Why didn't the us army copy the ak 47?

>>34395008
>Why didn't the us army just eat their pride and hand those dirty commies a huge propaganda coup?
. . .

>>34395008
>Why didn't the us copy an inferior system?
Gee anon, I just can't figure it out.
Also bait.

>>34395008
>Why didn't the US Army adopt a weapon that used a calibre that wasn't NATO standard?
>Or manufactured in th USA at the time?

>>34395049
op here
Yeah but why didnt they just make it?
also, whats a NATO?
sorry im not an expert on guns, I just came to /K/ to ask this question

>>34395008
The more important question is why grab an ak over a m14?
Politics.
Im an ak guy I love mine more than my ar but a m14 is a bad ass superior gun that screams America, red white and blue, commie death machine when fired, id rather had that than m16 or ak

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>>34395056
>also, whats a NATO?

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>>34395008
>>34395056
Sure is Summer in here

>>34395056
We've been through this anon. What you know just isn't so. The M16 is fine, especially the later iterations. It may have been a rough start but now and even then it's no contest.

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>>34395008
I'll just ignore all the old dead memes.

The only gun the US should have copied was the PKM.

>>34395097
I think it's overrated, I mean, you can just get an ak with a bipod and banana clips and it does the same for less weight right?

>>34395039
This. They refused to use the FAL, made by their allies, even after they agreed to use it in exchange for making everyone else use .30-06 short instead of .280 British (even though they knew the .280 would be a better cartridge because their own trials developed something nearly identical, .276 Pedersen)
>inb4 hurr muh AYY ARR is better
Even if we assume that's the truth it clearly doesn't matter because the FAL lost to the fucking M14 train wreck in the blind eyes of Uncle Sam. US military materiel is 10% technical specs, 20% literally whos trying to make their mark, 20% fuddlore, and 50% nationalism.

>>34395056
>what's a NATO?
>what's Google?

Rest of you seem to have missed my point about M16 NOT being chambered in a NATO calibre.
5.56mm wasn't adopted as standard until AFTER the USA had switched over, in another example of unilateral imposition.

>>34395039

Yeah instead they just handed over Vietnam.

>>34395056
>also, whats a NATO?
I fucking love summer.

>>34395104
>banana clips
Tasty bait though. Lurk more.

>>34395156
help me master the arts of the bait

ARENT YOU GLAD ITS SUMMER?!

For the same reason we have american football, american top gear etc...
America thinks it can do things better than the rest of the world....
When it cant.

Also, supporting aks isnt supportibg the soviets, its supporting the germans.

>>34395008
Colt did, but it turned out that by the time it was finished, the M16A1 features were solved, so the model 703 wasn't needed.
>http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2015/02/08/original-piston-ar-15-1969s-colt-703/

OP here

>>34395828
oh wow, I genuinely did not know about this>>34395156
see, master, I baited the right way, farmed so keks and got new intel

Thx anons, it was fun playing with you :'DD

>>34395008
it is cheaper to just buy AK from former Commie country

>34395008
>know they are not very accurate but they never jam unlike the m16
Oh (you).

>>34395056
Is this the triumphant return of hunter 2-1?

>>34396387
yes

>>34395008
Because we're not commie pieces of dogshit

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>>34395049
its not like .223/5.56 was any more of a standard at the time of development, since it literally was developed for the AR-15. Your argument makes no sense.

>>34395008
>>34395008
>Why didn't the us army just copy them and hand them to every soldier?
Gee I don't know. Why did the U.S. beat Russia to the moon? It's not like their technology isn't something russia copies and tries to out do but constantly fails constantly....