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LMAO.

>The HK416 is a military design. Meant for reliability.
Buzzwords and marketing.

>Which is why more militaries have bought the expensive German gun than any other AR15 variant.
Military procurement has never been immune to buzzwords and marketing.

>It fixes many of the AR's problems like the gas system
It very crudely grafts a short-stroke piston onto a rifle design which was never meant to have one. It has pretty good reliability, but mainly because the rifle is overgassed like no goddamn tomorrow, they need to use an expensive buffer containing tungsten powder to make sure that the bolt doesn't beat the receiver to death.
As a result of being gassed so fucking hard, the rifles also have a pretty conspicuous heat signature even when shot with suppressors.

>while keeping some of the good points like the sleek design, in line recoil, and lots of rail space.
They fucking kill the point of the in-line action by adding the mass of the short-stroke piston above the line of the bore, and, again, gasses it harder than an Austrian painter, so you get lots of added momentum above the line of the bore. Notice how the receiver is taller? That piston has to fit somewhere.

>If the AR had a longer bolt travel you could have HK416 level reliability with normal civvie AR recoil.
OR, hear me out, H&K could have applied their experience and knowledge of making plastic bodied AR18 rifles, and then made an aluminum bodied AR18 action with rails and an in-line stock. It wouldn't have to be so stupidly overgassed (just add a high setting on a three-position gas block), or have to worry about problems like carrier tilt.
No need to make the receiver extra long! Pic related was the better direction for H&K, but because military procurement isn't immune to ineptitude, the HK416 lives on with militaries who mostly haven't fought any real wars in many decades.

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