>Your perception may have more to it than you know, according to what I have
>read there was a very good chance that Kalishnikov did, base his design on
>it, but improved it. The US was more into the rockets and stuff to care
>about this weapon until they realized the russian infantryman was better
>armed than the GI, and thus the M-16 was born.
i read somewhere that during the vietnam war a lot of GI infantrymen
discarded their M16's and replaced them with shotguns or....AK 47's.
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Received on Tue Sep 05 2000 - 05:50:49 UTC