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British SA80 individual weapon (also called SA80) consists of two kinds of 5.56mm automatic weapons, one is L85A 1 individual weapon (IW)-assault rifle, and the other is L86 1 light support weapon (LSW)-light machine gun. It brought the British army into the new century.
■ One of the next generation guns.
In the early 1970s, British enfield Arsenal began to develop 4.85mm individual weapons, including assault rifles and light machine guns. This gun family is also one of the gun types that participated in the selection test of the next generation rifles of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization held from 65438 to 0977. However, because the United States and NATO and other countries have successively adopted 5.56 mm small caliber rifles, Britain had to give up 4.85 mm caliber in 1980 and use 5.56 mm caliber instead, and developed the corresponding sample guns. 1985 10, the British army officially received the first batch of rifles, known as enfield SA80 individual weapons.
The SA80 individual weapon has been equipped with British infantry, Royal Navy and Air Force as a standard weapon. Infantry troops do not carry guns, and other troops carry guns. The total number of British troops needed is about 400 thousand. To 1989, the first delivery 163000, 1990 produced 57000. Due to the closure of enfield Light Weapons Factory, the gun was transferred to Aerospace Defense Co., Ltd. ... and now it has been sold to other countries.
■ Fierce firepower and high accuracy
The main purpose of L85A 1 5.56mm assault rifle is to kill people with firepower and bayonets. It not only has the characteristics of accurate aiming and shooting of old rifles, but also has the advantages of fierce firepower, high precision, good controllability and flexibility of submachine guns. It is a good individual weapon. He won the first prize in the practical rifle competition held in 1985. The total length of the gun is 785 mm, the barrel length is 5 18 mm, and it weighs 4.98 kg when fully loaded. When shooting, it can be single shot or multiple shots, with an effective range of 500 meters. It fires NATO standard 5.56 mm bullets, namely SS 109 bullets, and can fire 6 10 to 770 bullets per minute. The magazine has a capacity of 30 rounds, and each soldier wears 8 rounds, which can be used in common with American M 16A2 rifle magazines.
The L85A 1 assault rifle is equipped with an optical sight with a magnification of 4 times, which can greatly improve the aiming accuracy and can aim at the battlefield under the condition of poor visibility. The sight is fixed on a base with adjustable direction and height, and the base can slide on a dovetail seat fixed on the top of the upper shell.
■ Sturdy, flexible and multifunctional.
L85A 1 adopts a large number of stamping and welding processes, and only the bolt, gun rack and barrel are processed by conventional machines. The front support, the cheek attachment plate and the support plate are made of plastic nylon with high impact toughness. It has the characteristics of advanced technology, simple structure, firmness and durability, low failure rate, simple decomposition and combination and no need for any special tools. The gun adopts a bracket-free structure, which shortens the length of the whole gun, is convenient to carry, use and operate, and is suitable for fighting in narrow spaces, especially for mechanized infantry equipment, and has the advantage of flexibility and maneuverability. The disadvantage is that you can only shoot the right shoulder, and left-handed people are not suitable; Above the gun bore is the shooter's cheek position, which will have serious consequences if the gun bore explodes; Shortening the gun body is not good for bayonet.
The multi-purpose bayonet is made of stainless steel, and the hollow handle can be inserted into the flame arrester, and it is taken down as a dagger for fighting; There are rows of teeth behind the blade, which are used to cut the rope; Bayonets are matched with scabbard and can also be used as thread scissors.
The multi-purpose sheath is equipped with a saw blade inlaid with tungsten carbide, which is hard and can cut steel and other materials. There is also a grindstone on the back of the sheath to sharpen the blade.
Multi-purpose straps can be used for soldiers to hang guns on their chests, carry them vertically or carry them on their shoulders, and they can immediately turn into combat without unfastening the straps. They can even hang the whole gun on their backs like backpacks in order to climb high. L86A 1 Light support weapons are equipped with integrated bipeds. The gun is 900 mm long and weighs 7.28 kg when full of bullets. It can fire 6 10 to 770 rounds per minute. Its main purpose is to provide suppressed fire cover for infantry with an effective range of 800 meters. L85A 1 and L86A 1 both use 5.56×45mm bullets commonly used in NATO. Most parts can be used universally, which improves the mobility, reduces the demand for spare parts and is easy to maintain.