Current British battle rifle

[chopinbloc]

They could have re equipped with M-16's or G-36's for much cheaper, but that wasn't acceptable because of the "not built here" aspect of national pride.

i talked to a british troop about weapons here in crapistan and he told me that the current version is made in germany, i think by hk. he assured me he's happy with the performance of the latest modification, but being british, i'm not sure he has much to compare it to. i agree that if they made a civilian version i'd buy one, if for no other reason than novelty and barbara and hillary would hate it. i figure that's a good enough reason by itself.

 

[Coronach]

From what I have read, the brits shoveled a ton of money into the SA80/L85 series of weapons, and after a lot of reworking and tweaking, it now performs adequately. It is also now 20 years old, and they would have been money ahead to just bought something else off the shelf.

But it does work. Expensively, but it works.

Mike

 

[BigG]

Like Justin, why the adjective?

I don't care what their battle rifle is, I want to know what their cuddle rifle is.

 

[Raygun]

i talked to a british troop about weapons here in crapistan and he told me that the current version is made in germany, i think by hk.

The SA80 rifles were all made by the Royal Small Arms Factory (RSAF), first at Enfield, then Nottingham. HK was responsible for the SA80A2 rebuild. AFAIK, HK didn't actually build any new rifles, they just remanufactured the existing rifles originally built by RSAF. At the time the A2 rebuild contract began, HK was owned by British Aerospace.

 

[Commissar Gribb]

I don't care what their battle rifle is, I want to know what their cuddle rifle is.

I suppose the cuddle rifle is used by the crew who operate the cuddle tanks.