I was watching the following video and I started wondering why the rounds seem to explode after a certain distance. I'm assuming it's slower-moving tracer rounds being hit by faster, follow-on non-tracer rounds. But if that were the case, why wouldn't we see it all along the stream of fire?
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March 07, 2026, 06:29 PM
RogueJSK
It doesn't fire bullets. It fires 20mm high explosive incendiary tracer shells. And these are equipped with a self destruct feature that causes them to blow up after traveling about 7500 feet, to prevent all the shells that miss the incoming target from falling to the earth further away and inflicting unintended damage or casualties.
March 08, 2026, 08:25 AM
Orguss
Thank you, sir!
"I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet raised to an alarming extent by Hollywood and Madison Avenue, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you're old and weak!" - Calvin, "Calvin & Hobbes"