M16
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M16 or M-16 may refer to:

Firearms and military equipment
  • M16 rifle
    M16 rifle
    The M16 is the United States military designation for the AR-15 rifle adapted for both semi-automatic and full-automatic fire. Colt purchased the rights to the AR-15 from ArmaLite, and currently uses that designation only for semi-automatic versions of the rifle. The M16 fires the 5.56×45mm NATO...

    , a United States military rifle
  • M16 mine
    M16 mine
    The M16 mine is a U.S. made bounding anti-personnel mine. It was based on captured plans of the World War II era German S-mine and has similar performance. The mine consists of a cast iron body in a thin steel sleeve. A central fuze well on the top of the mine is normally fitted with a pronged M605...

    , a United States landmine
  • Grigorovich M-16
    Grigorovich M-16
    -Sources:Heinonen, Timo: Thulinista Hornetiin - Keski-Suomen ilmailumuseon julkaisuja 3, Keski-Suomen ilmailumuseo, 1992, ISBN 951-95688-2-4...

    , a Russian World War I-era biplane flying boat
  • Stahlhelm
    Stahlhelm
    Stahlhelm is German for "steel helmet". The Imperial German Army began to replace the traditional boiled-leather Pickelhaube with the Stahlhelm during World War I in 1916...

    , a German World War I helmet
  • M16 MGMC, an anti-aircraft variant of the M3 Half-track
    M3 Half-track
    The Carrier, Personnel Half-track M3 was an armored vehicle used by the United States, the British Empire and the other Allies during World War II and the Cold War. Nearly 43,000 were produced, and supplied to the U.S...



Transportation
  • M16 motorway
    M16 motorway
    The M16 motorway was the designation planned in the late 1960s and early 1970s for use on Ringway 3, a new motorway planned as part of the London Ringways Plan to run a circular route around London....

    , former designation for parts of the M25
  • M-16 (Bosnia and Herzegovina), an important magistral road connecting Banja Luka to Croatia
  • M16 (New York City bus), a New York City Transit Authority bus line between Pennsylvania Station and Waterside Plaza along 34th Street in Manhattan
  • Miles M.16 Mentor, a 1930s British single-engined three-seat monoplane training and communications aircraft
  • M Scow
    M Scow
    The M-Scow is a sloop rigged scow. Commonly called the M-16, the M-scow is sailed widely from Minnesota to New Jersey. The boat was originally designed by Melges Boat Works and became an ILYA sanctioned class in 1959. Over the years, there have been several builders, including: Melges, Larson, Bay...

     (M-16), a 16 foot sailboat
  • M-16, a former designation for U.S. Route 16 in Michigan
  • M16 is the FAA location identifier of John Bell Williams Airport
    John Bell Williams Airport
    John Bell Williams Airport is a public-use airport in Hinds County, Mississippi, United States, three nautical miles northeast of the central business district of Raymond, Mississippi. The airport is located in Bolton, Mississippi and owned by Hinds Community CollegeAlthough most U.S...

    , Raymond, Mississippi
  • Midland M16
    Midland M16
    The Midland M16, also known as the Spyker M16, was the car with which the MF1 Racing team competed in the Formula One season. It was driven by Tiago Monteiro, who had driven for the team in during its Jordan guise, and Christijan Albers, who moved from Minardi.Although Eddie Jordan had sold his...

    , a Formula One car run by Midland F1 in 2006


Other uses
  • M-16 (album)
    M-16 (album)
    M-16 is the tenth album by the German thrash metal band Sodom. The album is a concept album about the Vietnam War and is named after the rifle used by many U.S...

    , an album from German band Sodom
  • Messier 16 (M16), a nebula also called the Eagle Nebula and its associated star cluster
  • M16, a postcode in the M postcode area that covers part of Greater Manchester, England
  • M16, code for Coxarthrosis (arthrosis of the hip) in the International Classification of Diseases ICD-10
    ICD-10 Chapter XIII: Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue
    - Infectious arthropathies:* Pyogenic arthritis* Direct infections of joint in infectious and parasitic diseases classified elsewhere* Reactive arthropathies** Reiter's disease...

  • M16C, a model of microcontroller sold by Renesas but originally developed by Mitsubishi
  • M16, a line of folding knives by Columbia River Knife & Tool
    Columbia River Knife & Tool
    Columbia River Knife & Tool is an American knife company established in 1994, and currently based in Tualatin, Oregon, United States. The company's president and sales executive is Rod Bremer and the finance executive is Peggy Bremer...


See also

  • MI6, (capital m, capital i, six) the British Secret Intelligence Service
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