Tracers Baby!!!!

[Jeff L]

110719-N-PW494-168 ARABIAN SEA (July 19, 2011) A Sailor fires a .50-caliber machine gun during a live-fire exercise on the fantail aboard the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77). George H.W. Bush is deployed supporting maritime security operations and theater security cooperation efforts in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility on its first operational deployment. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Joshua D. Sheppard/Released)

[nine mil thrill]

man.....i just love "NIGHTIME FISHING"......

[Hilldweller]

Man, I though that was the Navy's new flux-laser weapon.....

Why don't they come up with other tracer colors for the US? Why, always red.
There's green used by other countries; but why not blue, yellow, purple....
Load the belts right and you could have a rainbow effect....ah....well maybe not....that might break the "don't ask, don't tell" rule.....

[ankyle62]

Man, I though that was the Navy's new flux-laser weapon.....

Why don't they come up with other tracer colors for the US? Why, always red.
There's green used by other countries; but why not blue, yellow, purple....

probably answered your own question, other countries use them. No need to confuse people and cause friendly fire incidents.

[r3dn3ck]

blue is incredibly hard to make vivid enough. yellow is too easy to wash out. Orange and red are easy as hell to see which is weird since they sit on the lower power end of the visible spectrum.

[MrOrange]

Heck yeah, big honkin' fat ones!

My fav is still the Dillon Aero highlight reel.

Man, I though that was the Navy's new flux-laser weapon.....

Why don't they come up with other tracer colors for the US? Why, always red.
There's green used by other countries; but why not blue, yellow, purple....
Load the belts right and you could have a rainbow effect....ah....well maybe not....that might break the "don't ask, don't tell" rule.....

I had some cognitive dissonance in my first shoot-out: First I was pissed that the Army didn't tell me the soviets used green tracers, my next thought was:

"Looks like Christmas!"

[rareair]

Why don't they come up with other tracer colors for the US? Why, always red.
There's green used by other countries; but why not blue, yellow, purple....
.....

Red & Green is most visible in the color spectrum, even to the color blind That's why laser systems use Red & Green