As long as the tests are fair a modernised GI rifle is going to walk away with it.
A fair test?
Hackworth: “One of the bulldozers uncovered the decomposing body of an enemy soldier, complete with AK-47. I happened to be standing right there, looking down into the hole and pulled the AK out of the bog. ‘Watch this, guys,’ I said, ‘and I will show you how a real infantry weapon works.’ I pulled the bolt back and fired 30 rounds — the AK could have been cleaned that day rather than buried in glug for a year or so. That was the kind of weapon our soldiers needed, not the confidence-sapping M-16.”