Plastic blank rounds.

>>33135469
If I were to venture a guess it would be because it takes out the weight. Plastic blanks are much lighter than brass ones let alone live ammo. So most militaries want their soldiers to be used to carrying the weight of real ammo

>>33135536
>>33135469

Basically it's because weight of plastic case is not immersive enough to the real thing.
Which is a stupid reason because they are still blanks

>>33135536
>>33135659
That does make some sense, but it's still lighter without the bullet so... Not really...
They could give soldiers some led squares to put on the bottom of the ammo pouch, if they want to "keep it realz".

>>33135469
Black plastic would be hell to visually inspect a chamber for in low light when sleep deprived and hungry, like many field exercises tend to induce.

Someone will think black means unloaded, and then pop off a blank where they shouldn't.

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>>33135790
No problem in making them yellow or even glowing. Yea black color is stupid. I also picked up some that ware bright blue, though.

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>>33135808
Those look like chalk markers. They have them for 40mm too.

>>33135817
I have dummy 40mm, but the "bullet" is solid plastic, I think.

>>33135469
They jam like crazy.

>>33135808
>>33135790
But it dosen't even matter because you could only see the base of the cartridge, which is silver anyways...

>>33135868
U german?

>>33135871
Unless the bolt covers up the base when you pull the charging handle back and the ejector spring breaks

Unlikely but still quite possible.

>>33135808
Those definitely aren't blanks, that plastic tip goes downrange at some stupid velocity and shoots pretty flat for the first hundred meters or so. It's an indoor target training round.

>>33135832
You can see in the cutaway the chalk. It is meant to rupture the plastic on impact.

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>>33135868
This.

During my service we hated those things - they convert your gun to a straight-pull, regardless of the setting of your pic related.

>>33135469
It looks like Flandre used them at msw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpXkmlNHR9o

>>33135922
They could be blanks, we had ones where the bullet was made from wood/glue shit which then blew apart on the blank firing adaptor

>>33136196
Holy fucking shit that was cringeworthy and autistic.

Couldn't make it past 2 minutes.

>>33136206
That sounds like a unholy fucking mess.

>>33136206
What happened when the barrel was full of wood/glue shit? I call BS.

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They use red plastic ones in Norway. Called "rodfis / redfarts"

>>33136247
>>33136255
I explained it badly, yes, it makes the weapon dirty as hell though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhKrdNq4TUg

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>>33136255
I dunno. I had an old army guy tell me the same thing, they used wooden blanks that were supposed to disintegrate but if you were too close you could get hit. They ambushed a column with 50cals and a huge cqb fight erupted and some guys lost eyes to wooden blanks

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>>33136265
Here you go

>>33136265
So the BFA dosen't make a complete seal like a traditional one used with crimped rounds?

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>>33136304
Construction of the BFA was kinda like pic related, been a while since I shot blanks, the brown part is the barrel and the arrow is the bullet

>>33136342
That makes more sense. I retract my Bull Shit call.

>molten plastic inside the barrel
Yeah nah.

>>33136206
It's not a blank. You used to be able to buy then here. That plastic bullet stays whole and goes retard fast.

>>33136272
You can hurt a person with an empty blank too. When you are shooting without blank fire adapter the gasses and blackpowder are flying out of the barrel and can cause some injuries.

>>33136408
It's not plastic, darling, it's wood. Here >>33136289 are some FDF blanks pictured.

I'd rather not make a mess and pull the bullets off the casings, but I will if you insist

>>33136429
I meant those blue bullets. Those ones are plastic. You could buy them real cheap a few years ago, along with a new lighter bolt for the g3 to cycle them.

>>33136747
Well okay, carry on then.

>>33136216
wew
newfags

>>33136933
A bunch of tripfags being retarded is not approved old /k/ content.

>>33136196
Hold on, they went to airshit game and used real guns firing blanks? What the fuck for.

>>33135790
Except for the fact that it's plastic and not a blank, so if they pulled the trigger nothing would happen

>>33137384
Dude, what?

>reading this thread

Non american here, what are blanks usually made of? Ours were always wooden with an attachment to the barrel that would smash it to dust.
It did leave some fouling but i'd imagine molten plastic would be horrible.

>>33137450
Yeah we've had a couple of finns in this thread already

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>>33137450
Generally it's a normal cartridge with a longer neck, they crimp the neck so that the powder dosen't fall out and the BFA forms a tight seal so the gas system can cycle.

>>33137408
Misunderstood what they were, thought the whole thing was plastic, like a dummy round