Also the early M16s issued in Nam still had bugs to be worked out. Jams were common. But mostly it was the choice of ammo that was the handicap. The early jacketed 5.62 nato round didn't have enough snot to reliably put down the gooks...It just didn't do enough terminal damage.Blue Frost wrote: ↑February 26th, 2020, 2:56 pm The failure myth comes from a select few that the Army tried to make fail because they where stuck on the Mini14.
They where told by Stoner before they used it what they did wrong with the wrong ammo.
It's funny how all the Arabs started throwing their AKs down to get an AR, you know the people in a war doing real fighting, and not on the internet.
The round now is much improved but I still think the weapon needs a hotter cartridge. I always thought a better choice for an all around combat round would be a .243 win. It's just a necked down .308 so standardizing the brass would be easy. Not to mention that a .243 win will reliably stop any human sized target and blow right through most kevlar body armor at just about any range.