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steve19 | 5 years ago

60,000 artillery shells would be surprising, but 60k rounds of rifle or pistol ammunition is not much.

That is one pallet, at a cost of maybe $20,000 at bulk retail in the USA.

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hdjrkrmfkt|5 years ago

US army fired on average 250k rounds to kill one enemy combatant in Iraq.

https://m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/us-forced-t...

tmh79|5 years ago

I mean, this is specifically accurate but a useless metrics.

Its literally bullets/kill.

Modern urban warfare tactics include a whole lot of shooting where the intent is not to kill the enemy, but to make the enemy hide and reduce their ability to shoot at you.

The army also uses lot of ammo to train and stay competent.

Its similar to how most military pilots clock hundreds of hours flying for every hour of combat they experience.

Bullets/kill is like an extreme version of "game winning scores"/"all shots ever taken in a game or training"

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suppressive_fire#:~:text=In%20...]

kapnobatairza|5 years ago

Another way the movie Starship Troopers would predict the Iraq War.

dreamcompiler|5 years ago

Exactly. I know people who shoot 2000 rounds in a weekend of target practice. This might be a large amount in a country where guns are rare, but it's nothing in the US.

bpodgursky|5 years ago

Yeah I mean, missing material sucks and shouldn't be routine, but this is pretty trivial bullet count compared to what any military runs through in marksmanship training on a daily basis.

Seems far more likely that one pallet is moulding in a corner of a warehouse somewhere (or accidentally got thrown away) than that a right-wing paramilitary group is stealing bullets from the German military, that they simply can't find anywhere else.

charlchi|5 years ago

> 60,000 rounds of rifle or pistol ammunition is not much.

Military equiment being lost is a regular occurrence?

steve19|5 years ago

Lost could just mean expended in training but with slightly poor recording keeping that added up over time.

adventured|5 years ago

Germany spends half a trillion dollars per decade on its military. It would not be surprising if $20k of ammo vanishes for any number of reasons (theft, misplaced, miscounted).