The SA80 (Small Arms for the 1980s) is a British family of 5.56×45mm NATO service weapons used by the British Army. The L85 Rifle variant has been the...
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such as the Chinese QBZ-95, Israeli IWI Tavor, French FAMAS and British SA80. The origin of term "bullpup" for this configuration has long been unclear...
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rifle Sterling SAR-87 SA80 Leader Dynamics Series T2 MK5 SR 88 List of bullpup firearms List of assault rifles "British Enfield SA80 Part 2: XL60 series"...
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British service rifle was finally adopted some years later in form of the SA80 assault rifle, which remains in service today. The British Army entered World...
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and it is said to have influenced many later weapons such as the British SA80, the Singaporean SAR-80 and SR-88, the Belgian FN F2000, the Japanese Howa...
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Koch HK 93 Heckler & Koch XM8 M4 carbine M16 rifle PVAR rifle Ruger Mini-14 SA80 SIG SG550 / 551 / 552 / 553 / 556 Steyr AUG CZ 805 BREN IMI Galil 7.62×51mm...
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by the United Kingdom for the Individual Weapon Project, which became the SA80 series of small arms. The 4.85×49mm cartridge is based on the 5.56×45mm NATO...
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British Army's SA80 rifles (which had been manufactured by Royal Ordnance) This contract entailed a modification program to the SA80 series of rifles...
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designed to fit other STANAG 4179-compliant weapons such as the HK416 and SA80 is introduced, as well as several other products such as the MBUS (Magpul...
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the .280 as "lacking power", but the bullpup layout was used later in the SA80. A somewhat similar Australian concept was the KAL1 General Purpose Infantry...
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and functionality of select firearms from the Armouries. Thorneycroft to SA80: British Bullpup Firearms, 1901–2020 (Headstamp Publishing, 2020) Black &...
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/ thermal imaging sight for the SA80 A3. Laser Light Module (LLM Mk3) - used for aiming and illumination with the SA80 A3. Jim Compact Sight - new infared...
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Heckler & Koch HK69A1 (redirect from HK SA80)
under-carried launcher to be mated to the SA80, and never acquired. The necessary step in equipping the SA80 rifles with an underslung grenade launcher...
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Kickstarter, and raised $800,256. Headstamp's second book, Thorneycroft to SA80: British Bullpup Firearms, 1901–2020, authored by Jonathan Ferguson, raised...
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forward in a manner similar to the British SA80. Instead of the sheet metal receiver of the AR18 and SA80, the Bushmaster M17S uses an extruded 7075-T6...
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be seen in the thumb grooves found on the cocking handles of the British SA80 family of rifles; these provide extra grip when charging the weapon, preventing...
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Barnsley: Pen & Sword Books. pp. 83–84. ISBN 9781526737991. "The British Army – SA80 individual weapon". www.army.mod.uk. Archived from the original on 16 June...
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belt-fed LMG designed to fill the gap between RPK and PK machine gun. The SA80 program was designed to create a family of light assault weapons that had...
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Royal Marines and the British Army Ranger Regiment as a replacement for the SA80. "AUSA 22 – KS-1 from Knights Armament Co". Soldier Systems Daily. 12 October...
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Worksop Nottinghamshire SA SA01 SA1, SA2, SA3, SA4, SA5, SA6, SA7, SA8, SA9, SA80,non-geo SA99non-geo Swansea (West Glamorgan) SA SA10, SA11 Neath West Glamorgan...
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List of bullpup firearms Ferguson, Jonathan S. (2021). Thorneycroft to SA80: British Bullpup Firearms 1901–2020. Nashville, Tennessee: Headstamp Publishing...
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(for use with the C8SFW/L119A1 carbine) and AG-SA80 under the designation L123A3 (for use with the SA80/L85 rifle). Heckler & Koch AG36 M320 grenade launcher...
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bayonet with a clip-point blade. It has a hollow handle that fits over the SA80/L85 rifle's muzzle and slots that lined up with those on the flash eliminator...
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reliability and has now standardised on these for all C8 and operational SA80 users, with well over a million magazines purchased. Many weapons are fitted...
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attempt at climbing the Buckingham Palace fence despite the guard aiming his SA80 rifle at the would-be intruder.[non-primary source needed] Most recently...
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11 years without using a battery, used in the British SUSAT sight for the SA80 (L85) assault rifle and in the American ACOG (Advanced Combat Optical Gunsight)...
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who declined it because they were already in the process of adopting the SA80 bullpup design manufactured by Royal Ordnance Factories. The SAR-87 was a...
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Warrior Tracked Armoured Vehicle, Panther Command and Liaison Vehicle, and the SA80 assault rifle. Major naval projects include the Astute-class submarines,...
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Whitechapel Bell Foundry L85 Individual Weapon (IW), a variant of the British SA80 AOM French Airlines, IATA code IW Wings Air, IATA code IW IWBank, an Italian...
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the basis of the SA80 family of weapons. As the L85 it replaced the L1A1 Self-Loading Rifle as the standard British rifle. The SA80 was the last weapon...
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