I'd take the AK-47. Only thing M-16 has going for it is accuracy. FO Tactics I always pick the AK over M-16.
What more do you need going for a weapon?! If you can shoot from farther away and more accurately than the next guy, you can kill him before he even has a chance to hit you with his more "powerful" weapon.
AK, probably. The reliability, stopping power, and low mantinence make it ideal for wasteland conditions. Sure, the M16 is accurate, but it has more jams than the Smuckers company.
More jams than the Smuckers Company? How dare you, sir. My M16 only jammed 4, or 5, or maybe a dozen times . . . a week . . . I . . . :sadvaultboy: Stupid student training rifles. Seriously though, if you keep the weapon serviced and maintained jams are very rare.
While the M16 is actually not extremely unreliable(an M60 on the other hand...)the AK is even more reliable but the M16 has greater range, accuracy, muzzle velocity, and the AK is damn near impossible to control full auto while the M16 is pretty easy to control but M16s don't do so well in the desert with all that dust or so I hear never shot an M16 in a desert but I have personally shot both the guns and found the AK to feel cool but the m16 is more practical and is just,for lack of a better word,better for killing.
Well, I have shot the M16 in a desert, and the jams are rare. You practically have to bath the thing in dirt and sand to cause a jam. Sure, if you go more than a couple of days without cleaning it in such conditions jams will become frequent, but the solution is simple - use a cleaning kit! Don't trade away greater range, accuracy, and muzzle velocity for reliability! Just keep the weapon clean!
AK-47 due to its reliability and high resistance to the elements (in this case, desert and wasteland). I don't know how accurate it is but as long as it's carefully maintained and used right it'll be a fine weapon.
Why is everyone so willing to give up accuracy? Think about this - big, open, flat desert. I'm thinking the guy with the rifle that can accurately drop you from 600 meters away is going to come out ahead compared to the guy who's weapon is only effective to 400 meters. That means that if a two people were facing each other from 600 meters apart, one with an AK, the other with an M16, the guy with the AK would have to run nearly the distance of two American football fields in order to even
hope to hit the guy with the M16, who all that time, can put accurate rounds into his attacker.
As a former US Army soldier i like the M-16 for what it is, it is a very accurate weapon but in a FO3 world you will need something more forgivable than an M-16. I own 2 Ak-47 right now and while they lack a certain refinement that the M-16 has, when it comes to the "hit the dirt and then get up firing" i know the Ak-47 will, just about everytime. Now if you want to debate the issue that at ranges out to 300 meters (every US soldier is taught to shoot the M-16 to 300 meters as a matter of basic training) the M-16 is more likely to put the round sucessfully on target every time. In the end i think the choice will be dictated by ammo after all a brand new M-16 is nothing but a club if you have no ammo, and the same can be said for the AK as well.
Interesting. I'd heard the 300 meter thing for Army basic training before. In the Marine Corps, we have to shoot accurately out to 500 meters with the M16 to pass basic training. I wonder why the difference?
Anyway, in case anyone was still in doubt, I picked the M16. I have the most experience with it in real life, and I like to snipe targets from a distance, so less range and accuracy kills the AK for me. I guess if I were doing nothing but point blank shooting and was going to have no opportunity to perform weapon maintance, I might go with the Ak-47, but probably not. Keep in mind that though the 7.62 rounds hit harder, 5.56 rounds can be more lethal, as they tend to hit bones and ricochet around the body while fragmenting, while 7.62 rounds are more apt to punch straight through.