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The tracer / incendiary round...
Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2023 9:29 pm
by Nik_SpeakerToCats
I happened across a movie snippet on You-tube, need a reality-check.
I do not know the movie, but bear with me...
Three US SpecFor high on dry hillside overlooking deserted road in generic Stan-ish valley.
There are a number of dark marks / puddles on road.
Suspecting IED, team sniper is bid put a .50 into first mark. Nothing.
Likewise, the others: Nothing...
Then sniper is bid target a patch with an incendiary round-- BOOOM !!!
Debris flies everywhere...
Okay, spectacular theatre/FX, but is there a basis in fact ??
Re: The tracer / incendiary round...
Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2023 12:01 am
by MikeKozlowski
Nik_SpeakerToCats wrote: ↑Sat Sep 23, 2023 9:29 pm
I happened across a movie snippet on You-tube, need a reality-check.
I do not know the movie, but bear with me...
Three US SpecFor high on dry hillside overlooking deserted road in generic Stan-ish valley.
There are a number of dark marks / puddles on road.
Suspecting IED, team sniper is bid put a .50 into first mark. Nothing.
Likewise, the others: Nothing...
Then sniper is bid target a patch with an incendiary round--
BOOOM !!!
Debris flies everywhere...
Okay, spectacular theatre/FX, but is there a basis in fact ??
Absolutely believe it as far as I'm concerned. We flew .50 API on the Buff G, and I saw what it could do to fairly heavy steel plate; it would have shredded anything it could reasonably expect to encounter.
Mike
Re: The tracer / incendiary round...
Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2023 12:43 am
by Kunkmiester
Incendiary won't necessarily set off explosives. The shock from getting hit by a supersonic bullet will.
So mostly BS for drama's sake. If incendiary was needed to set off IEDs a lot, they wouldn't use anything else.
Re: The tracer / incendiary round...
Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2023 1:24 am
by Nik_SpeakerToCats
"So mostly BS for drama's sake."
That's a relief: Always scary when 'suspension of disbelief' glitches and I go, 'Huh ??'
Re: The tracer / incendiary round...
Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2023 2:20 am
by jemhouston
Nik_SpeakerToCats wrote: ↑Sun Sep 24, 2023 1:24 am
"So mostly BS for drama's sake."
That's a relief: Always scary when '
suspension of disbelief' glitches and I go, 'Huh ??'
Stop taking the red pill.