Episode 67 - The M-16 Rifle: A Dumb History
Media Type |
audio
Podknife tags |
Comedy
History
Military
Warfare
Categories Via RSS |
Comedy
Publication Date |
Sep 09, 2019
Episode Duration |
01:04:32
On this episode we examine the birth of the M-16 Rifle and its deployment to the Vietnam War. How did the Pentagon take a rifle that passed every test with flying colors and turn it into a piece of shit that undoubtably killed hundreds of American soldiers? Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources for this episode: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1981/06/m-16-a-bureaucratic-horror-story/545153/ https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/m16-rifle-went-war-against-north-korea%E2%80%94and-succeeded-vietnam-not-so-much-32252 https://www.pewpewtactical.com/m16-vietnam-failure https://fenixammo.com/pages/history-of-the-223-remington-cartridge

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