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Re:At 30, Game Boys live on in unexpected ways by taude on Sunday April 21, 2019 @10:27AM (#19712191)
I just watched that 10 part documentary on Netflix about the Vietnam war. They referenced several times how our M-16s were inferior to the AK's that were being supplied to the Vietcong. And that the M16s would jam and were unreliable...
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Re:At 30, Game Boys live on in unexpected ways by tyingq on Sunday April 21, 2019 @10:35AM (#19712222)
I used an M16A1 extensively in the 80s without issues. Not sure when they fixed things. Some of my peers had the M16A2, but most didn't.
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Re:At 30, Game Boys live on in unexpected ways by mruts on Sunday April 21, 2019 @10:34AM (#19712218)
Those are M16A1’s. M16A4’s are the current model, though if I remember correctly they are being phased out in favor of the M4.
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Re:At 30, Game Boys live on in unexpected ways by captainredbeard on Sunday April 21, 2019 @10:33AM (#19712214)
Most of the reliability issues had to do with ammo
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Re:At 30, Game Boys live on in unexpected ways by huffmsa on Sunday April 21, 2019 @10:45AM (#19712265)
Yeah it was ball powder that caused most of the fouling. He gun was designed for IMR.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1981/06/m-16-a-...

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