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Why are the bullets in reds and greens...

posted 8 years ago by user-169-360487
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I feel like I'm watching Star wars half of the time..

[–] jboswel 8 years ago

Those were tracer rounds used for targetting.. A bit of phosphorous or magneusium is added to every 5th round causing an incendiary effect.. I'm no historian but I do highly doubt they used opposing colors that looked like lasers but I could be wrong..

[–] Dave-R011 8 years ago

No, they did use different colours. The West used red (still the NATO standard) and the Germans used other colours. I thought the tracers were a bit bright considering the way the rest of the film is fashionably colour subdued, but tracer can look like that.

[–] Ultrashiver 8 years ago

Every 5th round is a tracer, however the tanks firing in this movie looked as if every round was a tracer.

[–] KSzir 8 years ago

It may look that way but it is realistic based on the rates of fire. The German machine guns had a cyclic rate of 900 to 1200 rounds per minute. That's 15 rounds a second. If every fifth bullet is a tracer, that's 3 tracer rounds per second. That's why it looks like a steady stream of tracers. The American M2's fired at a slower 400-600 rounds per minute but that's still 1 or 2 tracers per second coming out of the machine gun. Your eyes just can't see that speed so it looks like every round is a tracer.

[–] asguy1 8 years ago

They could have upped it for the visual effect.

[–] randyw01 8 years ago

Survivors/witnesses of the Germans firing an 88mm gun ( assumed to be an 88, could have been something else ) would sometimes describe them as blazing green fireballs whizzing past.

Guess what! I've got a fever, and the only prescription is MORE COWBELL! -Bruce Dickinson-

[–] pfarnell 8 years ago

was the same in Vietnam, apparently...the US and communist weapons used different color tracer..