tracer ammunition

Tracer ammunition, or tracers, are bullets or cannon-caliber projectiles that are built with a small pyrotechnic charge in their base. When fired, the pyrotechnic composition is ignited by the burning powder and burns very brightly, making the projectile trajectory visible to the naked eye during daylight, and very bright during nighttime firing. This allows the shooter to visually trace the trajectory of the projectile and thus make necessary ballistic corrections, without having to confirm projectile impacts and without even using the sights of the weapon. Tracer fire can also be used as a marking tool to signal other shooters to concentrate their fire on a particular target during battle.

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Japanese night raiders are greeted with a lacework of anti-aircraft fire by the Marine defenders of Yontan airfield, on Okinawa HD-SN-99-02894

Tracers over Okinawa after first Japanese peace offer 1945

A Counter Rocket, Artillery, Mortar weapon system is test fired on Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, Jan. 13, 2018.

Tracers

USS George Washington DVIDS294631

Anti-aircraft tracer shells (KEAGLE 0059)

12pdrCommonLydditeMkIVShellDiagram

Peleliu's Great White Way

Projectile differences among 5.56-mm cartridges

A Counter Rocket, Artillery, Mortar weapon system is test fired on Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, Jan. 13, 2018.

Type	Subtype	Date	Description	Notes	Source
commons	image		Japanese night raiders are greeted with a lacework of anti-aircraft fire by the Marine defenders of Yontan airfield, on Okinawa HD-SN-99-02894		Commons
commons	image		Tracers over Okinawa after first Japanese peace offer 1945		Commons
commons	image		A Counter Rocket, Artillery, Mortar weapon system is test fired on Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, Jan. 13, 2018.		Commons
commons	image		Tracers		Commons
commons	image		USS George Washington DVIDS294631		Commons
commons	image		Anti-aircraft tracer shells (KEAGLE 0059)		Commons
commons	image		12pdrCommonLydditeMkIVShellDiagram		Commons
commons	image		Peleliu's Great White Way		Commons
commons	image		Projectile differences among 5.56-mm cartridges		Commons
commons	image		A Counter Rocket, Artillery, Mortar weapon system is test fired on Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, Jan. 13, 2018.		Commons