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Reasonable maintenance can prevent that, but if a system is going to be neglected the M1/M1A is more like the AK in terms of handling neglect.
No, sorry, I don't buy that argument at all. The AK uses an easy replaced gas piston and doesn't have to be fed ammo within a very specific pressure curve. If an op-rod bends or breaks on a M14, the gun's done.
A 47-pattern AK gas piston is $5-10, an M14 op rod is $200 and is rarely a drop in part, according to M14 Forum:
Fitting op rod?
Try replacing a M14 op-rod in Yemen - there's a reason why very few foreign countries, if any, contracted to buy new production M14s (H&R tried to sell the M14 - guess how great that went). Most if not all M14s in foreign service were US surplus.
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