Buy the new US military rifle before the troops get them

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

In iraq and Afghanistan,  it has been estimated the US forces fired approximately 300,000 bullets for each person it hit.    At this rate, if the US were to fight a land war in China using $3 bullets, it would require 1,500 years’ worth of total current annual defense spending just to procure the necessary bullets!


To put it another way, at $3 per bullet and 300,000 bullets per hit, the three billion dollars of US aid to Ukraine so far will not pay for enough bullets to inflict the casualties the Ukrainians alledgedly inflicted on the Russians even if it all went to paying for bullets.

One must likewise wonder the cost of a Javalin missile versus the cost of a Russian tank?  The Russians appear to be in no hurry, perhaps having done the math themselves here.

A Javelin anti-tank missile costs $78 000. The most widely used Russian battle tank - the T-72 - costs over $1 million. If the tank is hit by a Javelin missile, it costs $1 million + up to 3 human lives.

Boru