M16 rifle vs M60 machine gun: Specs Compared | ForceTally

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M16 rifle — licensed reference photograph

ASmall arms

M16 rifle

Assault rifle

Credit

Armémuseum (The Swedish Army Museum) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Resized · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source ↗ · Modified

BSmall arms

M60 machine gun

General-purpose machine gun Medium machine gun

First system

Second system

At a glance

Side by side

Length comparisonOne shared metre scale

M16 rifleM16A2

1.007 m

Length source ↗

M60 machine gunLength

1.105 m

Length source ↗

Lengths retain their source configuration and measurement scope.

M16 riflelarger figure on 0 of 2

None

Measured figures

Head to head

48 of 121 rows sourced on both sides

1.01mM16A2

1.11m

Length

All recorded figures & sources

0.986 m

M16A1

Single source

1.007 m

M16A2

Single source

Configuration

Details

M16 rifle and M60 machine gun configuration
Specification	M16 rifle	M60 machine gun
Type	Assault rifle^[source]	General-purpose machine gun Medium machine gun^[source]
Place of origin	United States^[source]	United States^[source]
In service	1964–present^[source]	1960–present^[source]
Used by	See Users^[source]	See Users^[source]

Wars	See Conflicts^[source]	Vietnam War Laotian Civil War Dominican Civil War Cambodian Civil War Moro conflict The Troubles Lebanese Civil War Cambodian–Vietnamese War Sino-Vietnamese War Salvadoran Civil War Operation Urgent Fury Operation Just Cause Persian Gulf War Operation Gothic Serpent War in Afghanistan Iraq War Cambodian–Thai border stand-off Colombian armed conflict Insurgency in the Philippines Bougainville conflict Myanmar conflict various others^[source]

Manufacturer	Colt's Manufacturing Company FN Herstal General Motors ( Hydramatic Division) Harrington & Richardson Remington U.S. Ordnance Chartered Industries of Singapore Diemaco Elisco Tool Manufacturing Company Ministry of Defense Arsenal^[source]	Saco Defense U.S. Ordnance^[source]

Feed system	STANAG magazine 20-round detachable box magazine 30-round detachable box magazine 40-round detachable box magazine 60-round detachable box magazine Beta C-Mag 100-round drum magazine^[source]	Disintegrating belt with M13 Links^[source]

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