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Old 04-17-2011, 10:06 AM
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Originally Posted by Plt Off JRB Meaker View Post
Study any WW2 aircraft gun footage and you'll see the tracers SMOKE to their target.

RAF wise this is incorrect, they had smoke tracers. They smoked to the target but didn't produce a visible light streak. They also had smokless 'fire' tracer.

2 seperate rounds.

Look at this video, RAF procedure during BoB was not to mix ammo types in the same gun, so you see the smoke tracer (at least 3 guns) and the light tracer (1 Gun). Notice that the 'fire' tracer doesn't produce any smoke.

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