yep: Tracers, WOP and Il-2 COD

winny · #1 01-30-2011, 01:50 PM

All the tracer you could ever need...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyF0G7g4KfY

Completley irrelevant I suppose but worth seeing.

JVM · #2 01-30-2011, 02:42 PM

The funny thing is that quite old video (5 y+) is in fact an advertisement trailer for the Dixon Aero M134D minigun...I saw it first at the AAAA tradeshow in 2006...Still impressive, but I guess in real use they lower the RoF a bit...

JVM

#3 01-30-2011, 03:11 PM

Never in the forums of flight simulators was so much complained, about so little, by so few.

winny · #4 01-30-2011, 03:54 PM

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Originally Posted by speculum jockey

Never in the forums of flight simulators was so much complained, about so little, by so few.

(Apart from yesterday, oh and the day before that, and the day before that an..)

winny · #5 01-30-2011, 06:27 PM

Just being pedantic but the tracers are wrong in one respect, and it's not the way they look.

The RAF didn't mix ammo in 1940. Thay tended to have only one gun of the 8 loaded with tracer. This was because they encountered problems with the firing mechanism if they mixed ammo, (because of the slight difference in recoil characteristics among other things). Many pilots didn't want tracers at all except for the last few rounds in each gun because it alerted the enemy if you managed to sneak up behind them and missed with your first burst.