Another military coverup???

Well......
when you consider the damn thing has to be cleaned several times a day......... the answer is NO.

its not practical. Cleaning your weapon in such an envoronment is like taking a shower before you go dumpster diving.

The govornment has issued its soldiers faulty #ty useless weapons. it needs to get with the program and update its basic arms issue. the M-16 has to go.

As Gazrok stated..........our weapons were made by the lowest bidder.

Our country needs to issue its soldiers better weapons. Period. Strong, durable, reliable weapons that can take a beating, because thats what combat is: beatings.

The M-16 is a good weapon in the lab design. but this is the real world.

Uni, it takes alot longer than ten minutes to clean carbon build up, sand grit, and dust from a weapon in the desert. And its impossible to keep the crap from getting back in. This is a desert, not the snows of Scandinavia. Dust and sand blow everywhere.

Sandstorms so powerful they blow abrasive sand into the exhaust of an engine. Think of what that would do to a weapon.