The Use of Tracer as a Marksmanship Aid with Unzeroed Rifles in Daylight

Abstract

Each of 12 infantrymen engaged targets at a nominal 500-meter range firing up to 17 rounds per target engagement of ball or tracer ammunition in daylight semiautomatically from an M14 rifle whose sights were biased two standard deviations either high or low in a test of the hypothesis that tracer ammunition would provide a marksmanship aid. Analyses of hit and rate of fire data showed no statistically significant differences as a function of either ammunition type of sight bias.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1974
Accession Number
AD0779525

Entities

People

  • John L. Miles Jr.

Organizations

  • United States Army Materiel Command

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Ammunition
  • Analysis Of Variance
  • Ball Ammunition
  • Cameras
  • Data Science
  • Daylight
  • Engineering
  • Firing Rate
  • Human Factors Engineering
  • Information Science
  • Instrumentation
  • Marksmanship
  • Miss Distance
  • Ordnance Laboratories
  • Statistics
  • Tracer Ammunition
  • Weapons

Readers

  • Fluid Dynamics.
  • Marksmanship and Weaponry.
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.