The M416 assault rifle and M16A4 assault rifle both work on 5.56mm ammunition. In this case, both of these assault rifles have the same amount of power or damage per shot. What this means is that when ...

The M16A4 may soon retire. This week, the Marine Corps announced via internal memo that the M4 carbine will become the primary-issued rifle in infantry and security units, as well as replace the M16 ...

November 28, 2015: The U.S. Marine Corps has decided to equip all their combat troops with 17,000 M4 carbines and relegate their M16A4 rifles to support troops .Eventually all M16s will be retired and ...

After repeated urgings from Congress to move to a common rifle round with the Army, Marine Corps officials told lawmakers Tuesday that they're getting close to being able to do so. The Marine Corps ...

April 29 (UPI) --FN America and Colt's Manufacturing received a $383.3 million, five-year contract to manufacture M16A4 rifles for Afghanistan, Grenada, Iraq, Lebanon and Nepal through the Pentagon's ...

The US military still uses considerable numbers of Colt-produced M16s and M4 carbines today (US Army photo by Spc. Vanessa Hernandez) Legendary small arms manufacturer Colt has officially bowed away ...

You all will remember the discussion we had here and at Military.com on the Infantry Half Kilometer paper by Maj. Tom Ehrhart which examined Army training an equipment shortfalls for the longer-range ...

A U.S. Marine with Bravo Company, Infantry Training Battalion (ITB), School of Infantry-East, prepares ammunition before conducting a live fire exercise with the M240B Medium Machine Gun and the M249 ...

The Marine Corps is contemplating taking away carbines from infantrymen and replacing them with a highly accurate German-designed rifle originally meant to give squads accurate suppressive fire.