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Item#:
RMC-10107G
Price: $14.98
Description:
The development
of the SA-80 (Small Arms family for 1980s) was
started in Britain by the late 1960s, with the
search for the "ideal" small-bore ammunition.
By the mid-1970s British designers developed
a 4.85x49mm cartridge, intended for the SA-80
system, and consequently designed a SA-80 IW
rifle and SA-80 LSW light machine gun for this
ammunition. The 4.85mm LSW appeared in the prototype
form circa 1976, but the NATO trials, held in
the 1978-1979, resulted in adoption of the 5.56mm
cartridge as a common NATO ammunition, so British
designers from the RSAF Enfield redesigned their
weapons for 5.56mm NATO rounds
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