Senior British Army and Royal Marines officers led by Gen Sir Mike Jackson, who commanded the allied force that occupied Kosovo, insisted yesterday that the modified SA80 A2 rifle was a "highly ...

Fielding of the first tranche of upgraded SA80 A3 rifles to the British Army has begun, the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) announced on 11 April. Heckler and Koch is upgrading the British Army’s SA80 A2 ...

A FIREARMS expert has described as "pathetic" attempts to blame British troops for problems with the Army’s controversial SA80-A2 rifle. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you ...

The army signalled today that it is to persevere with its much-criticised SA80 assault rifle, when a top military commander insisted it was a "highly reliable" weapon. General Sir Mike Jackson, the ...

The Army is to keep the controversial SA80 A2 assault rifle after it passed "intensive" tests in the desert. A top military commander told a news conference at the Ministry of Defence in central ...

December 15, 2005: Is the British SA80 rifle (officially designated the L85) a piece of junk? This is a question of no small importance to the grunts in the British Army. The rifle has been plagued ...

The much-criticised SA80 rifle is a "highly reliable" weapon, a top military commander has insisted. Gen Sir Mike Jackson, Commander-in Chief, UK Land Forces, said that he was satisfied that the ...

British soldiers in Afghanistan have said the army's new SA80-A2 rifles have three faults, said the Ministry of Defence (MoD). Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon has promised that claims the weapon misfires ...

Pictured is the new SA80 A3 Assault Rifle in the hands of a Grenadier Guardsman.(Graeme Main/UK Ministry of Defence © Crown Copyright 2014) The British Army is ...

You dwell at length on the troubled history of the SA80 rifle (Ready, aim ... jam, G2, October 10). Following the reports of difficulties in Afghanistan, we conducted a field-firing exercise in ...