KALASHNIKOV VS. M16

Their rivalry has often changed society

An episode from the series FACE TO FACE

Synopsis

Two deadly weapons in a duel to the death, a combat between two inventions.

This time, our "duellists" are not men, but objects which largely surpassed the fame and notoriety of their inventors. They come face to face not in offices and markets, but on battlefields. And they have been at it for some 60 years.

This devastating confrontation began with the war in Vietnam and Cambodia, then the Arab-Israeli conflict and Lebanon, and continued with the Iran-Irak war, Afghanistan’s battle against the Soviets, and then the American intervention in Irak. Wars that caused hundreds of thousands of casualties among both soldiers and civilians.