Tracers

Capt. Rum · Post by **Capt. Rum** » 2005-10-10 00:25

Dunno if it's possible or wether it's been discussed before but how about tracer rounds as you near the end of the mag. in you rifle That'd be cool.

HogansHeros · Post by **HogansHeros** » 2005-10-10 01:05

What color tracers does china use? I know most armys use red/orange, but i heard some where (history channel i think) that the north Vietnamese used green.

Mad Max · Post by **Mad Max** » 2005-10-10 01:06

Tracers aren't commonly used by riflemen... but some guys do stick one 2nd to last so they know they have one left. I suppose if it was included it'd only really be useful if they got rid of the ammo count meter, but it could be a nice bit of realistic eye candy.

Oh and the Chinese tracer colour... I'd assume Red/Orange like the Russians. Actually I think most use red because red phospherous is the most stable apparently... so it's less likely to cause problems if u scratch it or something unlike the white stuff... nasty!

Enforcer1975 · Post by **Enforcer1975** » 2005-10-10 17:27

Found something about tracers. I knew the Russian ( Warshau Pact ) was using green tracers.

The US and i suspect all western armies use red tracers as written down in the text.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracer_ammunition

The text even says something about...

Besides guiding the shooter's direction of fire, tracer rounds can also be loaded at the end of a magazine to remind the shooter that the magazine needs changing, particularly when using a weapon (such as an AK-47) that does not lock the bolt back when empty.

Raaschou · Post by **Raaschou** » 2005-10-10 20:17

Mad Max wrote:Tracers aren't commonly used by riflemen...

Depends... It is common usage in the Danish army (for all riflemen), to put tracers as 2nd and 3rd in the mag.

And Sgt's often have 1 or 2 mags only with tracers, to point out targets etc...

YoJimbO · Post by **YoJimbO** » 2005-10-10 23:48

The problem with using tracers is that it'd obviously give your enemy a hint as when to jump out & shoot back

No idea if it's still the case, I was told by a Para last weekend that they don't, but apparently during WW2 aircraft using tracers were having problems cause the tracer rounds were dropping more than normal rounds, meaning that only 1 in 5 was actually going where they thought...

Beckwith · Post by **Beckwith** » 2005-10-11 01:42

well there needs to be something that gives away your position, not all weapons have flash supressors so to have no muzzel flash and no tracers would be total unrealistic

Schlumpfy · Post by **Schlumpfy** » 2005-10-11 11:31

I'd really like to see what a tracer is like in action. I've never really come across these things before.

Schlumpfy · Post by **Schlumpfy** » 2005-10-11 11:31

I'd really like to see what a tracer is like in action. I've never really come across these things before.

EDIT: ROFL!!! MEGA POST! Ehm...Can an admin delete them all please?

GABBA · Post by **GABBA** » 2005-10-11 14:07

Do they come in blue...

Would be pretty cool to have this in BF2 SF , on all of those night maps

Enforcer1975 · Post by **Enforcer1975** » 2005-10-11 14:52

GABBA wrote:Do they come in blue...

Would be pretty cool to have this in BF2 SF , on all of those night maps

ROFL, at least in the IL-2 Series the german shoot blue tracers, don't know if they really did. But the game is supposed to be ultra realistic...

Originally posted by Schlumpfy
I'd really like to see what a tracer is like in action. I've never really come across these things before.

EDIT: ROFL!!! MEGA POST! Ehm...Can an admin delete them all please?

You can get a quicktime movie on this site.
http://www.rassokhin.com/personal/Firearms/Tracer.html
The video works with Divx or WMPlayer, bt without sound. QTime does sound but no pic

??: LoL

At least it shows a tracer bullet fly.

Raaschou · Post by **Raaschou** » 2005-10-11 20:47

I've only come across tracers in red, yellow and green in real life...

And yes, it gives away your position, but IRL the benefits are bigger than the cons.
And in urban combat, when you're ***** in the middel of the street (with the insurgents on the roofs), with the dust, noise, confusion etc, it's nice to see, where to shoot (following your buddies tracers)!

Unless a pinky just "go postal"!

Enforcer1975 · Post by **Enforcer1975** » 2005-10-13 17:23

Hahaaa!!

Finally found the gatling tracer video i was looking for!!! More to come if you want

http://fromtheinside.us/multi-media/vid ... ng-vid.wmv