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6/12/2025, 10:25:48 PM
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>You are as high as fuck right now. 7.62x51mm is $0.85 per round
>m855 is $0.60
>50BMG is FOUR DOLLARS EACH, and thats bulk retail
Sorry anon, but other anon is correct in a MILITARY CONTEXT though of course would be wrong in a civilian context. In the military context, your figures for cost there don't include "shipping and handling :^)", ie, the cost in logistics to get something 6000 fucking miles into a jungle or remote desert or wherever it is the military is fighting, and keeping those supply lines protected from attack/sabotage/malfunction and so on and so forth, and being able to have flexibility for weapons issues and force redeployment and on and on. It's not coming on the fedex truck to a suburb in "7-10 business days" for your range trip in a month.
It's the same reason the army has completely standardized for fuel on JP8 and the old ideas of running on whatever aren't a thing. Yeah it's more expensive per gallon, but it's absolutely worth it for the standardization, reduced maintenance and so on. The dominating cost is logistics not unit cost.
You could right say though that the reverse is a source of not just fuddlore but tacticool zoomielore: folks looking at what the military does to fight on the other side of the planet at mass scale with whatever recruits they've got, and then thinking that must be the best thing for them to do as civilians defending their house or own land. What makes sense for one isn't necessarily right for the other and vice versa. There's never a substitute for using your brain.
>You are as high as fuck right now. 7.62x51mm is $0.85 per round
>m855 is $0.60
>50BMG is FOUR DOLLARS EACH, and thats bulk retail
Sorry anon, but other anon is correct in a MILITARY CONTEXT though of course would be wrong in a civilian context. In the military context, your figures for cost there don't include "shipping and handling :^)", ie, the cost in logistics to get something 6000 fucking miles into a jungle or remote desert or wherever it is the military is fighting, and keeping those supply lines protected from attack/sabotage/malfunction and so on and so forth, and being able to have flexibility for weapons issues and force redeployment and on and on. It's not coming on the fedex truck to a suburb in "7-10 business days" for your range trip in a month.
It's the same reason the army has completely standardized for fuel on JP8 and the old ideas of running on whatever aren't a thing. Yeah it's more expensive per gallon, but it's absolutely worth it for the standardization, reduced maintenance and so on. The dominating cost is logistics not unit cost.
You could right say though that the reverse is a source of not just fuddlore but tacticool zoomielore: folks looking at what the military does to fight on the other side of the planet at mass scale with whatever recruits they've got, and then thinking that must be the best thing for them to do as civilians defending their house or own land. What makes sense for one isn't necessarily right for the other and vice versa. There's never a substitute for using your brain.
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