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    The SA80 (Small Arms for the 1980s) is a British family of 5.56×45mm NATO service weapons used by the British Army. The L85 Rifle variant has been the...
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    such as the Chinese QBZ-95, Israeli IWI Tavor, French FAMAS and British SA80. The origin of term "bullpup" for this configuration has long been unclear...
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    rifle Sterling SAR-87 SA80 Leader Dynamics Series T2 MK5 SR 88 List of bullpup firearms List of assault rifles "British Enfield SA80 Part 2: XL60 series"...
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    British service rifle was finally adopted some years later in form of the SA80 assault rifle, which remains in service today. The British Army entered World...
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    under-carried launcher to be mated to the SA80, and never acquired. The necessary step in equipping the SA80 rifles with an underslung grenade launcher...
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    be seen in the thumb grooves found on the cocking handles of the British SA80 family of rifles; these provide extra grip when charging the weapon, preventing...
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  • Kickstarter, and raised $800,256. Headstamp's second book, Thorneycroft to SA80: British Bullpup Firearms, 1901–2020, authored by Jonathan Ferguson, raised...
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  • and it is said to have influenced many later weapons such as the British SA80, the Singaporean SAR-80 and SR-88, the Belgian FN F2000, the Japanese Howa...
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    the .280 as "lacking power", but the bullpup layout was used later in the SA80. A somewhat similar Australian concept was the KAL1 General Purpose Infantry...
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    forward in a manner similar to the British SA80. Instead of the sheet metal receiver of the AR18 and SA80, the Bushmaster M17S uses an extruded 7075-T6...
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