Change MEC tracers to yellow
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ma21212
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Change MEC tracers to yellow
Scince MEC uses all German weapons wont it make sense to make the tracers yellow instead of green? (ps: im not sure that the Germans weapons still use yellow but i know they used it in WWII)
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Anhkhoa
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Re: Change MEC tracers to yellow
Germany under Hitler fought differently than Germany now.ma21212 wrote:Scince MEC uses all German weapons wont it make sense to make the tracers yellow instead of green? (ps: im not sure that the Germans weapons still use yellow but i know they used it in WWII)
Germany now uses the same color tracers as the rest of NATO..
Yellow is left for tank rounds and APC autocannons...
Though, I think the MEC would eventually run out of 7.62x51mm NATO ammunition because they are fighting NATO...which means they would have to produce indigenous ammunition and its possible those could be green

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Alex6714
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Re: Change MEC tracers to yellow
I think Nato ones are actually red, just it is very hard to tell in videos. Someone can confirm what colour they are I am sure.Anhkhoa wrote: Yellow is left for tank rounds and APC autocannons...
Edit, you can see here it starts of bright yellow, but turns to red in the end. Look closely.
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Fluffywuffy
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Re: Change MEC tracers to yellow
It turns in to red because the phosphorus ignites in halfway down range.
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StuTika
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Re: Change MEC tracers to yellow
Yeah, I would say that they're red, but they're so hot just after leaving the barrel that they appear to glow yellow/white.
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Fluffywuffy
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Re: Change MEC tracers to yellow
I think they should stay the same. Since you can use green/red or anything in a g3 that fits the 7.62X51mm. NATO rounds use phosphorus or magnesium. Russian or Chinese tracers use barium salts. Sometimes tracers don't emit light rays at all they have infrared rays that can be detected using night vision equipment.
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Ragni<RangersPL>
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Re: Change MEC tracers to yellow
I'm sorry but where's the connection? German weapons doesn't mean german ammunitionma21212 wrote:Scince MEC uses all German weapons wont it make sense to make the tracers yellow instead of green?
Any country with mid advanced industry can manufacture small arms ammunition, it's not some kind of rare technology
BTW.
Those red tracers can glow with yellow light but we can see it as red because of the Doppler effect
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Farks
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Re: Change MEC tracers to yellow
The origin of the weapons have nothing to do with tracer colors. It's decided by the ammunition you use.
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llPANCHOll
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Re: Change MEC tracers to yellow
Possibly he was suggesting this so you could tell freindly fire from that of your enemies??

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Fluffywuffy
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Re: Change MEC tracers to yellow
They already have green tracers.....
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ma21212
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Re: Change MEC tracers to yellow
wow... you guys missunderstood me. Im not sayin modern Germany is like Nazi Germany.... lol wat I meant (or thought) is that the ppl who made the guns during WWII (mauser, Walther etc.) they still make weapons and they were the ones who chose tracer colors (Im sure Hitler didnt chose the color yellow) so the same color might still be used. but yeah I didnt think about the fact that MEC in PR is "rich" so they can make thier own ammo.
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Solid Knight
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Re: Change MEC tracers to yellow
Ficitional force so they should use blue tracers.
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Cpl.Small
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Re: Change MEC tracers to yellow
but yer that's what we're saying in the end it just depends on the ammo not the riflema21212 wrote:wow... you guys missunderstood me. Im not sayin modern Germany is like Nazi Germany.... lol wat I meant (or thought) is that the ppl who made the guns during WWII (mauser, Walther etc.) they still make weapons and they were the ones who chose tracer colors (Im sure Hitler didnt chose the color yellow) so the same color might still be used. but yeah I didnt think about the fact that MEC in PR is "rich" so they can make thier own ammo.
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StuTika
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Re: Change MEC tracers to yellow
[R-CON]Ragni< wrote:BTW.
Those red tracers can glow with yellow light but we can see it as red because of the Doppler effect![]()
Ooh, didn't think of that. Very true.
Like the 'red shift' I learnt about in physics used to work out how fast planets are accelerating away.
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RHYS4190
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Re: Change MEC tracers to yellow
Yellows boring, why don't we have a purple tracer instead.
or better yet all different coloured tracers all packed into the same magazine. then we could shot rain bows out of are guns.
or better yet all different coloured tracers all packed into the same magazine. then we could shot rain bows out of are guns.
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WilsonPL
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Re: Change MEC tracers to yellow
eotA tracer projectile is constructed with a hollow base filled with a pyrotechnic flare material, often made of phosphorus or magnesium or other bright burning chemicals. In US and NATO standard ammunition, this is usually a mixture of strontium compounds (nitrate, peroxide,...) and a metal fuel such as magnesium. This yields a bright red light. Russian and Chinese tracer ammunition generates green light using barium salts.

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00SoldierofFortune00
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Re: Change MEC tracers to yellow
NATO tracers are Red or Orange.Razick wrote:Red.....
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R.J.Travis
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Re: Change MEC tracers to yellow
there red (:
having yellow tracers would be nice on some maps that they blinded into better like desert maps .
having yellow tracers would be nice on some maps that they blinded into better like desert maps .
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