The M16A4 served as the primary service rifle for the US Marine Corps from 1997 until 2015. -Essentially an M16A2 with a flat ...

An Army captain's critique of the service’s new XM7 rifle has experts and soldiers split on the issue of magazine capacity.

One of these three prototypes could be the Army's replacement for the M4/M16 among close combat forces. (Jacqueline Belker) WASHINGTON — Replacements for the M4 carbine, the M16 and the M249 ...

The Army has officially fielded its brand-new Next Generation Squad Weapon rifles to its first unit, bringing an end to the service's decades-long effort to replace its M4 and M16 family of ...

conducted the Army's new M16 rifle and M4 carbine qualification on Fort Sill, Jan. 23, 2020. The new course has been designed to replace the Cold War-era marksmanship qualification course ...

The Army used it in far smaller quantities, preferring the M4 carbine, but the the Marines held onto the M16A4 and now use a mixture of M4s and M16A4s. The M16 series of weapons has been in ...

Army researchers are testing half a dozen ammunition variants for a new prototype assault rifle that fires a larger round in order to introduce a possible M16/M4 replacement by 2020, according to ...

When the Army ordered its now standard M4 carbine in 1993 from firearms maker Colt, it saw the rifle as a lighter, more agile alternative to the Vietnam era M16 with similar punch at short range.

Later, when the M16 hit Vietnam, troops were wrongly told the weapon didn’t need to be cleaned so cleaning kits weren’t issued. Additionally, the Army used the wrong propellant in the 5.56 ...

U.S. lawmakers recently questioned Army and Marine Corps leaders on small-arms and why the two services buy completely different bullets for the M16A4 rifles and M4 carbines. "You guys are using ...

The widespread issue of the M16 rifle to troops in Vietnam, beginning in the mid-1960s, was fraught with problems. As reports of M16s failing in combat began to filter in, the U.S. Army scrambled ...

A total of 123 trainees in the National Service Training Programme (PLKN) 3.0 Series 2/2025 were seen to be excited with the ...