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[[Image:Image-SA80-L86A2.jpg|thumb|none|400px|L86A2 5.56mm]] | [[Image:Image-SA80-L86A2.jpg|thumb|none|400px|L86A2 5.56mm]] | ||
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The '''L98A1''' GP Rifle is used to train the Army Cadet Force and | The '''L98A1''' GP Rifle is used to train the Army Cadet Force and Air Training Corps for basic weapon handling and shooting skills, and the rifle is fired as a manually operated, straight pull magazine repeater rifle. | ||
[[Image:Sa80-L98A1.jpg|thumb|none|400px|L98A1 5.56mm Cadet GP Rifle. Inert rifle for Drill Purposes hence the white tape and "DP" stamp.]] | [[Image:Sa80-L98A1.jpg|thumb|none|400px|L98A1 5.56mm Cadet GP Rifle. Inert rifle for Drill Purposes hence the white tape and "DP" stamp.]] | ||
Revision as of 17:22, 20 July 2009
The SA80 can be seen in the following films, television series, anime and video games used by the following actors:
SA80 Rifle Series
The SA80 (Small Arms for the 1980s) is a series of 5.56 mm Bullpup Assault Rifles designed on the AR-18 operation and produced (From 1985 to 1994) by the Royal Small Arms Factory at Enfield Lock. In 1988 production of the rifle was transferred to the Royal Ordnance’s Nottingham Small Arms Facility (later British Aerospace, Royal Ordnance; now BAE Systems Land Systems Munitions & Ordnance).
Variants
L85A1
L85A2
SA80 carbine
L22A1 carbine
L22A2 carbine
L86A1
L86A2
L98A1
The L98A1 GP Rifle is used to train the Army Cadet Force and Air Training Corps for basic weapon handling and shooting skills, and the rifle is fired as a manually operated, straight pull magazine repeater rifle.
L98A2
The L98A2 is a semi-automatic revamp of L85A1's and L98A1's to be issued to all Cadet Forces between 2009-2010.
Specifications
- Weight - 3.82 kg (8.4 lb) (L85A1 empty)
- Length - 785 mm (30.9 in) (L85A1)
- Barrel - length 518 mm (20.4 in) (L85A1)
The SA80 can be seen in:
Film
- British Soldiers in 28 Days Later
- British Soldiers in Children of Men
- British Soldiers in Flood
- British Soldiers in Doomsday
- Seen on a gun rack in Underworld
- Seen in rows on a gun rack on the Sulaco in the extended version of Aliens
- British Army guards in Patriot Games (fitted with bayonets)
- Used by the squad in Dog Soldiers (fitted with the Blank Fireing Adaptor(B.F.A.) to make the action cycle while using blanks).
- Linden Ashby as Chase in Resident Evil: Extinction
- Seen in New Police Story
Television
- Battlestar Galactica (Re-imagined) Season 1 (seen used briefly by an Honor Guard and in the arsenal of the Caprica Bucaneers resistance)
Video Games
- S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl (as the "IL86", with and without M203 grenade launcher and suppressor, and rather infamously depicted with the barrel cover left on)
- Battlefield 2: Modern Combat (with M203 grenade launcher)
- Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 (as the "L85A2")