Tracers Rounds (From SimHQ)

[swiss]

Originally Posted by Vasilj_Mitu

wouldn't that defy the better part of tracer's purpose?

Which purpose?

You use tracers for two reasons:

- mark a target (inf.)
- observe where the bullet goes(tanks, airplanes, inf at night)

And yes, you give away your position.
Even if your target does no observe the tracers, anybody with a slightly different angle will - and ricochets offer a nice firework for everybody.
Oh - and there's the muzzle flash too.

I doubt you will find a unit using tracers for covert ops.

[Heliocon]

Well if you are firing tracers they "should" be seen clearly as dots. As you move away from the point of origin (the gun) the more you move to a side x/y view instead of z the more it looks like a "streak". But it seems to me maybe more of a speed problem? They move incredibly fast and realy are not something you clearly "see" at a close distance, or unless you are behind them watching them. Put it this way, they move too fast for your eye to actually follow, translated onto a monitor I am not so sure though.

[xnomad]

I agree with Heliocon. I would imagine that when firing from near your line of sight the tracer would look like a dot, and from a more perpendicular angle it would look like a laser.

So the question to ChrisDNT is; Did you ever observe the 20mm tracer being fired by somebody else from a bit further away, rather than co-axial with the bore?

I've no experience with tracers but I know sparklers make a trail with just the speed of a hand wave so I could imagine the 'laser effect'.