It's a sweet ass fricking gun, the M16A1 itself was a culmination of some extremely genius minds contributing some extremely genius ideas. Melvin Johnson, Eugene Stoner, Bob Fremont, Jim Sullivan, to name just some, and more brilliant people get involved as time goes.
If I were to criticize it, it would be that today, the M4A1 and M16A4 have a stupid dead weight barrel profile which could be replaced with just about any other style, which would offer some improvement. Oh yeah, and the three round burst on the M16A4 is pretty awful, auto or bust.
Arguably, yes.
[...] >no hold open >no bolt release >can't reach safety with thumb >no spring-loaded dust cover for ejection port >can't mount an optic on the dustcover because lmao wobble, gotta put on a bracket that hangs over the receiver >optionally a railed dogleg cover which gets loose anyway with time
It ain't a bad rifle, but it ain't the best, some aspects of it has aged a lot by now.
It's a sweet ass fricking gun, the M16A1 itself was a culmination of some extremely genius minds contributing some extremely genius ideas. Melvin Johnson, Eugene Stoner, Bob Fremont, Jim Sullivan, to name just some, and more brilliant people get involved as time goes.
If I were to criticize it, it would be that today, the M4A1 and M16A4 have a stupid dead weight barrel profile which could be replaced with just about any other style, which would offer some improvement. Oh yeah, and the three round burst on the M16A4 is pretty awful, auto or bust.
Arguably, yes.
wrong.
>no hold open >no bolt release >can't reach safety with thumb >no spring-loaded dust cover for ejection port >can't mount an optic on the dustcover because lmao wobble, gotta put on a bracket that hangs over the receiver >optionally a railed dogleg cover which gets loose anyway with time
It ain't a bad rifle, but it ain't the best, some aspects of it has aged a lot by now.
Depends on how you look at it.
The idea to omit chrome and cleaning kits, and to recycle powder which was actually unsuitable, could either have been Army Ordnance's idea, or McNamara's, the patron saint of bean counters. Either way, the rifle was fricked with.
>overgassed >beats up locking lugs >carrier tilt >all for a meme piston which confers precious few practical benefits
Jamming a short-stroke piston into an AR15 makes it an inbreed between its close relative, the AR18. If you want a piston gun with radial locking lugs, what you're looking for is some sort of AR18 derivative such as the SCAR, not this homosexualry.
>overgassed >beats up locking lugs >carrier tilt
Those are all non-issues or things that got fixed
Direct Impingement was a bad decision, there’s a reason why no other gun outside of the AR15 uses it and everyone nowadays are getting the 426
>Those are all non-issues or things that got fixed
lmao no. You can't get around the carrier tilt without changing the action entirely by adding guiderods or making it long-stroke, and the locking lugs are inherently weaker because you don't have gas pushing onto the bolt from the other side to make up for the pressure coming back, they're just more stressed and this can't be avoided without making them larger (ergo not fitting).
Overgassing could be fixed with a properly adjustable gasblock, but you don't get one, so you either get the gun kicking more than it needs to for no reason, or suppressed mode, which won't cycle without a suppressor.
>there’s a reason why no other gun outside of the AR15 >"AR15 clones don't count"
Cope. Piston ARs are for gullible morons.
you M4 gays wouldn't know rugged superiority if it smacked you in the face. If you had one choice of gun between M4 and AK100 series while going into the most inhospitable environment, We all know that you are taking the AK100
I want an A1.5 rear sight. I wish magpul didnt drop their original MOE line, it had nicer lines and angles for holding I think. The new line of parts are too busy. Blue is lovely tho yeah
>while going into the most inhospitable environment
Depends on exactly how the environment is inhospitable! If it's a frozen wasteland, I'll take the AK for sure. If it's a jungle, I'll take the AR. Or if it's a desert, they both excel.
this is without doubt the gayest shit I've ever seen I hate CoDgay guns so much. I guarantee that piece of shit weighs like a pound more with all those bullshit rails all over it that are barely even being used. It doesn't even necessarily have to have wood furniture but I hate these gay escape from tarkov cawadoody larper8r builds so much.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>people who make a rifle more usable with optics, flashlights, lasers, QD slings, and anything else they might want or need are larpers
you're a larper. You just won't admit it. You think having a buck naked AK makes you some kind of sovl manly man with a bare bones rifle and in reality you're just a contrarian homosexual
2 years ago
Anonymous
>implying you can't put literally anything you need on a bare bones rifle without raping the shit out of it
Look at the bottom rifle on OPs pic. Crazy how he managed to put an optic on it without a flat top upper, light/laser without a quadrail, and a sling without special QD mounts. Let me guess, you NEED more???
Even your example is such a shit design they didnt even try to mount an optic to it. At least its not a shit ton heavy rails everywhere with big optics model
I don't even personally like M16 pattern rifles but it would be stupid to say they're not one of best rifle designs made.
Reliable, strong, relatively cheap.
Western operators use ARs since they train with US guys who use ARs, and a SHARED platform is more important than any differences between platforms could ever be. Russian operators, who do get to choose their own gear, mostly run heavily modified AKs. Because they train with people who use AKs and the shared platform is more important than any advantages that could be had by switching.
For that rifle in particular, an A1 would be more accurate. You can tell my looking at the rear iron sight. An A1 looks like that one, while an A2 has a horizontal drum that raises/lowers the rear sight for on the fly adjustment.
Not sure what's happening with the muzzle device though, doesn't look like an A1 nor A2.
It had a bumpy start in Vietnam but it managed to stay relevant over the years. Still one of the self-loading rifles with the most accuracy potential and softer recoil.
I'd like to try an AR-18 derivative to see how it performs compared to the AR-15.
>What do you think about America's Rifle and its lineage?
Pleasant to shoot, inherently accurate, and reliable. I don't really know what more you could want from a rifle. I was skeptical of Stoner's "internal piston" DI bullshit, but it turns out it just works. Yeah it's dirtier than most actions, but the carbon buildup doesn't effect the operation of the gun in any meaningful way unless you go literally 10s of thousands of rounds between basic cleaning.
I also think it's at its best with a 20 inch barrel. I don't care if "16 is the same as 20" or "14.5 is the same as 20" or whatever. 5.56/.223 was designed around a 20 inch barrel and anything less is stupid unless you have a very specific reason. (constantly in and out of vehicles, etc.)
As for which 20" variant is the best, I couldn't fricking care less. I do have to say I'm getting tired of seeing the A1 in clone circles. I wish people would do more esoteric builds honestly.
I don't know if there was ever a reason for that, but 20rd mags stuck around in service well into the 80s, when that setup was more common, so could just be by chance. Possibly some people preferred a slightly lighter gun in their hands, but it really would be very modest reduction, potentially something about getting down lower on the ground, but again it seems like it wouldn't make all that much practical difference.
Here's a pic of an M16A1 with the 'Scarface' grenade launcher setup and a 30rd magazine. I find it looks more aesthetic with 30rd mags.
I find slickside M16s look nice with 30rd mags too.
Wonder what he's thinking
About the next meal, or about blasting Cuban Commies, as that photo is from the US Intervention in Grenada.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>US Intervention in Grenada
qrd pls?
2 years ago
Anonymous
>Cuba helps stage a violent communist coup in Grenada >some American citizens are studying medicine there or something and get taken hostage >US intervenes >aside from some early embarrassment with Navy SEALs, the operation goes pretty smoothly and the Domino Does Not Fall >Cuban fighters wasted, coup leaders jailed for life >some kind of stupid b***hing from parts of the international community about sovereignty >actual Grenadans who live on Grenada and would have been under the Communist bootheel thought it was pretty cool
When it comes to US interventionism, Grenada is probably the time it went the best.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Nice. >Navy SEALs
Was Chris Kyle there to punch Jesse Ventura?
2 years ago
Anonymous
Imagine what absolute speed demons these motherfrickers must have been like in the days before plates and gear bloat.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>bullets start flying >GOTTA GO FAST
2 years ago
Anonymous
Das rite
2 years ago
Anonymous
yeah now imagine them getting shot in the lung and dying because they didn't have body armor you stupid child
2 years ago
Anonymous
okay fatass
2 years ago
Anonymous
>light rifles >light gear >grunts actually in shape
Must have moved very smoothly. Most grunts anyway, some poor fricks still had to carry the M47
2 years ago
Anonymous
Central/South America shenanigans were peak American Military aesthetics
I wish we went down south again
2 years ago
Anonymous
Soon, just google "Nicaragua invites Russian troops "
What’s the optimal way to go about putting one of this together right now?
I don’t mind overpaying for the gun but frick me im not paying 1k+ for a dinky smoke launcher.
Pencil barrels won’t make it look funny, right?
>the long barrel >the perfectly proportional stock and carry handle >the smooth, closed-up receiver set
I will never understand how someone can find the fricking AK more aesthetic than an M16 variant.
Howdy fellow girthchads I got an aero enhanced handguard like this one and finally bought a streamlight HLX but I don't know how I should mount it. The arisaka offset mount doesn't have enough clearance because this handguard is too thicc. Would appreciate some recommendations.
M16A2 should have been something akin to this. >keep A1 rear sight >keep A1 fire controls (no burst) >keep A1 forward assist plunger >keep A1 profile or develop a profile which actually holds heat better >add A2 deflector, delta ring, and handguard
Stoner was a fricking moron who fricked up everything he worked on. >AR7 >broken >AR15 >broken >Stoner 63 >broken >multiple vehicle autocannons and autoloaders >broken
The ONLY design that wasn't a flaming bag full of shit was the AR18.
Wrong. >AR10 >failed military testing so hard it nearly maimed people TWICE
The only thing the AR15 excels at is being light and having 9001 different attachments so larpers can blow several thousand dollars so they can pretend that they're ZOG death squads, while ignoring that said death squads get rekt by shitskins in open combat.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>W-wrong
cope
2 years ago
Anonymous
>easily researched >dosen't do so
Many such cases!
2 years ago
Anonymous
>easily researched >dosen't do so
Many such cases!
lol what a moronic nogunz
2 years ago
Anonymous
>noguns
You're the moron concript that would get gunned down in Veitnam trying to unjam the shitstick that is the M16.
>drops in mud >jams
lol, lmao
>80 years of combat proves otherwise
lol,lamo
2 years ago
Anonymous
The AR10 trialed by the military was an early prototype that had an experimental composite barrel that was never used again since one blew up.
You can tell just how gay someone is by the fact that they move their incorrect safety selector to "auto" despite it being a semi lower, just to take an insta tier photo to post on /k/.
The Stoner 63 had one good thing going, and that was the belt-fed configurations, all the other ones were superfluous. Set up like a belt-fed light machinegun, the recoil was like fricking nothing at all, and that's with ammo at half the weight of 7.62mm NATO, so you can carry lots of it. The Navy SEALs really liked the Stoner 63 and held on to it well after everyone else abandoned it, they never had a belt-fed 5.56mm NATO machinegun before and they thought it was the coolest fricking thing in the world.
The way the Stoner 63 is put together kind of makes not perfect though, all the other configs are superfluous, and it's just really maintenance heavy. I think if Stoner and Sullivan had focused on making it as a belt-fed gun exclusively, it would have been better, and it would have probably stuck around. As it is, the M249 series that replaced it basically did its job better, and served pretty well for 30 years, hopefully something like the KAC LAMG or outright brand new M249s gets to replace the old clapped out M249s in the future.
The Block II is, in my opinion, the pinnacle of the AR-15's capability as a fighting rifle >THICC SOCOM profile barrel provides excellent accuracy and durability, completely nullifies recoil >The best quad rail ever made >the best stock ever made >entire suite of high quality accessories remain relevant and highly desirable to this day due to their legendary effectiveness >has been the go to rifle for SOF to stack bodies with for a over a decade >very successful adoption process identified needs of SOF operators and met them, fulfilled all goals and even outlived projected service life by nearly a decade now >before fielding the block II, it was considered a block III might see service as early as 2008, however here we are in 2022 and the block II remains relevant to this day
The AR-15 (and its military derivatives) is easily among the best weapons one could get.
I have two of them and they are both excellent.
I have an AK and a CETME but if the balloon went up today, its my 20" AR that I'm throwing in the truck.
best service rifle in the world
It's great
The AK74 has a slight edge
But both are great guns, i do with America had invented the AK and 5.45x39 though
absolute dumb Black person moment
Why?
The 74 has less recoil than the AR and a lighter cartridge
because it's shit and inferior to 5.56, just like the ak is inferior to the ar
It isn’t though, it’s lighter and has better ballistics out of short barrels
you've already said that
By minute margins.
Armor is good, but grunts these days are weighed down with tons of stupid bullshit which they generally wouldn't really need.
>AK74
In what way? M4 has been successfully modernized several times while the AK74 is stuck in the past and AK-12 is a failure.
Well yeah but that’s because russia is a poor shithole
wrong for the reasons
points out
It's a sweet ass fricking gun, the M16A1 itself was a culmination of some extremely genius minds contributing some extremely genius ideas. Melvin Johnson, Eugene Stoner, Bob Fremont, Jim Sullivan, to name just some, and more brilliant people get involved as time goes.
If I were to criticize it, it would be that today, the M4A1 and M16A4 have a stupid dead weight barrel profile which could be replaced with just about any other style, which would offer some improvement. Oh yeah, and the three round burst on the M16A4 is pretty awful, auto or bust.
Arguably, yes.
>no hold open
>no bolt release
>can't reach safety with thumb
>no spring-loaded dust cover for ejection port
>can't mount an optic on the dustcover because lmao wobble, gotta put on a bracket that hangs over the receiver
>optionally a railed dogleg cover which gets loose anyway with time
It ain't a bad rifle, but it ain't the best, some aspects of it has aged a lot by now.
Is it true the Military Industrial Complex fricked around with the M16 on purpose because it was going to replace the M14, the MIC's baby?
Depends on how you look at it.
The idea to omit chrome and cleaning kits, and to recycle powder which was actually unsuitable, could either have been Army Ordnance's idea, or McNamara's, the patron saint of bean counters. Either way, the rifle was fricked with.
>and more brilliant people get involved as time goes
True, in special HK who fixed it
Yes, they told the soldiers the rifle was self cleaning and also the wrong powder
>overgassed
>beats up locking lugs
>carrier tilt
>all for a meme piston which confers precious few practical benefits
Jamming a short-stroke piston into an AR15 makes it an inbreed between its close relative, the AR18. If you want a piston gun with radial locking lugs, what you're looking for is some sort of AR18 derivative such as the SCAR, not this homosexualry.
>overgassed
>beats up locking lugs
>carrier tilt
Those are all non-issues or things that got fixed
Direct Impingement was a bad decision, there’s a reason why no other gun outside of the AR15 uses it and everyone nowadays are getting the 426
>Those are all non-issues or things that got fixed
lmao no. You can't get around the carrier tilt without changing the action entirely by adding guiderods or making it long-stroke, and the locking lugs are inherently weaker because you don't have gas pushing onto the bolt from the other side to make up for the pressure coming back, they're just more stressed and this can't be avoided without making them larger (ergo not fitting).
Overgassing could be fixed with a properly adjustable gasblock, but you don't get one, so you either get the gun kicking more than it needs to for no reason, or suppressed mode, which won't cycle without a suppressor.
>there’s a reason why no other gun outside of the AR15
>"AR15 clones don't count"
Cope. Piston ARs are for gullible morons.
Objectively speaking, one of the best couple rifle designs ever made, maybe the best. But not one that particularly interests me.
wrong.
>insecure post
He said "one of" not "the objective best ever"
I think it has a good aesthetic and weight. I wish A1 sights were more common than removable uppers
you M4 gays wouldn't know rugged superiority if it smacked you in the face. If you had one choice of gun between M4 and AK100 series while going into the most inhospitable environment, We all know that you are taking the AK100
>comes into a thread
>makes it all about them
If 5.45 yes
If 7.62 i'm taking the AR
>punctuates his insecurity
I never said M4, by the way. Keep losing.
Now that's pretty
I want an A1.5 rear sight. I wish magpul didnt drop their original MOE line, it had nicer lines and angles for holding I think. The new line of parts are too busy. Blue is lovely tho yeah
ugly as shit
Are you a cobra trooper from GI Joe what is up with that fricking color scheme
My dad builds guns like you. When he's dead I'll have to unfrick them all.
Damn, I'm sorry your dad is tasteless. Most boomers are though, it's just in their nature.
If I was your dad I wouldn't leave an ungrateful shit like you squat, boy.
ok boomer
>while going into the most inhospitable environment
Depends on exactly how the environment is inhospitable! If it's a frozen wasteland, I'll take the AK for sure. If it's a jungle, I'll take the AR. Or if it's a desert, they both excel.
>AK that has effectively become an M4 with worse ergonomics and gigantic receiver gaps
ok
this is without doubt the gayest shit I've ever seen I hate CoDgay guns so much. I guarantee that piece of shit weighs like a pound more with all those bullshit rails all over it that are barely even being used. It doesn't even necessarily have to have wood furniture but I hate these gay escape from tarkov cawadoody larper8r builds so much.
>people who make a rifle more usable with optics, flashlights, lasers, QD slings, and anything else they might want or need are larpers
you're a larper. You just won't admit it. You think having a buck naked AK makes you some kind of sovl manly man with a bare bones rifle and in reality you're just a contrarian homosexual
>implying you can't put literally anything you need on a bare bones rifle without raping the shit out of it
Look at the bottom rifle on OPs pic. Crazy how he managed to put an optic on it without a flat top upper, light/laser without a quadrail, and a sling without special QD mounts. Let me guess, you NEED more???
>posts 74
>starts talking about the 100 series
0/10 bait
100 series is based on the 74M so they're both pretty much the same in the big picture
>inhospitable environment
I think I'll take the gun which at least puts the effort into keeping out dirt.
Nah, I'm taking the M4.
Shit platform.
>drops in mud
>jams
lol, lmao
Even your example is such a shit design they didnt even try to mount an optic to it. At least its not a shit ton heavy rails everywhere with big optics model
Do not confuse russia being such a poor shithole that they can’t afford optics with the AK not being able to handle optics
It's either dovetail or not holding zero until the next cleaning, i think i'll pass
I don't even personally like M16 pattern rifles but it would be stupid to say they're not one of best rifle designs made.
Reliable, strong, relatively cheap.
She ages gracefully.
I love her.
every top Operator that gets a choice chooses AR, and don't know of any that don't choose M4.
Western operators use ARs since they train with US guys who use ARs, and a SHARED platform is more important than any differences between platforms could ever be. Russian operators, who do get to choose their own gear, mostly run heavily modified AKs. Because they train with people who use AKs and the shared platform is more important than any advantages that could be had by switching.
>"only 50,000 dollars at auction"
its a maglite tied and taped and a gen 1 red dot
big whoop
>frick shills
That gun belongs to Larry Vickers.
Yeah I know. When I said shill I was referring to where you got the screen cap from, fan boy.
You don't even know what the word shill means.
>fan boy
lol okay poopy head.
>doesnt acknowledge the source of the picture
You know your place.
u mad
See
Get proven wrong, silly shill.
I still rewatch that video he did with Ian talking about it sometimes.
If im trying to replicate the top rifle, what would be more proper.
A1 or a2?
For that rifle in particular, an A1 would be more accurate. You can tell my looking at the rear iron sight. An A1 looks like that one, while an A2 has a horizontal drum that raises/lowers the rear sight for on the fly adjustment.
Not sure what's happening with the muzzle device though, doesn't look like an A1 nor A2.
M16a2’s are pure sexual tyrannosaurus’.
Not a day goes by where I don’t think of getting one.
>cue seething from a poopy head
It had a bumpy start in Vietnam but it managed to stay relevant over the years. Still one of the self-loading rifles with the most accuracy potential and softer recoil.
I'd like to try an AR-18 derivative to see how it performs compared to the AR-15.
I am so tired of vidya have three round burst M16s. Black Ops 1 cucked us hard with having it full auto in the story mode but 3 round burst online.
>seething poopy head
some modernized aks are cool
That's globohomo's rifle. Pic related is America's rifle
>some high cap knock off of the Garand
No. You kids with your assault rifles
leave
You don't own neither
I own both, gayboi
So are you a American homosexual or a Global American
super cool fake iron sights and ebay laser, homosexual
Cope, post rifle noguns
You first motherfricker
I posted 2 already moron
Anything else I can do for you?
>wet
>was raining outside
Didn't you post this on PrepHole?
Idk maybe, I only have like 2 pics of each of my guns
>no timestamp
sure
>"AR15 is globohomo"
>"thats what I own"
"co-op"
This is a sad string of dialogue options you chose. Post the Garand and we'll talk
>What do you think about America's Rifle and its lineage?
Pleasant to shoot, inherently accurate, and reliable. I don't really know what more you could want from a rifle. I was skeptical of Stoner's "internal piston" DI bullshit, but it turns out it just works. Yeah it's dirtier than most actions, but the carbon buildup doesn't effect the operation of the gun in any meaningful way unless you go literally 10s of thousands of rounds between basic cleaning.
I also think it's at its best with a 20 inch barrel. I don't care if "16 is the same as 20" or "14.5 is the same as 20" or whatever. 5.56/.223 was designed around a 20 inch barrel and anything less is stupid unless you have a very specific reason. (constantly in and out of vehicles, etc.)
As for which 20" variant is the best, I couldn't fricking care less. I do have to say I'm getting tired of seeing the A1 in clone circles. I wish people would do more esoteric builds honestly.
Anyway yeah luv me AR simple as.
Does the top one still take 30 round mags?
Why wouldn't it?
I rarely ever see them with 30 round mags. Always that little.. 20 round mag? I admit that little mag is aesthetic.
I don't know if there was ever a reason for that, but 20rd mags stuck around in service well into the 80s, when that setup was more common, so could just be by chance. Possibly some people preferred a slightly lighter gun in their hands, but it really would be very modest reduction, potentially something about getting down lower on the ground, but again it seems like it wouldn't make all that much practical difference.
Here's a pic of an M16A1 with the 'Scarface' grenade launcher setup and a 30rd magazine. I find it looks more aesthetic with 30rd mags.
grenade launcher m16s look better with 30r
slick m16 look best with 20r
I find slickside M16s look nice with 30rd mags too.
About the next meal, or about blasting Cuban Commies, as that photo is from the US Intervention in Grenada.
>US Intervention in Grenada
qrd pls?
>Cuba helps stage a violent communist coup in Grenada
>some American citizens are studying medicine there or something and get taken hostage
>US intervenes
>aside from some early embarrassment with Navy SEALs, the operation goes pretty smoothly and the Domino Does Not Fall
>Cuban fighters wasted, coup leaders jailed for life
>some kind of stupid b***hing from parts of the international community about sovereignty
>actual Grenadans who live on Grenada and would have been under the Communist bootheel thought it was pretty cool
When it comes to US interventionism, Grenada is probably the time it went the best.
Nice.
>Navy SEALs
Was Chris Kyle there to punch Jesse Ventura?
Imagine what absolute speed demons these motherfrickers must have been like in the days before plates and gear bloat.
>bullets start flying
>GOTTA GO FAST
Das rite
yeah now imagine them getting shot in the lung and dying because they didn't have body armor you stupid child
okay fatass
>light rifles
>light gear
>grunts actually in shape
Must have moved very smoothly. Most grunts anyway, some poor fricks still had to carry the M47
Central/South America shenanigans were peak American Military aesthetics
I wish we went down south again
Soon, just google "Nicaragua invites Russian troops "
Venezuela too
> I don't know if there was ever a reason for that, but 20rd mags stuck around in service well into the 80s
Early 30 rounders weren’t reliable
Based, especially if A1
Wonder what he's thinking
I just love that barrel
What’s the optimal way to go about putting one of this together right now?
I don’t mind overpaying for the gun but frick me im not paying 1k+ for a dinky smoke launcher.
Pencil barrels won’t make it look funny, right?
>the long barrel
>the perfectly proportional stock and carry handle
>the smooth, closed-up receiver set
I will never understand how someone can find the fricking AK more aesthetic than an M16 variant.
I am sexually attracted to 5.45x39 plum mags
I have a cap just like that.
Howdy fellow girthchads I got an aero enhanced handguard like this one and finally bought a streamlight HLX but I don't know how I should mount it. The arisaka offset mount doesn't have enough clearance because this handguard is too thicc. Would appreciate some recommendations.
Shut the frick up.
have a nice day
m16a2 best battle implement ever devised by man
The A2 was trash, even Stoner knew it
shut your fricking mouth
WORSE BARREL
WORSE SIGHTS
WORSE TRIGGER
USELESS BURST
M16A2 should have been something akin to this.
>keep A1 rear sight
>keep A1 fire controls (no burst)
>keep A1 forward assist plunger
>keep A1 profile or develop a profile which actually holds heat better
>add A2 deflector, delta ring, and handguard
Yeah basicslly what Stoner said
Stoner was a fricking moron who fricked up everything he worked on.
>AR7
>broken
>AR15
>broken
>Stoner 63
>broken
>multiple vehicle autocannons and autoloaders
>broken
The ONLY design that wasn't a flaming bag full of shit was the AR18.
Cringe and untrue.
Wrong.
>AR10
>failed military testing so hard it nearly maimed people TWICE
The only thing the AR15 excels at is being light and having 9001 different attachments so larpers can blow several thousand dollars so they can pretend that they're ZOG death squads, while ignoring that said death squads get rekt by shitskins in open combat.
>W-wrong
cope
>easily researched
>dosen't do so
Many such cases!
lol what a moronic nogunz
>noguns
You're the moron concript that would get gunned down in Veitnam trying to unjam the shitstick that is the M16.
>80 years of combat proves otherwise
lol,lamo
The AR10 trialed by the military was an early prototype that had an experimental composite barrel that was never used again since one blew up.
I like AR10s
How about the length of pull and pistol grip?
So literally a C7
You can tell just how gay someone is by the fact that they move their incorrect safety selector to "auto" despite it being a semi lower, just to take an insta tier photo to post on /k/.
I wish the Stoner 63 had become as popular
The Stoner 63 had one good thing going, and that was the belt-fed configurations, all the other ones were superfluous. Set up like a belt-fed light machinegun, the recoil was like fricking nothing at all, and that's with ammo at half the weight of 7.62mm NATO, so you can carry lots of it. The Navy SEALs really liked the Stoner 63 and held on to it well after everyone else abandoned it, they never had a belt-fed 5.56mm NATO machinegun before and they thought it was the coolest fricking thing in the world.
The way the Stoner 63 is put together kind of makes not perfect though, all the other configs are superfluous, and it's just really maintenance heavy. I think if Stoner and Sullivan had focused on making it as a belt-fed gun exclusively, it would have been better, and it would have probably stuck around. As it is, the M249 series that replaced it basically did its job better, and served pretty well for 30 years, hopefully something like the KAC LAMG or outright brand new M249s gets to replace the old clapped out M249s in the future.
As it is though, the Stoner 63 was cool as frick.
I used the shit out of it in Black Ops
What is the best one of the family in your opinion, anons?
The Block II is, in my opinion, the pinnacle of the AR-15's capability as a fighting rifle
>THICC SOCOM profile barrel provides excellent accuracy and durability, completely nullifies recoil
>The best quad rail ever made
>the best stock ever made
>entire suite of high quality accessories remain relevant and highly desirable to this day due to their legendary effectiveness
>has been the go to rifle for SOF to stack bodies with for a over a decade
>very successful adoption process identified needs of SOF operators and met them, fulfilled all goals and even outlived projected service life by nearly a decade now
>before fielding the block II, it was considered a block III might see service as early as 2008, however here we are in 2022 and the block II remains relevant to this day
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The AR-15 (and its military derivatives) is easily among the best weapons one could get.
I have two of them and they are both excellent.
I have an AK and a CETME but if the balloon went up today, its my 20" AR that I'm throwing in the truck.