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![]() "Howard Berkowitz" wrote in message ... In article , "Sunny" wrote: "ArtKramr" wrote in message ... snip 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) :-) Recently declassified is the equivalent for artillery, which was a spinoff of Santa's technology. We've long prepared for attacks from the North Pole, but we never suspected the technology testbed. Oh, everyone talks about Rudolph, and how his bright nose serves as Santa's active navigational imaging system illuminator. Rudolph had it rough...guzzle away at reindeer-sized beer kegs every night, and your nose might be red too. But what recently came out is the preparation that the yet-unidentified Tracking and IFF Tail Reindeer had to do. Gentle readers, I draw a merciful curtain of security of what he had to do to have his posterior glow, much as the tracking flare on a wire-guided antitank missile. *wince* Let us merely say that available soft toilet tissue technology doesn't begin to meet operational requirements. Santa needs a girl like Monica. |
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