Armalite designed and entered the AR-10, which was chambered in 7.62mm NATO, late into the 1956 U.S. firearm company Armalite, where its chief designers were the now-famous Eugene Stoner and L. The conceptual rifle that would eventually become the M-16 began its journey as the AR-10 developed by the U.S. military to demand a new, selective fire rifle using an intermediate cartridge. American forces with their M-14s could not match the sustained automatic fire from Communist troops armed with AK-47s, prompting many in the U.S. troops encountered North Vietnamese forces using AK-47s in the jungles of Southeast Asia. The disadvantages of the M-14 became evident when U.S. adopted in 1959, was essentially a modernization of the WWII-era M1 Garand rifle updated to fire the same full-sized NATO round from a box magazine with the option of fully-automatic fire. The Springfield M-14 rifle, which the U.S. The British Army adopted the Fabrique Nationale Fusil Automatique Leger (FN FAL) and the West Germans the Heckler and Koch G3 (HK G3), both which were selective fire battle rifles chambered in the 7.62mm NATO round. Small arms designers in Western nations continued to rely on the full-sized rifle cartridge, particularly the 7.62x51mm NATO round, which was nearly uncontrollable when fired in other fully automatic infantry rifles then fielded. The AK-47 fired the 7.62x39mm intermediate round and provided the Soviet soldier in the early years of the Cold War the ability to lay down overwhelming fire unlike anything then available to U.S. Shortly after the war, the Soviet Avtomát Kaláshnikova-47 (AK-47) emerged as the spiritual successor to the German StG-44. Intermediate cartridges, while less powerful than full-sized rifle ammunition, provided superior performance to the pistol cartridges used by submachine guns then in widespread use among all the WWII belligerents. The world’s first viable assault rifle was the German Sturmgewehr-44 (StG-44), which was introduced toward the end of World War II and provided selective fire of an intermediate cartridge (7.92x33mm Kurz-German for “short”) from a box magazine. forces and other international customers well into the future. With continuing modernization, it is likely that some variant of the M-16 will continue serving U.S. Most modern military rifles since the introduction of the M-16 share at least some characteristics with the now-ubiquitous weapon system. Modern variants of the original M-16 rifle serve as a standard issued firearm across all services of the Department of Defense. Despite some initial reliability issues, evolutions of the design produced a highly- capable firearm. When the M-16 was first introduced, it revolutionized firearm design with its use of composite materials, intermediate caliber ammunition, and space-age appearance. Approximately eight million M-16-pattern rifles have been produced, with the rifle’s intermediate caliber helping make it one of the most popular weapons in today’s defense and civilian marketplaces. The M-16 rifle, first officially adopted into the American military’s inventory in 1964 and chambered for 5.56x45mm NATO ammunition, has served as the basic assault rifle of the United States for well over half a century. Note: When you embed the widget in your site, it will match your site's styles (CSS).The “Mattel Gun” – History of the Venerable M-16 Rifle
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