The french guy who ran our armoury from88 onwards this is how he got to be a arourier.we were on a live firing excercise having a good day many rounds and blew a few things up aswell. Fortunately, this has changed with the A2.Īs it appears that FAMAS did rank high in the NATO's list of weapons. The writer Andy McNab stated in his book Bravo Two Zero, that the British Army procured a "Rolls-Royce in the SA80, albeit a prototype Rolls-Royce." This gives the impression that it is not necessarily a bad weapon, but is slightly too temperamental in most circumstances. Many specialist UK formations, such as the SAS, SBS, the Brigade Patrol Troop of 3 Commando Brigade and the Pathfinder Platoon use the Diemaco C7 (a Canadian-made Armalite AR-15 variant) rather than the SA80 because of their different combat requirements and need for a lighter 5.56 mm combat rifle. The adoption of the L85A2 is not universal within the British Armed Forces. As with the L85A1, with most of the weight near the back, a large metal counterbalance in the fore grip was required. Weight remains the SA80's most cited drawback. The AK-101 won reliability on multiple terrain, weather and climatic scenarios. A2 upgraded versions also have a higher muzzle velocity. It outperformed all of them in accuracy (even without the SUSATs), reload speed (physically changing magazine on the move and static) and usability in urban and close-quarters combat (because of its shorter overall length and the ability to affix a bayonet). In March 2005, the L85A2 was put through its paces against the M16, M4, AK-101, FAMAS G2 and G36E modern rifles. The upgrade involved replacement of many internal parts and has vastly increased reliability, to the point of making it one of the most reliable of bullpup configuration weapons. By 2002 the upgraded versions were deployed in first line formations however, the A1 version remains in use for familiarisation purposes during basic training. Two hundred thousand SA80s were remanufactured at a cost of £400 each producing the A2 variant of the weapon. In 2000 Heckler & Koch, at that time owned by Royal Ordnance, were contracted to fix the problems. In 1997 the SA80 was dropped from NATO's list of approved weapons, following which an upgrade programme was started.
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