"Sunny" wrote in message
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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) :-)
|





Sounds like ball to me ;-)






Cheers


Dave Kearton