Curious about just how many bullets you'd get in a 60 ton shipment, (see previous story) I did a little rooting around on the internet, and found this:
PERFORMANCE ORIENTED PACKAGING TESTING
OF
PPP-B-621 WOOD BOX FOR
7.62 X 39MM AK47 BALL CARTRIDGE
FOR PACKING GROUP II SOLID HAZARDOUS MATERIAL
That's the title of an eight page test report authored by Kerry J. Libbert, Mechanical Engineer, at the Naval Surface Warfare Center at Crane, Indiana, in August of 1993.
Very informative document.
Found out that the standard wooden crate that the US Navy uses to ship AK-47 ammo weighs 81.5 pounds and holds a thousand rounds - in fifty boxes of 20 cartridges each. That would give you about 25 boxes per ton, and a million and a half rounds in that 60 ton shipment the Russians just delivered to Syria.
Assuming of course that when the Russians are shipping AK-47 bullets they're using the same packaging as the US Navy!
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