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Old March 11th 04, 01:30 AM
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"Howard Berkowitz" wrote in message
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In article , "Sunny"
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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) :-)




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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