RE: SA80-A2: it's all the soldier's fault

["Lee Williams" <grizz@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: MathesonT@aol.com [mailto:MathesonT@aol.com]
Sent: 02 August 2002 21:18
To: millenniums-end-l@firedrake.org
Subject: Re: SA80-A2: it's all the soldier's fault

 With the Royal ordnance factory in Nottingham closing and HK about to
become a German company again, the UK no longer has a small arms industry.
Going to have to hold those SA-80s together with gaffer tape or go foreign.

Rob


Huzzah! Does this mean the MoD might actually HAVE to buy weapons that work
now? Diemaco C-8 or HK G36 (at last)?

Lee.

ps I still rate the SLR...oh yes. Too big for fast deployment from APCs?
Make the bloody vehicles bigger then :-)