Tracer ammunition
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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
Tracer ammunition fired by United States military captured in a long-exposure photograph of a Japanese attack on Peleliu, 1944
Tracer fire on Finnish-Soviet border during the Winter War (1939–1940)
Canadian tank in England shooting tracer rounds from its machine gun
M2HB Browning machine gun and armor-piercing incendiary (M8) ammunition loaded. Note every fifth round is a red-and-silver-tipped armor-piercing incendiary tracer round (M20).
Incendiary ammunition
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Incendiary ammunition is a type of ammunition that contains a chemical that, upon hitting a hard obstacle, has the characteristic of causing fire/setting flammable materials in the vicinity of the imp
Tracer ammunition
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A World War I era Buckingham incendiary round
Some sectioned shells from the First World War. From left to right: 90 mm shrapnel shell, 120 mm pig iron incendiary shell, 77/14 model - 75 mm high-explosive shell, model 16 - 75 mm shrapnel shell