Found this video, any truth to that? It's in foreign lingo, but Nick will be able to give us a condensed version since he is fluent in this dialect and has the latest Chumak's book on this somewhat controversial subject.
Oy vey, that's a picture of me in the Army cleaning my '74. The same good looks, wife beater t-shirt and the enthusiasm level... Who even used the issued muzzle protector?
Who needs accuracy anyway... Easily compensated by the full-auto mode. The most important thing for the lieutenant is to see that the bores are shiny and the soldiers are tired. The number 1 rule in the Army: The more tired you are, the less thinking you do.
Actually the initial M16 used by the military in the early 1960's was issued with limited cleaning supplies and was considered to be a "self cleaning" firearm.
Infortunately this poor practice/concept along wih the improper powder type and non chromelined bore led to poor performance and operation failures.
Eventually the cleaning kits and the cartoon cleaning instructions and chromelined chamer/bore and a clean burning powder were issued to the troops in the form of the M16A1 model which replaced the M16 and M16E1.
Beginning in 1967/68.
Since the AK used corrosive primed ammunition., the cleaning regimen was necessary to avoid function failures primarily in the gas sysyem.
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