In the mid-1980s, the United Kingdom became the first major NATO power to adopt a so-called “bullpup” assault rifle. The L85A1 Individual Weapon was unique in that it placed the rifle’s operating ...
Early rifles produced at the Royal Small Arms Factory at Enfield were of poor quality with production improved only after a new factory at RSAF Nottingham went into operation. Numerous design flaws ...
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When a Century-Old Rifle Faced Its Own Extinction
After the British adopted the FAL as the L1A1 rifle, there was still an interest in converting stocks of existing No4 Enfield rifles to the new 7.62x51mm cartridge for reserve and training use. A ...
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Is This the Worst Modern Military Rifle?
Adopted in 1985 as Britain’s new bullpup service rifle to replace the L1A1 FAL and Sterling SMG, the L85A1 (the “A1” here simply denotes the first British iteration) promised a compact, modern small ...
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