EthanM Posted April 26, 2020 Share Posted April 26, 2020 why are the shots fired from ground units green,and so on? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
razo+r Posted April 26, 2020 Share Posted April 26, 2020 Tracer rounds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick50 Posted April 26, 2020 Share Posted April 26, 2020 For a very long time I thought that tracers were only red. Was wrong, turns out tracer bullets often feature green: "In NATO standard ammunition (including US), the oxidizer salt is usually a mixture of strontium compounds (nitrate, peroxide, etc.) and the metallic fuel is magnesium. Burning strontium yields a bright red light. Russian and Chinese tracer ammunition generates green light using barium salts." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracer_ammunition There are also dim tracers and invisible to the eye tracers that emit an IR light, so that only troops using night vision goggles/sights can see the trace. Not in WW2 mind you, but anyway. There may be other colors, but I only know of red green and IR for certain. I think there may be a yellow. Many pilot's histories describe being shot at by big bright green golfballs, over Vietnam, among others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JG13Wulf Posted April 26, 2020 Share Posted April 26, 2020 For german, you could find red, yellow, blue and white tracers if I remember correctly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EthanM Posted April 27, 2020 Author Share Posted April 27, 2020 why why did they use them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
razo+r Posted April 28, 2020 Share Posted April 28, 2020 To see where you are shooting at Tracers also have some psychological sideeffect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philstyle Posted April 28, 2020 Share Posted April 28, 2020 (edited) why are the shots fired from ground units green,and so on? Here are some red and yellow tracers - you can see that in real life they look like lasers too. 4:42 is a good place to watch a nice line of tracers. This video is of some single-round green tracers: Edited April 28, 2020 by philstyle On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/philstylenz Storm of War WW2 server website: https://stormofwar.net/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QuiGon Posted April 29, 2020 Share Posted April 29, 2020 why did they use them They are still in use by pretty much all militaries around the world. They're mostly used for machine guns and help the gunner to adjust his him as he can see where his shots are flying to. Intel i7-12700K @ 8x5GHz+4x3.8GHz + 32 GB DDR5 RAM + Nvidia Geforce RTX 2080 (8 GB VRAM) + M.2 SSD + Windows 10 64Bit DCS Panavia Tornado (IDS) really needs to be a thing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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