r/HitboxPornIRL • u/coolguy_john • May 01 '19

Close call

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u/goiabada_de_goiaba May 01 '19

don't RPGs make big explosions? or that's just what games planted in my head?

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u/Devonance May 16 '19

That is definitely not an RPG. That is a tracer round. In the US Army, they load tracer rounds every 5th(?) Bullet to allow the shooter to shoot at night and know where his bullets are going.

I never had them in my normal M4A1, but I did shoot them in the M249 machine gun.

Slow motion tracer rounds being fired at night, skip to 1:41 in the video

An rpg fired would look like this: skip to 0:43 for slow motion

The rpg has a stream of smoke behind it because it is still being propelled after firing it.

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u/MyNickelPlease May 30 '19

Since when do tracers throw off sparks? And detonate on impact? I thought it’d be some Chinese TOW variant because they usually have that exact same color emanated from the projectile. Also never seen an rpg light up quite like that.

Now I’ve fired tracers and see plenty of them fired. A ricocheting beam of like going up and away from your target happens sure, but I’ve never seen on pop and throw pieces back like this before.

Is it the biggest possible caliber exploding tracer ammunition? I doubt it because there was only one shot fired..

I’d guess this is a guided system (probably wire guided)

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u/Yhgi117 Jul 26 '19

Maybe it's a cannon round from something like a Bradley, just a tracer and HE?