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How the M16 Helped Create the M4, a 2 Minute History: From the jungles of Vietnam to deserts in the Middle East, the M4 can...
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How the M16 Helped Create the M4, a 2 Minute History: From the jungles of Vietnam to deserts in the Middle East, the M4 can...
6 Deadliest Rifles of the US Military, Explained: Assault rifles, battle rifles, they’re all here. Though some of the rifle platforms originally entered service during...
The field of military small arms is an underappreciated but important one. Although not as sexy as nuclear weapons, fighter jets or tanks, battle...
In Part One of this series, we discussed how the U.S. Army came to dump the M14 battle rifle for the M16 assault rifle....
The M16 rifle is one of the most iconic weapons of the post-World War II era. American fighting men have carried the M16 in...
In the latter half of the Cold War, there was a longstanding debate whether the Soviet-made AK-47 was superior to the American-made M16. There...
Introduced just prior to America’s involvement in the Vietnam War, the M16 was quite different from any weapon in use at the time. It...
When the M16A2 was adopted in the 1980s, it could be seen as a rushed product. While the U.S. military needed a new rifle...
The Soviet-designed AK-47 and the American-built AR-15/M16 are arguably the most iconic firearms in the modern world. Even people who don’t actually “know guns”...
Though the M16 rifle had a rocky start, it addressed a crucial need in the United States military: a fully automatic rifle that was...