>>64097049
Ron, pls.

>>64097847
>The magazines were designed to be disposable
I challenge you find a source for this claim. This gets paraded around but nobody can ever verify it.
Now, the original aluminum follower mags weren't particularly great, but there's zero evidence for them having ever been designed to be disposable, it's simply a myth that has been repeated.

>Key internals weren't chrome plated
The chamber not being chrome plated is the single aspect here which affected mechanical reliability, good job addressing something I already mentioned. They would outright stop chrome plating the BCG because it was unnecessary to do so, even with the slightly dirtier powder, because it literally does not matter in any remotely immediate sense if the insides of the BCG gets dirty from shooting.

This isn't blackpowder, you don't stop to clean during battle or after every single engagement.

>The powder change caused the internals to get gunked up with powder residue.
Not to a strongly appreciable degree. Again, if this was such a big problem, they would not have moved away from chrome plating the BCG.

>Cleaning kits were relatively uncommon so guns that got nasty, stayed nasty and produced MORE JAMS.
See my previous point.

>It was a bunch of failures that, when addressed, resulted in a good rifle.
There were a number of problems, and the lack of cleaning kits is certainly a problem in the long run, but it wasn't even remotely an immediate problem, such as the fucked timing or unchromed chambers. You can run an M16 dirty as fuck and that in itself isn't a direct problem for reliability.
Just the same, a heavier recoil buffer and a rifle with merely the chamber chromed (without chroming the rest of the bore, and this was done on some test rifles), would solve 99% of the immediate functional problems the rifle had in the field.

Also, again, these things weren't problems during Project AGILE