We had an officer while he was who was picking the susat scope that had fallen off approached by a local IRA man who claimed to have nicked a load of the UDR but as they were shit do you want them back?
Should have made a massive effort to sell them to the third world so helping world peace cant really fight a vicious civil war with a pile of junk and even the bayonets toss its doesnt even make a decent club
The A2 works it should as its weight in gold was handed over to the rhine dwarfs of hk to fix the wretched thing.
1st designed in 4.85mm to win the nato new ammo comp as the yanks used 5.56 never going to happen.
2nd a quick redesign didnt work so ROC stole the ar18 design off sterling and bodged it into a bullpup.
3rd Maggie sold off roc to bae who looked at the sites and decided hmm nice place for yuppie flats oh my the way workers once this gats built sling yer hooks, strangely that didnt produce a quality product not that bae gave a shit
Michel klashnikov got shown one when he visted the uk god only knows why you'd that bloke builds a legendary assualt rifle and you show him a piece of crap, his comment was "you must have very clever soldiers"
Only the indians have managed to create a worse weapon the inas all the faults of the sa80 plus a tendacy to spit hot oil into the unfortunate firers face
One excuse given is the indian rifle is ideal for making sure india doesnt start something with china or pakistan
Mind you america has set aside 1/2 billion dollars for a new pistol, which should be a simple thing but they want a modular combat system of enhanced lethality and accuracy. Last time they tried that they got the MK23 of splinter cell fame very accurate very powerful but the size and weight of a small car not exactly a plus in a handgun
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Really? I don't recall seeing any when I was out there. Though probably they already have enough decent guns in stock (for obvious and depressing reasons).
Interesting pic here of a para on patrol who's swapped his trusty bundook and gone native
the SAS and other undercovers favoured them as well . They might have had something worth flogging if theyd just kept it simple and went with what they had .
This I have to see. . . to the googlemobile, boy wonder. . .You mean you missed the delightful picture of "Buff" Hoon being tutored in the use of the L1A1 SLR by a Gurkha corporal on detachment to the Sierra Leonean army, back when he was Minister of Defence, the corry-fisted wanker?
Never going to happen as the pentagons got a sad on with beretta apprantly buying handguns 30 years ago and two wars later things have worn out who knew
Indias dug out its old aks and are issuing them although their procurment system makes the MoD look stunning .
Had friends who got mortared then got sent out at 3 am to find the mortar bombs as they'd missed and failed to explode British sportsmanship I suppouse; ok you failed to kill them the first time we will let them go look for the bombs in case they blow
Anyway the blundered about in the dark for an hour throughly pissed off failed to find anybombs.
Bomb disposal officer in daylight did his nut because they found one bomb in a field with a load of footprints going one way and then back the other
Alas, a google search for "Geoff Hoon Gurkha Sierra Leone" only brings up this:
And this, strangely enough:
Interesting link, thanks for that.
