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A standard NATO soldier should carry 210 rounds of 5.56 ammo. That's 7 30-magazine clips if he actually has all of them in clips. If you ever saw any combat vi
by jajko 2y ago
A standard NATO soldier should carry 210 rounds of 5.56 ammo. That's 7 30-magazine clips if he actually has all of them in clips.
If you ever saw any combat video, soldiers often fire a LOT, experienced or not (experienced just tend to hit more often). Maybe not a full auto, but nobody thinks in '1 bullet per enemy' mentality, self-preservation makes you overdo it, and they train you to not save on ammo unless you are cut off from supplies.
> U.S. forces have expended at least 250,000 small-caliber bullets for every insurgent killed in the present wars
Think about that number for a second. Technically, 1000 fully equipped NATO soldiers fire all their carried ammo per 1 single dead enemy. Life ain't Call of Duty.
- mike_hearn 2y agoOf course nobody thinks they're going to get a kill shot with every single bullet. But if you were to fire continuously you'd get through 210 rounds in like 20 seconds or something. Unless you plan to be in the battlefield for only a few minutes you've got to be pretty careful with that ammo.
- hollerith 2y ago>>unless they are in a defensive machine gun nest or on some sort of vehicle >U.S. forces have expended at least 250,000 small-caliber bullets for every insurgent killed in the present wars Right, but it is that high because of the machine gun nests and vehicles.