I started doing some round comparisons for alternate history purposes.
A thing that comes up a couple times for soldiers loads is the 10kg ammo load.
The first thing I noticed was that the basic load of 210 rounds for a US Army infantryman is nowhere near 10kg. It's more like 3.2kg.
Why isn't the basic load the full 10kg?
The answer kind of lays with the Browning Automatic Rifle, M1918 type. The 13 magazine basic load for a BAR gunner is very nearly ten kilograms (9.43kg).
It then occurred to me that the 10kg limit is the basic load plus the ammo everybody carries to feed the squad gun.
Hey, grunts, chime in here.
A thing that comes up a couple times for soldiers loads is the 10kg ammo load.
The first thing I noticed was that the basic load of 210 rounds for a US Army infantryman is nowhere near 10kg. It's more like 3.2kg.
Why isn't the basic load the full 10kg?
The answer kind of lays with the Browning Automatic Rifle, M1918 type. The 13 magazine basic load for a BAR gunner is very nearly ten kilograms (9.43kg).
It then occurred to me that the 10kg limit is the basic load plus the ammo everybody carries to feed the squad gun.
Hey, grunts, chime in here.