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There was a report - from a reliable source, iirc - that the Americans in Iraq were running out of small arms ammo, and had to buy/borrow 6.000.000.000 rounds from the Israelis Anyway, someone crunched the numbers and calculated that they used on average 250.000 rounds per 'confirmed dead terrorist'. If that's true, I must be dumb as a rock for thinking they have good marksmen So they must have a different philosophy. Their tanks are real gas-guzzlers, and must need resupply almost every day - and what does it look like with ammo? Well, their tanks have about as much main armament ammo as everyone else (40-45) but they have about three times as much MG ammo as the rest of us - aha! - what could be the reason for that, I wonder Philosophy = 'spray it like Peter N' |
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Volume of fire.
[QUOTE=palo5;2063033]They use a lot of ammo, that's for sure. The ground troops anyway
There was a report - from a reliable source, iirc - that the Americans in Iraq were running out of small arms ammo, and had to buy/borrow 6.000.000.000 rounds from the Israelis It's volume of fire not accuracy that counts in combat,if you can force the enemy to keep their heads down,you can manoeuvre, and they can't. The Americans might be more prodigal than some ,but the German infantry section in WW2 was based around two and sometimes three machine guns. Furthermore British troops in Helmand have expended record levels of ammunition |
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I understand what you mean, but it's not true everywhere. Snipers, who can hold up battalions, would certainly disagree, so would the people they shoot at
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When companies use 20 mpg as an advert flash and won't build diesels for normal road cars economy is relative.... For a really green tank you need a hybrid like prius and as ever we asked first and got this... Its a hybrid tech demonstrator for the on again off again on again fres programme or the apc from aliens not sure which |
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BTW; thank you to all contributors. I didn't think it would get this much following
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