The M16 rifle (officially designated Rifle, Caliber 5.56 mm, M16) is a family of assault rifles adapted from the ArmaLite AR-15 rifle for the United States military. The original M16 rifle was a 5.56×45mm automatic rifle with a 20-round magazine.

2025年2月26日 · M16 rifle, assault rifle developed as the AR-15 by American engineer Eugene Stoner of ArmaLite Inc. in the late 1950s. The rifle received high marks for its light weight, its accuracy, and the volume of fire that it could provide.

The original AR-15 rifle and every rifle from the M16 family is a gas operated, selective fire, magazine fed weapon. Generally civilian AR-15 type rifles are semi-automatic only. The heart of the M16 rifle is the direct gas impingement system, …

The M16 is an assault rifle used by the United States since the Vietnam War in 1963, [5] based on the AR-15. Since 1975, the M16 has been used by many different countries.

The M16A2 5.56mm rifle is a lightweight, air-cooled, gas-operated, magazine-fed, shoulder- or hip-fired weapon designed for either automatic fire (3-round bursts) or semiautomatic fire...

2023年11月23日 · This rifle served as the official rifle of the US armed forces from the 1980s through the first Gulf War. A limited number of M16A3s, with full-auto capability instead of 3-round bursts, were made for Navy SEAL and other special operations groups.

2017年9月20日 · First adopted in 1962, the select-fire AR-15/M16 in its various forms has armed the U.S. military for more than 50 years.