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Originally Posted by Excalibur
Speaking of the Brits, I think a few of us would know about how slow they were in adopting firearms to catch up with the time. After WWII when the US and Russia already were on assault rifles with full auto, it took them nearly a decade after to adopt the L1A1 rifle and that was in semi. Took them longer to get the SA-80 and then a while after that for them to fix the problems with it. And I keep reading about the problems with the US when it comes to the infantry rifle, development and deployment, the British had a lot of problems in that area.
I always joke on that's the reason why their SAS is the best in the world of Special Forces, because their regular army seem to suck mostly because of not getting what they want equipment wise.
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The British army sucks now? What's next? The canadian army sucks too?
Also, the SA80 is an awesome rifle. So does the L1A1. And the US only got an full auto service rifle in 1957 and even then, the M14 sucked ass on full automatic because of the huge recoil, so the Soldiers and Marines used it as a semi-auto rifle ala the M1 Garand. The soviets got the AK-47 in service in 1949. In 1949 the service rifle of the US was the M1 Garand. We only got a full-auto gun that was able to be fired in full automatic in 1964 when the XM16E1 became the standard rifle of the US Army. The Marines' service rifle was the M14 untill 1968 when it got replaced in the USMC by the M16A1. So we got stuck with an two semi autos untill 1964. The British got an semi-auto in 1954.