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Iraqis prefer AK-47 over M-16 for performance in desert heat
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| 7/9/2010
| World Tribune
Posted on 07/11/2010 1:30:09 AM PDT by ErnstStavroBlofeld
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To: sonofstrangelove
Officials said the U.S. military has imposed restrictions on the use of the M-16 to the Iraq Army. They said the Iraqis were required to register each M-16 to ensure that they are not sold or given to Al Qaida or other insurgency groups. That explains everything.
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posted on
07/11/2010 3:16:40 AM PDT
by
nathanbedford
("Attack, repeat, attack!" Bull Halsey)
To: sonofstrangelove
I could help find a home for those unloved M-16s.......
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posted on
07/11/2010 3:20:31 AM PDT
by
Erik Latranyi
(Too many conservatives urge retreat when the war of politics doesn't go their way.)
To: sonofstrangelove
The AK-47 is a low maintenance relationship. The M-16 is a fussier mistress.
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posted on
07/11/2010 3:33:35 AM PDT
by
Lonesome in Massachussets
(The naked casuistry of the high priests of Warmism would make a Jesuit blush.)
To: sonofstrangelove
Iraqis prefer AK-47 over M-16 for performance in desert heat
"Do I really have to say it?"
'Series' for people who don't know what a TOILET is, expecting them to maintain the finicky M-16 in tip-top shape is a bit of a stretch. They'd have to clean heir weapon more than they clean themselves.
Will someone please buy 'the military' a clue.
I prefer the AK myself, it's like Superman, indestructible. (impervious to the elements)
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posted on
07/11/2010 4:40:05 AM PDT
by
Condor51
(SAT CONG!)
To: sonofstrangelove
So I hope we take them back then than have 10,000 fresh M-16’s out there.
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posted on
07/11/2010 4:55:11 AM PDT
by
valkyry1
To: sonofstrangelove
The AK is a good rifle in a lot of ways. Simple, easy to maintain, capable of being used even by the dimmest specimen of humanity. And it is durable.
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posted on
07/11/2010 4:56:54 AM PDT
by
GenXteacher
(He that hath no stomach for this fight, let him depart!)
To: sonofstrangelove
But officials acknowledged that the Iraqis have decided to maintain the AK-47 as the lead assault rifle. You're all missing it. The Iraqis believe that Obama will cut and run as soon as possible and there they'll be standing there among a thousand Muslim terrorist holding an American M-16.
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posted on
07/11/2010 5:04:29 AM PDT
by
libertylover
(The problem with Obama is not that his skin is too black, it's that his ideas are too RED.)
To: libertylover
“The AK 47 is the weapon of choice among our enemies and has a distinctive sound” Gunny Hightower
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posted on
07/11/2010 5:06:52 AM PDT
by
bert
(K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... The winds of war are freshening)
To: sonofstrangelove
Add to the above, the AK is FAR less expensive to purchase and maintain. The M16 might be a decent weapon, but it isn’t the “be-all, end-all”.
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posted on
07/11/2010 5:44:02 AM PDT
by
TheBattman
(They exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature...)
To: bert
That’s Gunny Highway. Just watched it last night.
Keep your powder dry.
To: sonofstrangelove
I am recalling the first complaints about the M16 from our boys in Viet Nam - that is when they started to chrome the chambers. Why dont we have an american version of the FN?
Accurate and mud proof.
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posted on
07/11/2010 6:01:47 AM PDT
by
kingcoal
To: DownInFlames
Me too. you would think I could remember for 12 hours...... bad sign
especially after seeing it many times
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posted on
07/11/2010 6:07:46 AM PDT
by
bert
(K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... The winds of war are freshening)
To: Condor51
...Exactly!...I just finished reading Rory Stewart’s “The Places in Between” about his walk across Afganistan...those tribal people are so backward they wipe their ass with their hand...the M-16 is not a rifle for mud people.
To: sonofstrangelove
The AK-47’s 7.62 round is better than the M-16’s 5.56 in the longer engagements of a desert environment shootout.
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posted on
07/11/2010 8:34:01 AM PDT
by
2001convSVT
("Hand out pocket Constitutions to everyone you can")
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To: kingcoal
Why dont we have an american version of the FN?1. Who wants to put the money in developing something they can't sell to the public.
2.We don't have an industrial infrastructure anymore.
To: Last Dakotan
Why dont we have an american version of the FN? We do in both inch and metric patterns:
DS Arms.
L
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posted on
07/11/2010 11:32:18 AM PDT
by
Lurker
(The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
To: DownInFlames; bert; libertylover
The AK 47 is the weapon of choice among our enemies and has a distinctive sound Gunny Hightower *****
Thats Gunny Highway. Just watched it last night.
Keep your powder dry.
*********************
That should be: This is the AK-47 assault rifle, the preferred weapon of your enemy; and it makes a distinctive sound when fired at you, so remember it.
You men do not impress me.
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posted on
07/11/2010 12:12:01 PM PDT
by
archy
(Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam)
To: kingcoal
I am recalling the first complaints about the M16 from our boys in Viet Nam - that is when they started to chrome the chambers. Why dont we have an american version of the FN? Accurate and mud proof.
Reasonably accurate for a service rifle, but heavy, almost 12 pounds loaded. And though reasonably reliable in mud, not as happy with sandyb conditions, as the Israeli troops who used the things from the 1950s until the mid-1970s found out. They called besom the broom, and though the Israelis adopted the *sand cuts* on the bolt and bolt carrier as used by the British on their L1A1 version, there was a lot more sand in their area of operations than those sand cuts could digest.
I like the FAL, don't misunderstand me. But I'd far rather carry the Rhodesiam R1 version than the T48.
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posted on
07/11/2010 12:26:21 PM PDT
by
archy
(Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam)
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