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Sep 21, 2022 at 18:26	comment	added	Darrel Hoffman		@Graham And for that to really work, most of those bullets would have to hit. The 250,000 figure only happens because the vast, vast majority of those shots don't actually hit anyone, and weren't even necessarily trying to. I guess with zombies you don't really need suppressive fire, since they're not (generally) shooting back at you. But you do need to land a much higher percentage of your shots than you would with a typical target (where just one well-placed shot might be enough to take them down).
Sep 20, 2022 at 23:15	comment	added	Nepene Nep		That would cause problems for a larger war, but the various government groups have a lot of ammo stockpiles around, and civilian stockpiles are pretty high as well. They can probably get together a few billion rounds. Ten million necromorphs might well make them run out.
Sep 20, 2022 at 16:47	comment	added	Graham		The maths don't work for the supply chain. Let's suppose we have 2 orders of magnitude less bullets needed here, so 2500 rounds per zombie. Then to kill 1.5m zombies, you need 3.75 billion rounds. For comparison, the entire US military used around 6 billion rounds between 2002 and 2005. That means for one engagement, you need to supply as many rounds as were shipped to Iraq and Afghanistan in 2 years.
Sep 20, 2022 at 9:39	history	answered	Nepene Nep	CC BY-SA 4.0