Subject: Instructors: is no combat better?
From: "Sunny"
Date: 3/10/04 3:01 PM Pacific Standard Time
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"ArtKramr" wrote in message
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Actually there was an error between regular rounds and tracer rounds as
well.
On a strafing mission you could aim the tracers and see the ground kick up
well
behind the tracers. Big difference in ballistic coefficient between the
two Aim
the tracers and you would shoot over the target unil you corrected..

Art, that's because of the make up of the tracer round :
Each "tracer round" has a firefly, with 5 years food, packed into the rear
of the round.
The firefly goes into a deep sleep and slowly absorbs the food.
When the round is fired, the shock wakes the fly and his/her arse lights up.
After 5 years, if the round is not fired, the fly dies and the round is
re-classified as Ball.
(it's all in the latest manuals) :-)




ROFL ! Love it.


Arthur Kramer
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