7.62×39mm
- Per box
- $40
- Standard, per round
- —
- Base damage
- 42
- Weapons
- 1
Base damage is where the round starts, before the load, armour, range and where you hit it come off — the same figure our time-to-kill study works from. It is not what a shot takes off a player.
The three loads
price per round
Full Metal Jacket
no price
Standard ammunition. Deals even damage to all target types.
Hollow Point
no price
Increased damage against flesh. Decreased damage against armored targets.
Armor Piercing
no price
Meant for armoured targets. How much it actually gets through a plate has never been published.
The round itself
same for every gun that chambers it7.62×39mm hits for 42 against a 100-health target, so 3 clean hits with no armour in the way. It penetrates, and skips off anything it strikes shallower than 10°.
- Damage
- 42
- Speed
- 386 m/s
- Mass
- 8 g
- Calibre
- 7.92 mm
- Drag
- 1.2
- Penetration
- ×1
- Ricochet below
- 10°
- Tracer
- None
Speed here is the projectile's own. Each weapon carries a second, higher figure of its own, and nothing yet settles which one governs a shot in flight — so the two are kept apart rather than reconciled. Damage is before armour; what a plate takes off it is on the gear pages.
What fires 7.62×39mm
1 weaponHow to read this
The box price is the list price, taken straight off the vendor in the Closed Alpha and carrying none of the −50% recruit discount the weapon and vehicle tiles did — so it compares directly with what a weapon costs.
The weapon list is checked three ways — what each weapon prints on its own vendor card, what the game files it under, and which magazines it takes. All three agree.
The loads are a real choice with no published maths behind it. They are separate rounds at separate prices. How much more Hollow Point takes off an unarmoured target, and how much Armor Piercing gets through a plate, has never been published — so nothing here puts a figure on it.
Recorded during the Closed Alpha and held until Bulkhead lifted its content embargo on 11 August 2026. How we source and label everything.
Where this calibre sits in the game
Every calibre and what it costs
The full price ladder, cheapest box first.
The time-to-kill study
What the base damage figure above actually buys you.
Complete builds by what they cost
What feeding this calibre leaves in the balance.
What a round actually pays
One complete payout, line by line, and the loadout refund on death.