Comments on: D-Day – After

By: radfire

radfire — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:49:21 +0000

Very informative, got lot of interest in war history related posts

By: DominicJ

DominicJ — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 22:14:27 +0000

Whoops, out a bit there.
The six heavy machine guns of a single company would require 10,000 pounds of ammunition every 24 hours.
6 Milan launchers and 72 missiles weighs 8826 pounds and would be spent in 4 minutes of sustained combat.
A Chinook can carry 24,000 pounds, so two companies worth of heavy machine gun ammunition or 10 minutes of anti tank weaponry.

Thats not including food, water, personal weapons ammunition ect.

And I always laughed when I read about the logistics arms of the forces.

By: DominicJ

DominicJ — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:05:11 +0000

“It is often said that amateurs discuss tactics yet professionals discuss logistics. After the initial amphibious assault maintaining the momentum and breaking out of the bridgehead required both follow on forces but also a significant amount of fuel, ammunition, food and the millions of other things and army in the field needs to sustain itself.”

I’m currently reading “Target Basra” and its currently explaining the difficulty of keeping the combat troops supplied.
A force of 800 marines would need 10,000 pounds of gpmg ammunition ever four hours.
I think they expected to have used their 8,000 pounds of anti tank munitions in the first 12 minutes if the tank force nearby moved to attack them.

I’ll double check tonight, but the numbers were just mind boggling.