Mad_Shell Posted August 1, 2022 Share Posted August 1, 2022 - NATO planes fire red tracers IRL, but most of the time they have no tracer ammunition. Loadouts with yellow tracers are in no way realistic. Default should be no tracer at all. (https://www.reddit.com/r/hoggit/comments/v4szxn/reminder_that_western_fighters_use_red_tracers/). It can be hard to find documents on that stuff, but please ED, ask your SMEs. - All the rounds used by ground units and infantry are tracers. Every. Single. Round. Any fire exchange looks like Star Wars. In real life, no one do that, except for some specific units (anti-air artillery generally use all tracers belts). Usually something like 1/5 rounds are tracers (that ratio can change, but that's NATO standard), and sometimes the grunts put a few tracer rounds at the end of the cartridge clip so they know they have to reload. Note that in DCS the coaxial machine gun on the Abrams, correctly uses a 1 tracer / 5 rounds belt. The new door gun on the Hind also uses a 1/4 or 1/5 tracer ratio. - CIWS on ships use no tracer ammunitions in real life. Only the ground version does use red tracers. Once again in DCS, ships fire a nice stream of yellow tracers. In one of the recent cinematics, ships use red tracers. Still wrong. This page contains nice infos on the CIWS system and ammo: http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WNUS_Phalanx.php#ammonote3 . Also, haven't found a single video showing tracer rounds on naval CIWS. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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