M4 Carbine: The Old Gun the Army Still Wants to Fight a War With China
Channel: US Defense Tech
Date: 03/06/2021

M4 Carbine The Old Gun the Army Still Wants to Fight a War With China

The standard infantry weapon of the U.S. Army can trace its origins all the way back to the Vietnam War. The M4A1 carbine is a shorter, lighter, fully modernized version of the original M-16 rifle first issued in the 1960s. 

The U.S. Army jumped on the AR-15 bandwagon, looking for a lighter but still lethal rifle that would perform well in the jungles of Vietnam. The Army called the new rifle the M16 but fatefully changed the gunpowder used in bullets issued to soldiers.

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