The British Army’s SA80 rifle will retire by 2030. Project Grayburn aims to choose its replacement and shape how the U.K.

The SA80, officially designated the L85A3, has served as the British military's standard-issue rifle for decades. Now, the Ministry of Defence is seeking a modern replacement. One of the companies ...

The latest variant, known as the L85A3, has been gradually rolled out across the British Army. Manufactured by Heckler and Koch, the SA80 fires the Nato standard 5.56×44 ammunition.

The L85A3 will feature a new streamlined foregrip for better handling and less handguard interference with the barrel in order to improve accuracy.

The SA80, though, has become a solid rifle, and when it is replaced, the veterans at the time will complain about its replacement. This is no real surprise - grunts tend to develop a close ...

The 5.56 mm SA80 rifle has been in the British arsenal since the late 1980s and has undergone various upgrades along the way. The new SA80A3 sports a new durable coating with better camouflage to ...

ISIS killer: After £100m re-vamp hated SA80 becomes world’s most lethal weapon A REVAMPED version of the British Army’s rifle has been hailed one of the world’s “most lethal” weapons by ...

The Army is close to scrapping its infamous SA80 assault rifle after years of complaints over its reliability, the Daily Mail has learned.

Successive upgrades improved the rifle, most notably the L85A2 overhaul by Heckler & Koch in the early 2000s and the current L85A3 version, which has been serving in NATO deployments. But the ...