Tracer Bullet (Noun)
Meaning
Ammunition whose flight can be observed by a trail of smoke.
Classification
Nouns denoting man-made objects.
Examples
- Soldiers fired tracer bullets at enemy aircraft to improve their accuracy in aerial combat.
- Tracer bullets can reveal a rifleman's firing position and serve as an unshielded enemy radar for detecting that source location.
- Marine sentry men set off bright trails across night-sky areas illuminated only by enemy bullets being fed along high-traversing weapon trails as several sentries fire with clip after clip in return, making use of every tracer bullet available.
- Flamethrowers and the new submachine guns were among the first U.S. military firearms ever fitted to shoot several brand new military cartridge types with metal-coated incendiary and fire-resistant low-lighted low-gliding automatic highly visible short/long-range tracer bullets alike.
- Night training for the platoon became the most anticipated time since live rounds fired from one rifle proved what shooting practice looked like when equipped with super-high-powered M198 ammo - all brand-new riflemen opened fire simultaneously letting out bright paths illuminating target scores across practice zones using specialized tracer bullets.