The Lance of The Battle of Ia Drang

From 1950s, when the NATO was conducting "munitions commonality" and wanted to unify the caliber of ammunition, the United States believed that the T65 7.62×51mm caliber bullets had a long range and strong penetration, and opposed any small-caliber ammunition that reduced its power. Then the United States relied on its The strong influence exerted by the alliance leader after World War II made NATO officially decide in 1953 that the T65 bullet would be the NATO standard bullet as the "7.62×51mm NATO". And the US military also selected the Springfield T44 rifle as the standard rifle - the M14 rifle.

After the M14 rifle was equipped with military, it was immediately deploy to Vietnam. However, in the jungles of Vietnam, the terrible shortcomings of the M14 rifle began to be exposed. After the US Army failed to change equipment, they learned from the experience and pinned their hopes on the development of another leading weapon - SPIW. At first, the army's top brass only regarded the M16 as a transitional weapon between the M14 and the SPIW. However, due to the failure of the SPIW, the M16 was finally made the standard rifle of the US military.

As an early type of the XM16E1 Mod 603 "early model", the "X" prefix indicates that it is an experimental number (meaning that it has not yet been officially signed contract), and it is also the first US military coded as "03" (army type, with "bolt assist knob"). into the M16. It was the first M16 series rifle to be used in the Vietnam War (1964~66). Its distinctive 3-prong flash hider has become a classic icon of the M16 series in Vietnam War.

The XM16E1's first combat deploy after it was fully distributed to the military was in the battle of Ia Drang in Vietnam in November 1965, and it performed quite well. Lieutenant Colonel Hal Moore (Harold Gregory Moore, Jr.) wrote in his report that this victory was brought about by "brave soldiers and the M16."

However, from 1965 to 1967, the XM16E1 still exposed many problems in combat in Vietnam battlefield. After continuous improvement, the masterpiece of rifle - the M16A1 appeared in the Vietnam battlefield and was continuously used and derived a variety of branch series, and competed with the AK series, making the AR series become one of the two mainstream rifle series in the world.

The the classic Vietnam War series

Since VFC has gradually improved the AR GBBR system to the V3 version, it has received generally good feedback from users. This time, we launched the classic Vietnam War series of Airsoft, allowing users to simply adjust and use it directly on the Airsoft field, not just for collecting. In the future, VFC will launch more Vietnam War classic Airsoft products, so please look forward to it!