AR-10 vs. AR-15 vs. AR180-B

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Does anyone know why the AR-10 hasn't seen as much acceptance as the AR-15? I read that the AR-10 was supposed to be the "free world's battle rifle". What happened? How about that new AR180-B offered by Armailte? A real blue collar bargain, huh?
 
According to Ezell's Arms of the World and some other sources I don't exactly recall, original AR-10 was generally inferior as a battle rifle to FN FAL in military tests. Most countries in the Western world adopted FN FAL or Heckler&Koch G3, while the USA choose M14 over FAL mostly for political reasons. A factory in the Netherlands made a batch of AR-10 but the Dutch military was not satisfied with it and swithched to FAL. I think Sudan was the only country that used AR-10 in any larger quantity.
 
The original Ar-180 was designed to be super cheap to produce, using very inexpensive techniques. It never really caught on, as the US gave away/sold M16s to countries for less than it cost the governments to make an AR180.

Kharn
 
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If you want a 5.56 rifle, your choices were many, but the M-16 was a pretty common choice (Uncle Sam's Outfitters had good deals on them :P). If you wanted 7.62 NATO, the FAL (and to a lesser extent the G3) was pretty firmly entrenched in that market. And since the FAL was so darned good (;))...

Mike
 
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