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Totally invalid reasons: absolute furphies. Having acknowledged the legitimate reasons, it must be pointed out that military personnel can be incredibly adept at formulating reasons to complain if no valid ones are apparent to them. Digging into the Centre for Army Lessons database yields a fantastic spread of primary sources from soldiers and officers on, or recently returned from, operations in the period that raise a variety of criticisms of the F88 compared to the M4 that have no basis in reality. Soldiers have claimed the M4A1 is variously: more powerful (the opposite is true), more accurate (the opposite is true), more reliable (the opposite is true) and a quarter the price of an F88.

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The last is an understandable guess based on Wikipedia, some non-milspec M4 clone prices, and some bad currency conversions, but it’s mostly incorrect. In reality we could buy something closer to 21 MILSPEC M4A1s for the price of 20 F88s of a given variant (but we’d also have to spend many tens of millions of dollars retraining and replacing magazines, tooling and repair parts, making an M4 acquisition almost certainly more expensive overall). Furphies and rumours such as these have remained largely uncontested and have spread widely throughout the diggernet, popping up in Facebook memes, comments and ordinary discussion regularly. The grass is always greener. Through the same period that many Australian soldiers and officers began clamouring to swap their AUG based rifles for AR15 based rifles, many US soldiers and officers began clamouring to replace their AR15 based rifles with a rifle that used the operating mechanism of the AUG. This provides a clear demonstration of the fact that there is at least an element of the grass always being greener at play here.

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For those unacquainted with the gist of the arguments against the M4 in the US arms and military establishment or the ferocity with which they’re put, I would encourage you to read given by the.The final article looks at the argument most often made for the M4, which perversely has almost nothing to do with the rifles at all: Special Forces.