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5)the guy is an idiot.
The M-16 is 5.56mm. The newer AK-74 is 5.45mm. The rounds do not interchange. In Vietnam the enemy used SKS's, AK-47's (both rifles chambered 7.62x39mm), M1 Garands, M1 Carbines, anything they could get ahold of. They scoured the countryside for weapons, and would pick the battle area clean of M16s, M1911A1s, M-14s, and anything else they could take from the Americans. But they never fired 5.56 ammo in their AKs unless by accident. That is a good way to have one of those annoying little case rupture problems.
The Soviet AK-74 (5.45mm) was adopted in 1974 and was not likely to have been used during American involvement in the Vietnam War.
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D. Kamm
USGI M1911/M1911A1 Pistols Website
http://www.geocities.com/M1911_M1911A1
[This message has been edited by dsk (edited 10-21-2001).]
5)the guy is an idiot.
The M-16 is 5.56mm. The newer AK-74 is 5.45mm. The rounds do not interchange. In Vietnam the enemy used SKS's, AK-47's (both rifles chambered 7.62x39mm), M1 Garands, M1 Carbines, anything they could get ahold of. They scoured the countryside for weapons, and would pick the battle area clean of M16s, M1911A1s, M-14s, and anything else they could take from the Americans. But they never fired 5.56 ammo in their AKs unless by accident. That is a good way to have one of those annoying little case rupture problems.
The Soviet AK-74 (5.45mm) was adopted in 1974 and was not likely to have been used during American involvement in the Vietnam War.
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D. Kamm
USGI M1911/M1911A1 Pistols Website
http://www.geocities.com/M1911_M1911A1
[This message has been edited by dsk (edited 10-21-2001).]