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Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda
wasn't there stories during the first gulf war of soldiers dropping their M16's and picking up AK-47's from fallen enemies because the M16's were so unreliable? Colt had to basically redesign the entire weapon after finding out that they didn't like desert conditions so much
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Thats more of an urban legend that continued from the Vietnam war days when the M-16 was first deployed and they found that it continually mis fed rounds, jammed and fell apart, so troops picked up the reliable AK-47's.
The other thing that was terribly wrong is that in close action battles the AK-47 could be used as an effective weapon for crushing skulls with the rifle butt, or using the bayonet.
With the early M-16, using a butt stike would shatter the springs leaving the weapon as less the useless, and attaching a bayonet and striking would damage the barrel.