I assume the "standard load" is still 7 magazines. BUT, I see all kinds of rigs that seem to carry mags on them. Is it more than the standard load, less than the standard load, or do you feel comfortable with rounds? I carried six on me and one in my M4. That shit gets heavy real quick when you are humping through knee deep mud. The M2A1 steel ammo can has rounds in 30 rd stripper clip boxes, 1 box per mag 3X So you can get 28 mags from one can. I hazard a guess they prefer to have 7 additional fully loaded mags rather than a bandoleer; in the middle of a firefight is an akward time to be reloading mags.
If you're carrying an M9, you need a pouch or two for mags for it 15 rounders , and you might also be carrying an ammo box or two for the Squad Auto Weapon guy. Plus the new weapon that has just come out that has a 25mm exploding anti-personnel grenade. Sucker gets the range from the soldier hitting a button on a laser range finder, and if it needs to go through a window or doorway before exploding, the soldier adds a meter or two to the range computer.
The round arms itself while it's on the way just like the 40mm and blows up once it goes the designated range. Good chance of ruining Mohomarr's day when it explodes. Wound serrated metal spring, just like in the Vietnam grenade, and makes you into a collander.
They gave a bunch to the Army to try out in Afghanistan; skuttlebutt is the Army guys that have them don't want to give them back, and they want more ammo. The grunts' point is they can wipe out an entire room of BGs with one grenade because it explodes overhead.
I fully agree. I carry six Depends on the mission, duration, and threat level. My kit is usually configured to carry about eight magazines, with room for a couple more. Bandoleers with spare magazines are usually stashed in all the vehicles, if absolutely necessary you're going to be away from the vehicle for a long time, no re-supply, ect. The most I ever carried was fourteen plus one in the rifle double basic load.
Sometimes when running low-vis in civilian clothes, I carried four in the kit, and one in the rifle. It really depends on a lot of things. Sometimes with non-combat arms folks we'd ask them to only bring four M4 magazines enough to defend themselves and carry belted ammunition- the idea being if the shit hit the fan, they probably can't shoot as well, are not used to kinetic operations, and everyone's always much happier when there's more machine gun ammunition. No point having a commo guy and civil affairs girl hosing blindly with their M4s when we could have more ammunition on hand for the or to lay down effective suppressive.
The basic load for issue is seven magazines per soldier and a basic load of rounds- M and 40 M tracer. Anyone that doesn't bring or can't acquire more magazines or ammunition is a dummy. Given the ammunition accountability consumption reports, end of tour turn-in I prefer to "acquire" whatever I can- it doesn't take long if you know where to look to get enough ammunition for a platoon that you can stash your initial ammo issue and lock it up in the connex untouched for the whole tour so you can have an easy turn in.
True Velocity Ammunition LLC began designing polymer-cased ammunition for the military in and now makes the 6. The U. Army has had a lightweight ammunition requirement for going on 40 years now. It's just [that] nobody has been able to bring a viable solution to the table," said Pat Hogan, chief marketing officer for True Velocity.
Both Textron and True Velocity maintain that their polymer-cased ammo designs offer about a 30 percent weight savings over brass ammunition, but also bring increased performance. In , polymer-cased technology suffered from too many flaws to perform adequately under harsh combat conditions, according to findings in the ARDEC report.
Since then, companies like Textron and True Velocity have learned how to solve the problems highlighted in the report, such as "cracks on the case mouth, neck, body and base" and "insufficient high temperature resistance. Excessive heat buildup can cause ammo to cook off or explode in the weapon, a problem True Velocity's case technology has licked, he said. The cylindrical design of Textron's case-telescoped ammunition "really allows you to minimize exposure to heat," Prender said, explaining that the weapons system and CT ammo work together to dissipate heat.
Other companies have shown enough promise in polymer-cased ammo technology to attract the military's interest. Future contracts will be informed by the results of this evaluation. But Lt. Bill Lanham, MCSC's deputy program manager for ammunition, sounded confident, in the contract award announcement, that the Corps will one day transition to polymer-cased ammo.
What military, what caliber round, what role in a section, resupply or not, mounted vs dismounted ops. Reconnaissance or direct action. Regardless, it is encouraged for modern infantry solider to carry 5—7 full magazines for his primary weapon and 3—4 for the secondary weapon. The basic combat load for a modern infantry soldier who might reasonably expect to be aggressively engaging the enemy about six magazines plus one loaded in the weapon is fairly normal but that could easily double depending on what other equipment needed to be carried.
Aside from that, the answer is it depends. Some will carry a lot more than the minimum seven rifle magazines, as well as pistol magazines if they carry a sidearm.
It all depends on the situation, and most warfighters whose primary weapon is an assault rifle will carry more than seven, if not on their immediate person at least in a pack or in a nearby vehicle, but the basic combat load is one in the rifle and six more at the ready. Watling was embedded in Iraq and has direct experience of operations in several other theaters.
A M4 carbine and ammunition add another 15 lbs. Then there are grenades, food, and water, a poncho, and liner, plus personal items such as a flashlight, night vision gear, and medical kit. This personal equipment along can easily run to 70 lbs. We haven't even mentioned squad and platoon weapons, and let's face it: Someone has to carry the ammunition.
A single 60mm mortar round weighs four. A belt of ammunition for the squad's M machine gun weighs six lbs, and soldiers tend to carry all they can. And then there is the bane of every technology user: batteries. King estimates that the average soldier goes into action with a hefty 20 lbs of batteries. With its weight problem seemingly multiplying, the military is trying to find lighter solutions. The Pentagon already makes everything from Kevlar, carbon fiber, and other lightweight materials, though this trend has led to a widespread joke: A soldier carries lbs.
In the past, of course, armies used the low-tech solution of pack animals to move their gear. These days, tech companies envision robots becoming the modern military mule. Although quadruped robots like BigDog from Boston Dynamics is no longer in the running it turned out to be a bit too noisy , there are numerous wheeled alternatives.
The U. Such robots can operate on their own either following a leader or plotting their own route cross-country using GPS waypoints.
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