CF Casualties In Afghanistan By Vehicle Type

[Aaron]

It's long but here's a breakdown of the Canadian Forces casualties in Afghanistan by vehicle they were in.

CASR

I don't know how reliable this is but it's interesting reading. This is from Oct 2005 to 30 Dec 2007.

Here's the first part though:

CF Vehicular Casualties in S. Afghanistan by Vehicle Type – to 30 Dec 2007

Vehicle Date / Year Incident Type CF Casualties Location / Area

Leopard* 02 Nov 2007 roadside IED 0 killed/1 wounded 10km N of Arghandab
[Leopard tank immobilized, driver was wounded and flown to hospital at KAF]

Leopard* 10 July 2007 roadside IED 0 killed/2 wounded 25km E of Kandahar
[ Tank in the rear of convoy, IED followed up by small arms attack on column.]

Leopard – 2 incidents, 0 killed / 3 wounded/injured, 2 IED/ 0 RPG/ 0 Accidents
[ * 02 Nov incident involved a Leopard 2A6M , 10 July involved a Leopard C2.]

[Phantasee]

That's a lot of LAV IIIs. And more Leopards than I expected.

[Aaron]

The LAV III's and to a lesser extent the rest of the AFV's are being specifically targeted because they carry the infantry around. There also the most common AFV in the areas where the Taliban operate.

Your actually pretty safe in them unless your out of the hatch or you hit an anti-tank mine (which they like to double or triple stack so it dissolves the front of the vehicle).

[Sea Skimmer]

Tanks naturally attract attacks; in Iraq the US Army will simply drive M1s down bomb plagued roads in the hopes that insurgents won’t be able to resist hitting a tank. As long as it doesn’t explode under the hull, even a very powerful bomb usually doesn’t do more then break a road wheel.

[Aaron]

Two attacks in the year/year and a half they've been there is pretty good, with only three casualties.

It should be noted that there was another attack on a Leo with a mortar but it's not counted because the driver was dismounted trying to fix a thrown track. He was killed.