[primeval patriot]

January 11, 2004

U.S. ammunition plant reaching its limit

[P8riot]

They're taking the wrong approach. What they need to do is swap out all of the 5.56mm uppers on their m4s to 7.62mm x 39 and use all of that captured AK-47 ammo that's lying around.

Better yet issue our guys captured AK's and let them go at it. The 7.62mm x 39 is a better round for close in work anyway.

[Atlas Sneezed]

According to a requisition last week by the Army Field Support Command, the service will need 300m to 500m more bullets a year for at least five years, or more than 1.5m a year for combat and training. And because the single army-owned, small-calibre ammunition factory in Lake City, Missouri, can produce only 1.2m bullets annually...

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I think there are some massive math errors here. Some "millions" should be "billions"? The army needs 1,500,000 cartridges? That's on the order of one per troop. I suspect that 1.5 billion is the correct number, and I'll bet that Lake City can produce more than 137 cartridges per hour (assuming round the clock operation.)

[jpsb]

This is what happens when all manurfacturing is moved overseas, the US can't defend itself because it doesn't have the ability to make anything anymore.

Nice job free traders.

[hopespringseternal]

According to a requisition last week by the Army Field Support Command, the service will need 300m to 500m more bullets a year for at least five years, or more than 1.5m a year for combat and training.

It takes a special kind of idiot to write a sentence like this.