The US military carries 7 magazines 30 rounds per mag for their M4 as the standard. The Austrian military tends to carry 5 magazines for their Steyr Aug and the German military also carries 5 mags for their Heckler and Koch G Your email address will not be published. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam.
Learn how your comment data is processed. Spec Ops Magazine. Contents hide. Marksman has the favor for accuracy; with this, they can survive with limited bullets. Artilleryman prepares 4 — 8 rounds of heavy explosive ammunition to fire.
The weight of the bullets is indeed heavy, so that it may be limited. Along with other weapons, more ammo for the whole trip is distributed to the whole squad. Their combat load usually does not include a rifle because they are not threatened by direct fire. However, body armor is needed for the artilleryman. The primary danger they can encounter is the shrapnel from the counterattack. Along with this, they carry a loaded pistol and firearms with a few magazines. However, if the squad mission is longer and the anticipated amount of platoon is higher, other rucks are filled.
But, how long does ammo last? A soldier in WW2 carries magazines with 30 rounds each in the basic combat load. Superior firing can pin down a platoon and allows the infantryman to get close. A soldier like a BAR rifleman in WW2 had an assistant firing man and ammo bearer, so if he would give all of the bullets to the carrier, the gunner could use more or less 14 magazines. Firearms and other weapons carried by a soldier are useless without any round to reload.
The design aimed to give special operators more ammunition at ready inside a reliable package that could stand up to combat. At the time, the rifles came from Colt and other sub-manufacturers with a small round magazine. At the Naval Weapons Laboratory in Dahlgren, Virginia, engineers drew up plans for a more immediate solution. Chief among them was Carroll Childers, who spent nearly three decades cooking up weapons — including futuristic shotguns and more — for the Navy, all while also serving as an officer in the Virginia Army National Guard.
He ultimately retired as a major general. Colt had already sent along a dubious prototype of its own consisting of three rounders someone had welded together at the ends and a longer spring to push them all up to the top. Yes, I've read that book as well. Excellent book, btw. That said, I'm pretty sure he's related in several of his books that when going on special operations, you want to be prepared for all eventualities and therefore you take as much ammo as is reasonably possible.
Bascially, you don't want to assume the mission will be as easy as it appears it might be, otherwise you get caught with your pants down, so to speak, sort of like the Rangers assuming they'd be back before nightfall. Now with a combat vest and webbed gear as well as a bandolier, that would mean carrying clips of primary and several clips of secondary is not out of the question for a SEAL covered in such gear that has many clip-sized pockets on it for a reason.
Of course with all the other stuff they take, they wouldn't want to weight themselves down too much. I can't tell you about Spec Ops, but I can tell you what an infantryman would carry. On exercises, we usually carried between 6 and 10 30 round magazines with us. Regular infantrymen do not carry pistols. Only pilots, crewmembers and some officers carry pistols. Pistols are useless in open warfare and are really only a "last-ditch" weapon really.
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