Re:Germany's military missing over 60k rounds of ammunition
by dasm on Friday July 17, 2020 @07:16PM
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As you said, we have a little bubble on guns & ammo in the US right now.
Basic NATO 5.56 - ie, cheap enough for practice or poorly equipped grunts - is probably ~$0.30/round. However, it doesn't specify the caliber or load.
Loads designed for combat and not practice - like armor piercing, barrier penetration, soft target performance, precision, short barrel optimized, etc. - could be ~2-7x more expensive, and more indicative of a serious organizational problem.
Small arms calibers could include .50BMG, which is also a much larger cost & problem.
Re:Germany's military missing over 60k rounds of ammunition
by chrismcb on Friday July 17, 2020 @07:07PM
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The article says more than 68k missing since 2010. But that is profanity a rounding error.
Quick Google search says a person should consider shooting from 50 to 600 rounds in a session. At 500 rounds, 60k is only 120 sessions. Maybe 500 is to many, so maybe it is 240 sessions... For an entire army.
That amount doesn't strike me as large if spread across the entirety of the Bundeswehr, which has some 200k personnel and a budget of $50 billion according to Wikipedia. However, the article mentions 48k more rounds missing from the KSK, a unit of only 1,100 men that's apparently had issues with some members holding extremist attitudes. 48k rounds missing seems somewhat significant at that scale.
https://www.midsouthshooterssupply.com/dept/ammunition/rifle...