Does anyone know how many 7.62x39mm Rounds have been produced since its Inception?
- Thread starter bryan.14
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309,872,128,890...but that was a few minutes ago.
Okay I didn't realize that information was classified.
However if the Chinese or Soviets ever leak any production numbers I be curious to know haha.
Sounds about right. :}
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- East of Home, West of the Rest
It isn't classified. They just don't say. What you are asking is the equivalent of asking "how many nuts and bolts has man ever made?"
Too many suppliers to ever find out a number, and supply hasn't stopped so the number is changing by the second.
You would have to tally every year, country, factory, military and civilian producer.
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The number of rounds per day that a good sized, well equipped ammunition plant can produce working 24/7 is astounding.
I have been told that the in the case of the M16 platform, 30 to 40 billion rounds have been expended. That is over fifty odd years.
I have been told that the in the case of the M16 platform, 30 to 40 billion rounds have been expended. That is over fifty odd years.
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- Middle East Alberta
Well, I have a couple crates, and my brother has a couple crates, so I can confidently say its more than 5,000 rounds.
Definitely not less than that.
Definitely not less than that.
For the win!
and when will you flood the market with all this cheap surplus ?
I would say that if somebody had all the access that was required, impeccable contacts, and infinite time and patience; they could probably produce a rough number for the amount of 7.62x39 produced by China and Russia with... mayhaps 60% accuracy at the most. That's just me guesstimating based on how I know lot numbers in factories work, and how records are kept. Provided the records were around, somebody could come up with a number that would probably be over half right - for those two countries.
But, consider: places like the Sudan and North Korea made/make it, as well as multiple combloc countries in the past. I would imagine that one would have reasonably good luck finding information for the Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic or East Germany, not so much with say...Albania. And that doesn't even touch on civilian loads of it from all over the place.
It's truly impossible to say. More than enough to kill us all dead, I'm sure.
But, consider: places like the Sudan and North Korea made/make it, as well as multiple combloc countries in the past. I would imagine that one would have reasonably good luck finding information for the Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic or East Germany, not so much with say...Albania. And that doesn't even touch on civilian loads of it from all over the place.
It's truly impossible to say. More than enough to kill us all dead, I'm sure.
And then there's this place, with kids making them in the backyard...
"People of this area believe: Many sons, and a lot of guns. This is the philosophy of the Darra peoples."
Side note: I'm not sure how they edited out the wheelbarrow that reporter needed to cart his balls around in.
"People of this area believe: Many sons, and a lot of guns. This is the philosophy of the Darra peoples."
Side note: I'm not sure how they edited out the wheelbarrow that reporter needed to cart his balls around in.
