are too LOUD

wyatt1 wrote:British soldiers have been banned from firing mortars at full range in training by health and safety bosses - because they are too loud.
The longer-range 81mm mortar, which was routinely employed by the British Army against the Taliban, is set to see reduced use in training after it was deemed a risk to the hearing of troops.
Health and safety chiefs have ruled that firing the 81mm at a longer range than 5,000 metres exceeds the upper work place sound limit by 137 decibels, despite the use of ear defenders.


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Holy shit, next you must not fire live rounds as they might hurt the enemy (we all know who the enemy are)  Pure bloody madness.

I feel I am living in "BEANO" land. " Dennis the menace" up on far right GBH charges!!!

scrat wrote:
Its the daily fuckwit, I wouldn't read too much into it, they stir up shite aimed at certain minds, if you don't notice the slant you show at best that you don't want to notice it, everything gets tested to its limits,,, even us, as is required but you only ever operate within those limits, nothing can red line for too long.

Deaf or partially Deaf operators in close quarters combat situations could put such action at risk, learning to optimise is a subtlety few know how to grasp.