Are Tracer threads the new ".50-Calibre" thread?What if we get a .50-calibre in CloD?

[winny]

Originally Posted by bongodriver

I have never heard of that, and my understanding of balistics makes it seem improbbable, would love to have a link to some info on that.

Me too, water is really good at stopping bullets quickly. To bounce them off the seabed seems impossible to me (unless we're talking less than 3 feet of water)

Didn't mythbusters fire a .50 cal into a swimming pool to test this sort of thing out?

Answered my own question..

[Chips86]

I hate all of the people that bought this game expecting a flight sim. We all knew it was a ballistics and tracer round sim. You fly boys are just kidding yourselves.

[hiro]

Well I think the new .50 cal threads will pop up once the game has both tigers and .50 cals


no, its not bouncing bullets off the sea floor . . . its misunderstood.

its bouncing them off the water using surface tension, it works like this,

the water surface acts as a catapult, and as the bullet skips across it, the surface tension pulls back from the water layer below, and the water contact with the bullet's skin hangs on to it. But since water likes to stay together, it returns back to its original state, giving a rubber band snap. This adds extra velocity. And since Americans used metal bullets, which has the right amount of stick vs slipperyness to water contact, it worked well. The extremely fast bullets then can saw through ships.

They did it in the pacific, which owns because its the pacific.

It worked against tigers because the mud was best for this. you could skip bullets off mud and the Americans got so good at using ruts, mud, and puddles to really add sling power. Hence the mustang (but more thunderbolt since it had 8 extra machine guns) was such a awesome tiger hunter. The p-38 was more stable gun platform, crucial for ricochet effect but its low .50 cal number and speeds just under mach made it hard for passes without radar guided gunsights (not invented until after ww 2)