As opposed to earlier designs, the M Mark VI was a true incendiary round rather than a tracer round. One fighter pilot who was shot down by incendiary rounds while flying in the Battle of Britain describes his experience: [7]. It was from the cannon shells and incendiary bullets that had hit my machine Bullets were going between my legs, and I remember seeing a bright flash of an incendiary bullet going past my leg into the gas tank Then a little red tongue licked out inquiringly from under the gas tank in front of my feet and became a hot little bonfire in one corner of the cockpit.
Incendiary projectiles, in particular those intended for armor penetration, are more effective if they explode after penetrating a surface layer, such that they explode inside the target.
Additionally, targets with onboard electronics or computers can be damaged by metal fragments when they explode on the surface. Ignition is often delayed by varying means until after impact.
Some explosive projectiles, such as high-explosive incendiary rounds, contain an incendiary charge intended to ignite explosives within the shell. Military Wiki Explore. Popular pages. Project maintenance. Register Don't have an account? The Japanese planes go up faster because they were made of a lot more "cloth" than other planes. This is what helped make them such great turn fighters in the war. Of course, this also made them much weaker.
A quick burst from the American. Hmmm, thats good to know. I've been using HEI since it seemed to me that an HE round might have more of a tendency to ignite the fuel in the wing. Maybe I should stick with API. So anybody can make a list of which ammo types are good vs fighters and bombers? Nice list, however a few more indepth ingame stats would be greatly appreciated. Awesome job. But its pathetic this has to be done by someone else then the damned developer that is making the damned game.
Q and Tutorials All explanation of ammo types All explanation of ammo types ammo types rack. Share More sharing options Followers 0. Knugen Report post. Posted March 20, New Gun Ammo Types Open the spoilers to see more detailed historical information about it. One fighter pilot who was shot down by incendiary rounds while flying in the Battle of Britain describes his experience: "I could smell powder smoke, hot and strong, but it didn't make me feel tough this time.
Tracer rounds may also ignite flammable substances on contact from a nominal distance. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options RemoSupremo Cool, thanks, added it :. Jakawitz 1, All I know is that the more letters the more damage I go for the bombers first though since I'm already up there escorting.
This should be pinned. Pucckk InspGadgt So on how effective Incendiary is, it does make a noticeable difference. Tracer ammunition tracers are bullets or cannon caliber projectiles that are built with a small pyrotechnic charge in their base. Ignited by the burning powder, the pyrotechnic composition burns very brightly, making the projectile visible to the naked eye. This enables the shooter to follow the projectile trajectory to make aiming corrections. When used, tracers are usually loaded as every fifth round in machine gun belts, referred to as four-to-one tracer.
Platoon and squad leaders will sometimes load their magazines entirely with tracers to mark targets for their soldiers to fire on. Tracers are also sometimes placed two or three rounds from the bottom of magazines to alert the shooter that their weapon is almost empty.
Tracerfire on Finnish-Soviet border during the Winter War. Before the development of tracers, gunners relied on seeing their bullet impacts to adjust their aim.
However, these were not always visible. In the early 20th century, ammunition designers developed "spotlight" bullets, which would create a flash or smoke puff on impact to increase their visibility.
However, these projectiles were deemed in violation of the Hague Conventions ' prohibition of "exploding bullets. Designers also developed bullets that would trail white smoke. However, these designs required an excessive amount of mass loss to generate a satisfactory trail. The loss of mass en route to the target severely affected the bullet's ballistics.
The United Kingdom was the first to develop and introduce a tracer round, a version of the. The airships were used for surveillance and bombing operations.
Normal bullets merely had the effect of causing a slow leak, but tracers could ignite the hydrogen gasbags, and bring down the airship quickly. A tracer projectile is constructed with a hollow base filled with a pyrotechnic flare material, often made of phosphorus or magnesium or other bright burning chemicals. This yields a bright red light. Russian and Chinese tracer ammunition generates green light using barium salts.
Some modern designs use compositions that produce little to no visible light and radiate mainly in infrared, being visible only on night vision equipment. Tracers can never be a totally reliable indicator of a gunner's aim, since all tracer rounds have different aerodynamics and weight from ordinary rounds.
Over long ranges, the stream of tracer rounds and the stream of ordinary rounds will diverge significantly. This is caused by a tracer bullet's mass decreasing during flight, because the tracer material in its base burns and vaporizes. Although advances in tracer design have diminished this problem, it cannot be completely eliminated. There are three types of tracers: bright tracer, subdued tracer and dim tracer.
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