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Originally Posted by Medley1991
I only see on real life the GoalKeepper firing, but the russian version have realy this "green" trace ?
The GoalKeepper is more yellow/orange.  |
I've seen Soviet tracers depicted as usually being green as far back as WWII. Here's a video clip of what's ostensibly an AK-630 firing - the colors are hard to read on the old video quality, and the old video quality would suggest using tracers was more of an 80's thing - but they do appear like they're green, just as green shows up on relatively older cameras.
(1:06 seconds)
Also,
source 1 on the gun itself mentions it a few times, and
another about the ammo, where you'll have to scroll down to "Naval Weapons", list tracers as one of their rounds.
But I've seen plenty of US C-RAM guns (a Phalanx plopped on land) firing red tracers - my guess is the tracer color is related to what resources are more naturally/commonly available in each country.
Addendum:
Wikipedia and
a Quora seem to back up this supposition - US/Western tracers typically working around Strontium, which seems a bit more complex to get it to work well, with Chinese and Russian tracers using green-burning Barium salts. Could be resource availability or just preference for what may be a simpler construction? Not sure, but it seems they use green tracers, either way.