Who, What, Why: How dangerous is firing a gun into the air?

Stealhead · 08-24-11, 10:09 AM

I tried to find some photos of Soviet troops in training with the blank adapters but I did not find any I have several old cold war era books that show them though.

Of course we have the MILES system which simulates bullets of various calibers so you cant kill a tank with an M-16.The Soviets never had anything like that and I don't think the Russian military does today not on a large scale anyway.Before MILES it was pretty easy to cheat one of my uncles told me about a war game in West Germany in the late 50s back in those days you had a team color which would be the color of your m1 helmet liner my uncle got picked to drive the commander around in a jeep and they took a wrong turn they stopped and realized that they where in "blue" territory and the radio operator takes out this little can of red paint and takes everyone's helmet liners and paints them red they figured that no red troops would not question a red officer riding in a jeep and they didn't.The trick was to have two sources of paint one in your color the other in the enemy color.

08-24-11, 10:09 AM	#26
Stealhead Navy Seal Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Kentucky Posts: 5,421 Downloads: 85 Uploads: 0	I tried to find some photos of Soviet troops in training with the blank adapters but I did not find any I have several old cold war era books that show them though. Of course we have the MILES system which simulates bullets of various calibers so you cant kill a tank with an M-16.The Soviets never had anything like that and I don't think the Russian military does today not on a large scale anyway.Before MILES it was pretty easy to cheat one of my uncles told me about a war game in West Germany in the late 50s back in those days you had a team color which would be the color of your m1 helmet liner my uncle got picked to drive the commander around in a jeep and they took a wrong turn they stopped and realized that they where in "blue" territory and the radio operator takes out this little can of red paint and takes everyone's helmet liners and paints them red they figured that no red troops would not question a red officer riding in a jeep and they didn't.The trick was to have two sources of paint one in your color the other in the enemy color.