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Originally Posted by MT2008
"Durability" and "reliability" are two different things.
Anyway, I don't think there's much dispute that the 416 is an improvement over the M4. It's just a question of whether it's enough of an improvement to justify the cost. And H&K has never shown a willingness to be flexible, even when it means losing DoD contracts. That's why nearly every weapon H&K has ever submitted to the DoD for testing winds up losing out to someone else...usually FN, nowadays.
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That was my error, I meant so say reliability. Sorry bout that.
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Originally Posted by MT2008
Also, if you check out the inventories of SFs of almost any country in the world that is friendly to the U.S., you will find that nearly all of them use M16s and M4s as their primary long guns. H&K's .223s, including the G36 series and 416, are not nearly as popular as the American M16 family of weapons.
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Heh, that's funny because I remember another article about the M4, where it mentions that Special Forces teams around the world LOVE the M4.