They literally just had it so they had local gun manufacturing capabilities, Idk why people think it was a wonderwaffen or the Brits gave a shit about assault rifle RND when there was no profit in it at the time.
Half the "foreign" designs the Brits use throughout the world are usually bought under licence form countries with the best weapon designs with this as an exception, though people do tend to liek the gun it is pretty accurate and that heavy weight offsets the recoil now that it's "fixed".
But yeah that's how globalised world works. Ukraine will be "licencing" ship building from the UK, Poland will be licensing Brimstone manufacturing this is Europe, it's like getting mad at Texas using Californian chips.
The Brits do good money on high precision rifles, though
Half of Europe's rifles are just there to maintain domestic production.
I used to feel dirty about wanting a Triumph motorcycle because it’s not “made in Britain” anymore but then I realized that building things in other countries and slapping your logo on it is as British as it gets, and I’d 200% trust a motorbike made in Thailand more than one made in Britain
I remember the anon who originally posted that. He said his major involved photoshop and he spent hours making that photo. Everyone in that thread were shuttering in fear because of how cursed his pic was. I wonder what hes up to now?
inb4 >nah mates, the SA-80 is fixed now! >yeah it weighs more than any other service rifle (because that extra weight comes in handy when controlling the mighty recoil of the 5.56) >sure it's still unremarkable in every other aspect >sure every other platform is arguably better than it >but it doesn't literally fall apart under duress now so you're not allowed to make fun of it!
It's probably someone that likes guns from video games. When I was a kid I used to think SA-80 was a pretty b***hin gun based on the video games I played, then when I started actually getting into guns for real I learned about its shitty history and development, how for various reasons soldiers always hated using it and SF units just use ARs for the most part, that they literally never bothered trying to make them for civilian markets because there's no interest in them, the fact that nearly all the other major militaries that fell for the bullpup meme have switched back to conventional rifles, and so on, so I grew.
The L85 series of weapons are peak Britbongistan >Initial development was plagued with issues, due to the design by committee and the domestic firm making the rifle being shit >Rifle gets shipped out way too early to troops still ripe with problems, with the troops universally despising the rifle because of the aforementioned shortcoming >The rifle gets pushed to war and, shocker, it ends in disaster with a side of international humiliation for the British >Royal Army completes a list of the shortcomings of the rifle (over 100 lol), but the government does nothing >The document gets leaked to the press, causing a national scandal >In typical Britbong fashion, the government denies everything, then has to admit it's real, and then attempts to pass blame on to the now defunct firm who made it >Despite it being own by the government (lmao) >The government relents, and has to ship it out the Krauts at HK to make it serviceable >After years of development (and millions of pounds of the taxpayers money), HK comes back and delivers what is a heavy, bullpup AR-18 >Army is now looking to retire the design by 2025
If that doesn't scream nu-Britain, I don't know what does
That must be why fewer people than maybe ever are using them.
because people use the type of weapon that america uses. if america used a bullpup, nato countries would use bullpups. see: multicam/digital camouflage copied by the rest of the planet for 0 reason
Not a bong, but the rifle entered service in 1985. A 40 year service life for a weapon is pretty decent. Not everything has to be a 1911 or M16 that refuses to be retired even after better alternatives become available.
It was only ever a failure though. It was fricked up all the times it was used in combat and it never saw use again after it was "improved" to get it to a point where it is a barely passable weapon.
>It was fricked up all the times it was used in combat
The A2 had started to be rolled out and was working well by the time GWoT got going. It was the Gulf War and Kosovo where British soldiers were equipped with a criminally poor weapon.
I like the story of the L96 myself >Two guys have a hobby of making replicas of guns in their garage >Their day job is make bicycles >One of their mates is an international competition shooter >Hear about a tender going out for sniper rifles from the army >Decide to chance their arm at it >Build a sniper rifle with his help >It's good >It's really good >MOD asks them to make thousands >Sends a requisitions officer round >There's only three of them >"Where's the rest of your workforce?" >"Uhhh, they're out to lunch" >"Oh well, this is just a formality, we only need to make sure you're not just three guys in a garage" >"Hahaha... yeah"
Y'know, it'd be easier just to link to the archive in your OP, it'd save people replying yet at the same time people could read the exact same replies this thread has and will recieve that are exactly the same in previous L85 threads.
Trigger isn't great, but its shaped like that so you can fit gloved fingers in the guard, and its angled at the back so it can cut though any snow that gets stuck in there.
I won't say its the best rifle in the world or anything, but its fine. Its unremarkable in that the current version just works and does its job perfectly fine.
with gun like that, thinking about shooting is as far as you can get
Brilliant
With grammar like yours, thinking about shooting into your sisster is as far as you can get.
This was a stupid retort and you should feel bad for even typing it.
>so shit an outside company had to fix it
yeah
They literally just had it so they had local gun manufacturing capabilities, Idk why people think it was a wonderwaffen or the Brits gave a shit about assault rifle RND when there was no profit in it at the time.
Half the "foreign" designs the Brits use throughout the world are usually bought under licence form countries with the best weapon designs with this as an exception, though people do tend to liek the gun it is pretty accurate and that heavy weight offsets the recoil now that it's "fixed".
But yeah that's how globalised world works. Ukraine will be "licencing" ship building from the UK, Poland will be licensing Brimstone manufacturing this is Europe, it's like getting mad at Texas using Californian chips.
The Brits do good money on high precision rifles, though
Half of Europe's rifles are just there to maintain domestic production.
I used to feel dirty about wanting a Triumph motorcycle because it’s not “made in Britain” anymore but then I realized that building things in other countries and slapping your logo on it is as British as it gets, and I’d 200% trust a motorbike made in Thailand more than one made in Britain
Fixed it.
I remember the anon who originally posted that. He said his major involved photoshop and he spent hours making that photo. Everyone in that thread were shuttering in fear because of how cursed his pic was. I wonder what hes up to now?
Is it honestly that cursed? It's clearly a photoshop but it doesn't look particularly bad to me.
>Is it honestly that cursed?
That's how the other anons felt and I for one would own something like that IRL. I personally like it.
I shooped it in GIMP using images taken from collections.royalarmouries.org, it took about 10mins, and I should have been working at the time.
Ngl I actually love the way that thing looks, like the bastard child of an stgw-55 and AR-18. Would cop for sure.
>MVMMMY
love it
That's just the LR-300
GET OUT OF HERE STALKER
Absolutely disgusting.
>constantly have to figure out the puzzle that is reloading and earing the constant malfunctions
Frick off, Nigel. Your rifle is shit and nobody given any other option uses it.
>AUG
>Famas
>SA80
which is the best Euro bullpub?
They all lose.
SA80 is the clear winner.
AUG was the best, but the FAMAS has my heart.
non of these come even close, to the master
I don't care if it's shit or not, it just looks good
Horrific ergos, ask any leaf.
meh, they're fine
>safety, always off
Get in here, bros, the new Bong cope just dropped.
I'm not a bong you dumb Black person
Yeah, thinking about how to ask HK to un-frick it so you stop thinking about dropping mags.
inb4
>nah mates, the SA-80 is fixed now!
>yeah it weighs more than any other service rifle (because that extra weight comes in handy when controlling the mighty recoil of the 5.56)
>sure it's still unremarkable in every other aspect
>sure every other platform is arguably better than it
>but it doesn't literally fall apart under duress now so you're not allowed to make fun of it!
It's probably someone that likes guns from video games. When I was a kid I used to think SA-80 was a pretty b***hin gun based on the video games I played, then when I started actually getting into guns for real I learned about its shitty history and development, how for various reasons soldiers always hated using it and SF units just use ARs for the most part, that they literally never bothered trying to make them for civilian markets because there's no interest in them, the fact that nearly all the other major militaries that fell for the bullpup meme have switched back to conventional rifles, and so on, so I grew.
>AR's are superior
Nah.
Bullpups have their uses.
That must be why fewer people than maybe ever are using them.
only homosexuals use ars and there are many homosexuals on this board
The L85 series of weapons are peak Britbongistan
>Initial development was plagued with issues, due to the design by committee and the domestic firm making the rifle being shit
>Rifle gets shipped out way too early to troops still ripe with problems, with the troops universally despising the rifle because of the aforementioned shortcoming
>The rifle gets pushed to war and, shocker, it ends in disaster with a side of international humiliation for the British
>Royal Army completes a list of the shortcomings of the rifle (over 100 lol), but the government does nothing
>The document gets leaked to the press, causing a national scandal
>In typical Britbong fashion, the government denies everything, then has to admit it's real, and then attempts to pass blame on to the now defunct firm who made it
>Despite it being own by the government (lmao)
>The government relents, and has to ship it out the Krauts at HK to make it serviceable
>After years of development (and millions of pounds of the taxpayers money), HK comes back and delivers what is a heavy, bullpup AR-18
>Army is now looking to retire the design by 2025
If that doesn't scream nu-Britain, I don't know what does
Brown hands typed this post.
alhamdulillah, britain is brown now, angloid
because people use the type of weapon that america uses. if america used a bullpup, nato countries would use bullpups. see: multicam/digital camouflage copied by the rest of the planet for 0 reason
britain is literally 90% white, now go back to the sweatshop zhang
Fricking kek.
Ironic coming from a Britbong
Literally points to countries with more actual white people that aren't slavs
There's not a whole lot, anon. This is the reality we live in.
>more actual white people
The bongs can be barely be considered human, to call them "white" is laughable.
>The bongs can be barely be considered human
Cool ESL, my darkie friend.
>Army is now looking to retire the design by 2025
Not a bong, but the rifle entered service in 1985. A 40 year service life for a weapon is pretty decent. Not everything has to be a 1911 or M16 that refuses to be retired even after better alternatives become available.
It was only ever a failure though. It was fricked up all the times it was used in combat and it never saw use again after it was "improved" to get it to a point where it is a barely passable weapon.
>It was fricked up all the times it was used in combat
The A2 had started to be rolled out and was working well by the time GWoT got going. It was the Gulf War and Kosovo where British soldiers were equipped with a criminally poor weapon.
Will you apologize when they adopt an AR and confirm everything we've ever told you in these threads?
i honestly dont give a frick what the bongs do
I like the story of the L96 myself
>Two guys have a hobby of making replicas of guns in their garage
>Their day job is make bicycles
>One of their mates is an international competition shooter
>Hear about a tender going out for sniper rifles from the army
>Decide to chance their arm at it
>Build a sniper rifle with his help
>It's good
>It's really good
>MOD asks them to make thousands
>Sends a requisitions officer round
>There's only three of them
>"Where's the rest of your workforce?"
>"Uhhh, they're out to lunch"
>"Oh well, this is just a formality, we only need to make sure you're not just three guys in a garage"
>"Hahaha... yeah"
And that's the origin story of the AWM
No coherent thought was put into the creation of the SA80.
The good guys always use bullpups. Bullpups haven't been used in any school shootings, church shootings of hotel shootings.
Imagine the next mass shooter uses an AUG and puts bullpups on the gun grabbers' radar.
a Black person used a TAVOR once
>ar-18 in a bubba’d bullpup conversation kit
British people will literally defend anything British.
don't insult bullpup AKs like that, they actually have a good weapon at their core.
Looks cool/10
It's kinda amazing how anglo discard one rifle to make literally the same but with atrocious quality and need HK just to replace shitty parts
Y'know, it'd be easier just to link to the archive in your OP, it'd save people replying yet at the same time people could read the exact same replies this thread has and will recieve that are exactly the same in previous L85 threads.
what is wrong with europeans always mixing up their god damn green and tans
the scar is even worse
bullpups are homosexuality in gun form
Cause all the action is happening in the rear?
im thinking that looks like a real scrap pile of shit
It genuinely looks like some Fallout 4 pipe rifle bullshit.
No it's just British engineering.
Trigger isn't great, but its shaped like that so you can fit gloved fingers in the guard, and its angled at the back so it can cut though any snow that gets stuck in there.
>Justifying yet again that hideous cludge of a rifle
The post
From one bong to another:
Just admit it was a bit shit until we got outside help to fix it. "Take the L", as our Yank cousins say.
makes sense that bongs would use elcans but i never knew they did.
Thoughts on Elcan ?
I won't say its the best rifle in the world or anything, but its fine. Its unremarkable in that the current version just works and does its job perfectly fine.