I went the miltec site and found a posted report from evaluations conducted with lubricants for small arms at crane navy surface warfare center the link posted at the bottom, its over 25 pages long describing salt fog spray tests and silica dust flour tests miltec is described as brand E and had many,many more failures than the clp,read the report also to the side of the site I found this.a letter to a gus fun cast at picatinny arsenal from a dave skeldon who was with a col.padgett who went to the 507th june 19th to investigate the situation here is what he said.Received june 25th.
when reading all the misinformation coming back from iraq do not beleive what you read.I dave skeldon and col.padgett were at the 507th on the 19th,what happened to their weapons was not lubricant related.Read the evaluation on lubricants by crane it is long so I will write their conclusion.
CONCLUSION AND RECCOMENDATION
Based on results of the dust test and salt fog teast,commercially available lubricants investigated did not offer any significant advantages when used in M16A1 rifles"that were new and unfired before the tests"in an environment of excessive airborne dust"the silica flour they used,dust cover open carrier locked back,empty mag in rifle muzzle cap on and dust blown at rifles from muzzle end"high teperatures and corrosive airborne salts when compared to the lubricants currently used by the navy.currently the fleet uses maintenence subsystem maintenence cards[MRCs]to lubricate small arms.MILI-L-63460D CLPis listedas a primary lubricant with VVL800Coil used as a substitute"they dont say what oil it is,but miltec is listed as brand E during tests"other lubricants have been substituted for unusualenvironment and mission specific aplications.usualy by special warfare groups.lubricants that will not wash off weapons during swimming operations[IE salt water and sand]or "no muss no fuss"lubricants for an emplaced sniper.the lubricants used are based on prior use and confidence in the special application.however for the fleet utilizing MRC cards MIL-L-63460 D CLPis an adequate lubricant for general purpose use in dusty corrosive high temperature invironments.
they recomend in the tests LAW light oil be used in winter and LSA and CLP more than adequate the miltec failed 8 times to CLPs 1 time and the milltec did not protect against rust in the fog test they exposed a bolt carrier stripped down coated with the miltec 5 hours rust on firing pin,26 hours rust on carrier,101 hours rust on 30 to 50 % of carrier,they also said in the dust test with the clp 1 failure to feed 8 for miltec,they said that the liquid based lube canceled out the friction of sand in the upper as the carrier moved and spit sand out of the upper it got smoother once it go going with the CLP,with miltec not so good.Check out the test for your selves this is the link..... the link is not working go to the miltec page and scroll down till you see the heading"FOR THE RECORD REGAURDING MIL-SPEC PERFORMANCE TESTING AND HOW IT DOES NOT RELATE TO THE REAL WORLDits over 25 pages long and done at crane.
They say it dosent relate and they are right the test was harsher than what can be expected in the real environment,because the dust chamber was an 8 hour test and longer as the test went on mimicing the sand and dust that would be encountered they called it silica flour,very fine like whats in Iraq.