That's a Chinese AK. You can tell by the bayonet.
The AK's were reliable.
The M-16's should have been made by Daisy - they would have been much better - couldn't have been worse. But the Vietnamese didn't use the spray technique. They actually had rifles they could trust, and they aimed them. When shooting my M-16 at night with tracers, I could see the bullets tumbling - it begged the spray option. There was no faith in our rifles or the ability to hit anything.
There were some made by Matel, if I recall correctly. "Brrrrrrrr, brrrrrr, brrrrrr".
I remember getting issued an M-16 during basic training at West Point in 1985 and saying "Damn, this is exactly like the p.o.s. plastic rifle my 7 yr old brother was playing with when I left home last Tuesday - it just weighs more".
