On the subject of gunnery, I was wondering if different ammunition types of the same calibre will have different terminal performance, ie tracer rounds loosing weight as they burn, and taking a different path to ball ammunition.
I had read somewhere that using tracers to aim is not a perfect tactic for due to different trajectories, but two things make me wonder about this:
1. whatever the weight of a projectile, the acceleration due to gravity will remain the same (in a vacuum that is - so the effect might need to be different in game).
2. when synchronising guns im sure the one(s) carrying tracer could be raised to intersect with the ball at the chosen distance.
In any case im sure there should be differences of some sort in the trajectory of these rounds, the starting weight would also be a factor (this would change acceleration achieved by the powder).
It's not of massive importance though.
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02-20-2011, 11:40 PM
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