{"id":197148,"date":"2008-02-27T17:51:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-27T22:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/02\/27\/welfare-for-american-arms-manufacturer\/"},"modified":"2008-02-27T17:51:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-27T22:51:00","slug":"welfare-for-american-arms-manufacturer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/02\/27\/welfare-for-american-arms-manufacturer\/","title":{"rendered":"Welfare for American Arms Manufacturer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US Army is now planning to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.military.com\/NewsContent\/0,13319,162878,00.html\">replace the Iraqi Army&#8217;s AK-47s M-16s<\/a>, claiming, among other things, that the M-16 is more reliable.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, right.<\/p>\n<p>While the M-16 is unquestionably more accurate, reliability and cost are on the AK&#8217;s side.  Additionally, this will require <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">significant<\/span> retraining.<\/p>\n<p>This is just a way to get the M-16 into service so that Colt (or maybe FN, when I last checked they made weapons in South Carolina under license) make lots of money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Army is now planning to replace the Iraqi Army&#8217;s AK-47s M-16s, claiming, among other things, that the M-16 is more reliable. Yeah, right. While the M-16 is unquestionably more accurate, reliability and cost are on the AK&#8217;s side. Additionally, this will require significant retraining. This is just a way to get the M-16 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1063,1098],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-iraq","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197148"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}