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

The AK-47 is several pounds heavier than the M16. The Soviet 7.62 mm M43 cartridge used in the AK-47 is much smaller and less powerful than the 7.62 mm NATO cartridge used in our M14 rifle.

The M16's adaptability and performance have made ... the rifle’s direct impingement operating system is very reliable. Lastly, the 5.56 cartridge is quite lethal but is also lightweight, which ...

Actually, both back then and now, the M16 (like most AR-15s) fires the relatively-underpowered 5.56 mm cartridge. It has very little kick. And while obviously the 5.56 can be lethal ...

Or as the military referred to it as, the 5.56×45 — based on the .222 Remington. The U.S. Military adopted the 5.56×45 cartridge, along with Armalite’s M16 rifle in 1963, laying the groundwork for the ...

Eugene Stoner’s original battle rifle design, which would become the M16, was initially chambered for the 7.62X51 NATO cartridge, the military version of the .308 Win. That AR10 design has been around ...

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.