Talk:The Siege, Part 2

Guns not Goofs with the Drones
The anti-aircraft tracer fire shot during the daytime on the second attack wave were incorrectly identified as [supposedly-depleted] drone weapons, hence mentioned in the Goofs section. I removed that paragraph. You'll know those were M2 .50-cal. weapons fire because they all travel in groups along a predictable arc, meaning they don't turn and chase enemy darts like guided drones do. Don't let their apparent slow speed fool you, after many years of war in Iraq you can easily find videos of how tracers fired upwards will appear as seen from some distance. They sort of "curve" their way up, indicating how the gunner was attempting to track a target. Obviously there'll be more misses than hits with that manual method, that's why we abandoned 40-mm flak guns in favor of RADAR-guided surface-to-air missilesand computerized Gatling guns (i.e the Phalanx CIWS) to shoot down hostile aircraft.