Fosbery
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Image of British soldiers in Afghanistan from BBC. Note the British camouflage, helmets and SA80 in the background.
The body armour is the newer kind and the recently added foregrip on the SA80 narrows it down to being pretty recent (most likely it was taken within the past couple of days).
The rifle in the foreground baffles me, however. It has a long scope (unlike the SA80s and ARs in British service, fitted with SUSATs or ACOGs) and a folding bipod on the front end so looks like a sniper rifle or designated marksman's rifle. The only sniper rifles in British service as far as I'm aware are the Arctic Warfare, the Arctic Warfare 50, Arctic Warfare Magnum and the Barret M82. There is no DMR that I know of. The Barret and AW50 are too big to be the rifle in the picture, and the AW and AWM, amongst other things, have handguards which are too short.
It doesn't look like a G3 I don't think as there is no barrel type sight at the back end of the receiver. Possibly a FAL?
Here I superimposed a FAL and a G3 on the image for comparison.
The body armour is the newer kind and the recently added foregrip on the SA80 narrows it down to being pretty recent (most likely it was taken within the past couple of days).
The rifle in the foreground baffles me, however. It has a long scope (unlike the SA80s and ARs in British service, fitted with SUSATs or ACOGs) and a folding bipod on the front end so looks like a sniper rifle or designated marksman's rifle. The only sniper rifles in British service as far as I'm aware are the Arctic Warfare, the Arctic Warfare 50, Arctic Warfare Magnum and the Barret M82. There is no DMR that I know of. The Barret and AW50 are too big to be the rifle in the picture, and the AW and AWM, amongst other things, have handguards which are too short.
It doesn't look like a G3 I don't think as there is no barrel type sight at the back end of the receiver. Possibly a FAL?
Here I superimposed a FAL and a G3 on the image for comparison.
