The M14 rifle, designed in the 1950s to be the US military’s single, do-it-all battle rifle, had a notoriously short and ...

The M14 is one of the worst DMRs in history, and should have never been adopted by the military. That's a powerful statement, but a mostly objective one.

A U.S. soldier with an M14 in 1967 during the Vietnam War; Dept. of Defense image Another prototype from Springfield Armory was the T25, a completely new rifle designed by Earle Harvey in 1945.

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It helped that the M14 is very hardy in desert landscapes. "It handles sandy environments very well," said Reed. "It was actually developed for those environments," added Woody.

Much has been said and written about the M14 rifle and its use in Vietnam, much of it critical. One U.S. Army veteran disagrees, saying his experience with the rifle was preferable to the M16.

The M14 was the standard infantry rifle for all Army and Marine units that deployed to Vietnam in 1965, ... Army expands combat patch approval for soldiers in Africa, Middle East.

What the US Army’s 1959 ‘Soldier of Tomorrow’ Got Right About the Future of Warfare. ... The Army began replacing the M14 with the lighter-weight 5.56-mm M16 assault rifle in the late 1960s, ...

After all, many soldiers are have said to prefer the M14 to the M16 during the Vietnam War, and the rifle has been described by other authors as a “phoenix” rising again and again when the U.S ...

The M14 is the U.S. military’s worst service rifle. It served as the standard-issue rifle for just six years—by the most generous estimates, half that of the U.S. Army’s second shortest ...

The introduction of the M16 as the standard infantry rifle for the U.S. military was supposed to be a revolution. After spending a few years with the bulky M14, American soldiers were going to ...