It's less easy to immediately demonstrate how reliable a weapon is, and all of those features made the M16 more failure prone
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
The AK47 shoots less far and is heavier and is therefore harder to aim but it turns out in the jungle that matters less
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So many battles being fought at super close range when one group surprises another and everyone is covered in mud
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All that matters is that the gun always works
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This is a thing about old-school manufacture, the wood and steel parts of the AK have a lot of tolerance to them
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The lightweight modern materials of the M16 are much more precision-tooled and stuff doesn't fit together right if slightly off
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I mean, the whole thing reminds me of the Nazis and their shitty ass approach to tech
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect
Like, so many things went wrong for them because they deployed Fancy Tech With Huge Vulnerabilities
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Like "hi! Our tanks are the most advanced in the world! They move faster than the allies and their stupid diesel " *one shot, tank explodes*
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Yeah they spent millions of dollars on the world's biggest tank and then it was useless because it was too big
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It was so heavy even on pavement it would sink into a crater and immobilize itself
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
Hitler also had this obsession with making a gun that could shoot around corners as this ultimate advantage in urban combat
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They spent all this research money proving you can only bend a gun barrel up to like 20 degrees before it won't shoot
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