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Revamped L85A1 rifles by Heckler & Koch from 2001-? with improved components, Most notably the external 'Comma' shaped combined cocking handle/brass deflector. | Revamped L85A1 rifles by Heckler & Koch from 2001-? with improved components, Most notably the external 'Comma' shaped combined cocking handle/brass deflector. | ||
[[Image:Sa80-l85a2.jpg|thumb|none|400px|L85A2 5.56mm]] | [[Image:Sa80-l85a2.jpg|thumb|none|400px|L85A2 5.56mm]] | ||
[[Image:L85A2AG36.jpg|thumb|none|400px|L85A2 with AG36 launcher]] | |||
===SA80 carbine=== | ===SA80 carbine=== | ||
Revision as of 23:08, 11 August 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
The original variant of the SA80 series issued to the British Forces. These were manufactured by Royal Ordnance (Formerly known as Enfield) from 1985 until 1994 after the notorious faults of the weapon in battlefield conditions.
L85A2
Revamped L85A1 rifles by Heckler & Koch from 2001-? with improved components, Most notably the external 'Comma' shaped combined cocking handle/brass deflector.
SA80 carbine
This weapon was/is a proposal for a lighter, compact rifle issued to NCO's of the British Forces.
L22A1 carbine
L22A2 carbine
L86A1
The L86A1 Light Support Weapon is the sustained fire variant of the SA80 series. Many have been replaced by the FN Minimi in this role or converted into L22 Carbines for AFV/Chopper crew members as a personal defence weapon. The L86A1 is also used by the ACF but only 3-Star+ Trained Cadets are allowed to use this weapon.
L86A2
A revamped L86A1 LSW. The L86A2 is in limited usage along the FN Minimi, only for DMR purposes as it has superior accuracy/range.
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. The correct term is Rifle, 5.56mm, Cadet GP L98A1. L98A1 rifles are used by all Star Level cadets with 3-Star onwards enabling access to the L86A1 LSW.
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
- Bugs (episode "Stealth")
- 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")