More magazine capacity

[Retired Bum]

The information I posted was from the Internet and allegedly reported by the military. My BIL was in logistics during the first sandbox fighting in Iraq, reported higher consumption than Vietnam. Military sources claim the ratio was nearly 250k per casualty in the sandbox battles. What is the truth? I dunno.....

 

[1canvas]

The information I posted was from the Internet and allegedly reported by the military. My BIL was in logistics during the first sandbox fighting in Iraq, reported higher consumption than Vietnam. Military sources claim the ratio was nearly 250k per casualty in the sandbox battles. What is the truth? I dunno.....

It’s just hard to imagine that no one gets hit while 250,000 rounds are coming down range at them , I mean it would be raining bullets.

 

[Biggfoot44]

Do not shoot the monitor until you're sure the background is clear.

I always put them against my gravel pile , before l perform ballistic testing on electronic devices .

 

[HayesGreener]

It’s just hard to imagine that no one gets hit while 250,000 rounds are coming down range at them , I mean it would be raining bullets.

The total number of rounds expended is misleading. Accounting for training ammo, ammo given to allies, ammo expended in recon by fire, ammo fired from miniguns, only a small percentage of the total is fired by troops in contact with the enemy.

 

[Retired Bum]

How it was calculated and totaled is not mentioned. Nor is what was included i.e. training, or anything else.

How I interpret the information, is troops apparently can't shoot and our training is lacking and getting worse. Or. The adversaries are adapting to our methods and we aren't adaptive to them.

I don't know which is the case, but I am very well aware that cops have too think like criminals in order to catch them.

 

[bc22wm]

I suspect that some egg head took the number of all small arms ammo sent to Vietnam, divided it by the number of confirmed kills and ended up with X number of rounds for Y number of kills. He likely got paid handsomely/promoted and the DOD budget kept growing. Not against spending tax $ on defense or our soldiers but spending tax $ on B.S. "studies" rubs my fur the wrong way.