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| rdfs:comment | - The AR-16 is a prototypeselect-fire, gas operated battle rifle made by ArmaLite after the US Military adopted and bought the designs of the AR-15 and M16. The AR-16 was only manufactured in prototype form and was never put into production. The AR-16 was Eugene Stoner's last design for ArmaLite; he left the company soon afterwards.
- The AR-16 is a prototype selective fire, gas-operated rifle in 7.62x51mm NATO designed by Eugene Stoner at ArmaLite in the late 1950s. While the AR-16 never was adopted as a service rifle by any nation, its main claim to fame was that, in scaled-down form, it served as the basis for the more widely known 5.56mm AR-18, itself an influence on later designs. Despite the similarity in nomenclature, and while it is an ArmaLite design like the AR-15/M16, it is a very different weapon.
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| abstract | - The AR-16 is a prototypeselect-fire, gas operated battle rifle made by ArmaLite after the US Military adopted and bought the designs of the AR-15 and M16. The AR-16 was only manufactured in prototype form and was never put into production. The AR-16 was Eugene Stoner's last design for ArmaLite; he left the company soon afterwards.
- The AR-16 is a prototype selective fire, gas-operated rifle in 7.62x51mm NATO designed by Eugene Stoner at ArmaLite in the late 1950s. While the AR-16 never was adopted as a service rifle by any nation, its main claim to fame was that, in scaled-down form, it served as the basis for the more widely known 5.56mm AR-18, itself an influence on later designs. Despite the similarity in nomenclature, and while it is an ArmaLite design like the AR-15/M16, it is a very different weapon. Eugene Stoner designed the AR-16 after the AR-15's direct gas impingement action was sold to Colt's Manufacturing Company. Stoner designed a more conventional weapon, using a more conventional short-stroke gas piston in place of the direct impingement system of the AR-15. The design was eventually used in the 5.56mm Armalite AR-18, but the AR-16 was only manufactured in prototype form and was never put into production. The AR-16 was Stoner's last design for ArmaLite; he left the company soon afterwards.
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