The M14 rifle, adopted in 1957 to replace the M1 Garand and BAR, faced significant criticism from US infantry despite aiming ...

Demonstrating their adaptability, the insurgents exploited Afghanistan’s sprawling valleys and distant mountainsides to seek engagements beyond the M16’s and M4’s effective ranges.

The weapon replacing the M16, the M4, is a smaller ... In the early part of the war, Marine grunts hefted the M14, a grandson of sorts of the M1 Garand that was used in World War II and Korea.

It has the best of the M4 and the M14 in a single system ... the U.S. Army will regain some of the power lost when the M14 was replaced by the M16. However, the XM5 has its critics too.

The vaunted DMR bridges the gap between the M4 and dedicated sniping weapon ... 100 yards – a full inch larger than the M16's standards. While the M14's 7.62mm round is great for this, the ...

When the Army ordered its now standard M4 carbine in 1993 from firearms ... the 7.62 mm [M14 rifle] to the 5.56 mm [M16].” Cancian, who fired both the M14 and M16 in his Marine Corps career ...

Rugged, simple and accurate, the M4 carbine is the standard ... later designed the M16, could carry twice as much ammunition as a soldier carrying the M14. Demographic trends also meant that ...

But the M14 was soon discarded when ... Time to invest The aging M16/M4 platform is nearing the end of its life cycle, Bohannon said. "Right now the [M16/M4] platform we have is a workhorse ...

Mark W. Stroud/Released) Marine grunts are applauding their new commandant's decision to arm the service's infantrymen with the M4 carbine in place of the iconic M16 rifle after years of close ...

The Army is issuing Soldiers a new small arms 5.56 ammunition magazine designed expressly for the M4/M4A1 carbine and M16 family of weapons. The 2nd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment from Joint Base ...