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:FI:WillieOFS wrote:

20MM beats a puny lil .30 cal ANY day for making stuff break..

so does this

Howcome tracer rounds always seem to bounce off things?

I've seen WWII gun camera footage of ground attacks and it's as if the whole place erupts in red sparks that seem to hang in the air.

One wartime documentary showed straffing runs in the Pacific and described this as 'triple A' but this can't be true - I'd imagine that the combined speed of an incoming plane and an outgoing round would make it practically invisible on film.

So, yeah, why do tracer rounds seem to float? Is it so that the gunner/pilot can get range information? And for every tracer round that floats, is it (un)safe to assume that there are three or four rounds of party mix going right through the target??

That footage is awesome, thanks for posting (even though it'll give me nightmares! )

it does not take mutch for tracers to bouce off stuff.


Last fall I was at a miletary shooing range, I saw 7.62 x 51 tracers fired from a G3 on full automatic bounce of hard snow.

G3:

I was supriced, to say it mildly.

Volkspanzer?

maby gen would want one for his wagon aswell.

Thanks for the info willie! Nice one falcon