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Stopped putting tracers into fighter craft ammunition belts or magazines.
> The parent seems to be talking about ground AA gun crews using tracers -- presumably a lot of these would be firing at bombers?
I'm not aware of tracer ammo even existing for the big flak guns. This material implies there wasn't any.
http://www.lonesentry.com/manuals/88mm-antiaircraft-gun/ammu...
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Stopped putting tracers into fighter craft ammunition belts or magazines.
> The parent seems to be talking about ground AA gun crews using tracers -- presumably a lot of these would be firing at bombers?
I'm not aware of tracer ammo even existing for the big flak guns. This material implies there wasn't any.
http://www.lonesentry.com/manuals/88mm-antiaircraft-gun/ammu...