[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Have at it......

[trd6478]

m16s are weaksauce, we should give them all of them and replace our guns with hk416s and fn scars, who cares if they arent american

[elhombrelibre]

M16 for IAF ping.

[GoldCountryRedneck]

Given the mission and environment, I'd only trade if it was in a .308 flavor....

[Bob J]

Are they .223 or .308?

[Bob J]

Are they .223 or .308?

[Arthalion]

Yesh, poor Iraqi’s. I’ll take an AK over an M16 any day. Especially in a dirty, sandstorm prone desert environment.

The M16 doesn’t fare all that well in urban combat either. The 5.56 doesn’t have the mass to punch through walls and cars nearly as well as the 7.62.

[1COUNTER-MORTER-68]

JMHO~~~Bad move,,,the AK is a far better weapon than the
M-16 type rifle,,,any of them,,,they WILL NOT operate
with any sand/etc. in the action,,,the AK will,,,
this ammo problem(stealing) is BS,,,the world is full of AK ammo,,,it will never “dry-up”...

[omega4179]

BS. The Ak is perfect for that enviroment and if we had used them we still would have won in 3 weeks. Now the Iraqis wont clean them, they will jam and they can get captured and beheaded on al jazeera and you are out $250 in tax dollars for each one when they already had serviceable AKs.

[OldPossum]

Once while talking with a former Navy SEAL, I was told that when he was in Vietnam, he was shooting at an oncoming Vietcong with an M-16. He said “I knew that I hit that SOB at least 10 times and he still kept on coming. A guy next to me shot the same soldier with an M-14 once and he went down.”

[Chgogal]

FYI

[Thunder90]

If their goal is to prevent ammo stealing, they will be sadly dissappointed. The Iranians have a 5.56mm NATO rifle that they have been smuggling into Iraq.

[cookcounty]

"....and be photographed with the serial number of his new M-16."

American troops are held responsible for their weapons, don't know why it should be different anywhere else.

[Centurion2000]

Great ... send them north to fight off the Turks now.