By World War I, machine guns were fully automatic weapons that fired bullets rapidly, up to 450 to 600 rounds a minute. Honestly? "requirements" totaled nearly 5.6 billion rounds. more than doubled, from about 730 million to nearly 1.8 billion The bayonet, which was relied on by the prewar French Army as the decisive weapon, actually produced few casualties. When a sniper fired at an American column, the soldiers sprayed the trees with bullets as if they were spraying for insects. densely inhabited neighborhoods does not make for a safe environment. Armee used in one month in Stalingrad During World War II it was estimated that 45 000 rounds of small arms ammunition was fired to kill one enemy soldier. Pretty hard to aim well when you're aiming at muzzle flashes behind 200 trees. Powered by Invision Community. A government. strategy for purchasing as many as 2 billion rounds of small-caliber Also are phosphor pieces washed ashore on the beaches of the Baltic Sea, sometimes missinterpreted for being amber, problem is the phosphor starts burning again after getting warm again in your trousers pocket. How many. As reporter Katherine McIntire Peters remarks, We could kill one enemy for every 50,000 rounds. located near Independence, Missouri. However, we need to remember that, bullets were purposely fired not to kill, for example, suppress enemy fire, pin down enemy units in maneuvering, so you can "kill" them with mortar or artillery. You have proven you are a total idiot, your facts are the ideas of an active imagination that links into the Obama stupidity of Blaming others for their own mistakes. How much ammunition did the British use in France during WWI? How many bullets did Germany produce in WW2? In Vietnam the American military establishment consumed an estimated 50,000 rounds of ammunition for every enemy killed. Sign up for a new account in our community. I always thought grenades were kinda rare and a whole regiment would not use more than 10 in a day (usually only when attacking a bunker), the total amount in all the war must be sick. 3.6 billion being added during the next two years, the total for I wonder if those billions are the american billions or the rest of the world billions, that's a difference of many zeros. If they have killed only 30,000 in this way, How do modern wars compare? For the These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc. Most early war machine-guns were heavy and relatively immobile, requiring a team of soldiers to use. Just snap fire I think it was called. Analytical cookies are used to understand how visitors interact with the website. The former head of US forces in Iraq, General Tommy Franks, famously claimed that his forces "don't do body counts". These used ballistic cartridges with wooden or paper bullets, in both 6.6x50mm SR and 7.7x58mm SR. dailyinfo[25]=' 262952 Private Archibald Stanley BURGNEAY 8th Bn. General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems, to supply the government Maj-Gen Rick Lynch, the top US military spokesman in Iraq, said 1,534 insurgents had been seized or killed in a recent operation in the west of Baghdad. dailyinfo[1]=' Staff Nurse Edith Mary CAMMACK Associate of the Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class 4th Southern Gen. Hos. by U.S. forces during the past six fiscal years were fired in combat I'm sure I remember reading somewhere that the total for 18pr shrapnel shells alone, was about 100 million, which means something like 30 billion shrapnel balls, so there are still plenty to be picked up in the fields! Royal Scots who died 16/02/1919 ARBROATH EASTERN CEMETERY United Kingdom ' Assuming 10k the number of bullets fired would be 24 x 10^10. dailyinfo[30]=' B/469 Worker Charles BARLOW Australian Munition Worker who died 30/01/1918 NORTH SHEEN CEMETERY United Kingdom ' 5th Bde. bombs have also killed many people in the present wars, their vastly etc. Numerous studies have been done over the years to try to calculate this: I would imagine that much of the results are conjecture but it appears that during WW2 an average of 100,000 bullets were expended for every soldier killed. So let me reword this. or wounded by stray shots from American guns? Machine-guns pre-dated the First World War by half a century and were in widespread use by 1914, but doubts about their role and effectiveness limited the use of machine-guns in most pre-war armies. Not after all these years out here open to the public to climb over and be photographed sitting astride! Every infantry company would create a 30 yard range immediately adjacent to billets when out of line and would be expected to have it in use during all training periods. Combining tense, frightened solders, massive firepower, and US forces have fired so many bullets in Iraq and Afghanistan - an estimated 250,000 for every insurgent killed - that American ammunition-makers cannot keep up with demand. The German 6. You need to be a member in order to leave a comment. Unfortunately, I've seen more than one source say that from the Civil War forward, supply units issue about an average man's weight in ammunition per casualty inflicted on the enemy. Performance cookies are used to understand and analyze the key performance indexes of the website which helps in delivering a better user experience for the visitors. trigger fingers and react wildly to attacks, real or imagined, by increased from 11.7 million rounds to almost 22 million rounds.". The U.S. is going through so much ammo that manufacturers are struggling to keep up. Royal Army Medical Corps who died 22/02/1919 NUNHEAD (ALL SAINTS) CEMETERY United Kingdom ' Other uncategorized cookies are those that are being analyzed and have not been classified into a category as yet. area. There's some figures in this thread on another forum - can't vouch for them, but UK, USA and Gerrmany ear each said to produce billions of small arms rounds in 1944 alone. From June 1942 to April 20, 1944 when the contract ended, Chryslers Evansville arsenal produced 96 percent of the militarys .45 caliber cartridges: 3,264,281,914 rounds. There is such demand for popular ammo 5.56, 7.62, 9mm, .45 that the production waiting list must be very long. See full answer below. dailyinfo[29]=' Oberleutnant zur See Axel Carl Ludwig VON SCHOENERMARCK S.M.S. They were ordered to incinerate ammo by the pallet. Obviously not every single bullet was fired but I guess most of them were fired, now imagine all the bullets shot by the rest of the nations involved in ww2, all those bullets shot by the UK, Germany, Italy, Soviet Union, Japan, etc. So, what the government does is purchase a bunch of .40 cal pistols and then .40 cal ammo that is not in high demand. Yes, Russia did build 80,000 tanks in WW2, but many of the tanks at that time were incredibly basic. The total has more than doubled in five years, largely as a result of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as changes in military doctrine. The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. And you should never trust them to tell you the truth. How many bullets were used in WW2? Forces using 1.8 billion rounds of ammunition a year. Coy. How did 2 bullets cost 20 million lives in June 1914? Though millions of dollars have been spent on upgrading the facilities, they remain unable to meet current munitions needs in their current state. Firing Squads (World War I) . The shells are now harmless. end of 2005, the Army had established an acquisition Every five days, on average, a Chicago police officer fired a gun at someone. Same goes for bullets fired straight up from the ground - though it seems that it's undecided exactly how dangerous these are. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Other. But senior officers have recently claimed "great successes" in Iraq, based on counting the bodies of insurgents killed. Many had fewer than five hours. I find the story about the Grand Slam quite amusing but you have to wonder how it is that no one checked to see if it was live it boggles the mind :Os. Subscribe to our monthly Newsletter to receive firearm news, product discounts from your favorite Industry Partners, and more. The other was Israel Military Industries, an Israeli ammunition manufacturer linked to the Israeli government, which produces the bulk of weapons and ordnance for the Israeli Defence Force. dailyinfo[8]=' Ersatz-Reservist August KOOP 5./I.R.425 German Army who died 08/02/1919 ADINKERKE MILITARY CEMETERY Belgium ' dailyinfo[14]=' 15697 Private William SWINDELL 10th Bn.