It's the late 70's early 80's and it's become readily apparent that the L1A1 (FAL) in British Army service is antiquated, in real life the British create the SA80 and the resulting issues from said adoption taint the weapon until it's repair in the early 2000's.
But. But what IF the British saw the StG77 in Austrian service and chose that instead? Would the British change anything? Would the same issues plague the AUG in British service?

No because it's a different gun
Also find a better hobby retard.
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>>64014121
>threading your own post
Rëddit is down the hall and to the left, and stay there.
>hobby
Noguns detected.

>>64014116 (OP)
No. The falklands defense force adopted the AUG in its totally stock form. At most, a mass issued AUG might have a different bayonet lug for the L1A1 one, like how the Australian AUG takes an M16 bayonet.
>Would the same issues plague the AUG in British service?
No. The Australians and Austrians had no particular issues.

>sa-80
>Warrior
>Challenger 2

Why are bongs like this? All they had to do was take notes from Germany. No wonder their country's fucked now.

>>64014152
>No. The Australians and Austrians had no particular issues.
Hydrostatic lock for over the beach operations (Australia) but would have been a problem with any contemporary rifle. They also got heavy when rails were first added. Not L85 heavy, but heavy, and the Australian ones fixed it (but the Austrian ones still haven't).

>>64014116 (OP)
They'd probably add a full-auto lockout to the selector like the Irish did.
They'd probably have Enfield manufacture the guns in-house and they'd probably find a way to fuck it up—the COVID-era stock cracking issue shows that the design doesn't tolerate deviation from the TDP like, e.g., the AK does.
If they swallowed their pride and just imported the guns from Austria, it'd probably work great.

>>64014116 (OP)
Armatard thread

>>64014116 (OP)
If they made Enfield build their own in-house model I can see them fucking it up real bad. The L85's base design is less of an issue than the absolutely fucked manufacturing that the Enfield factory was doing at the time.

>>64014152
Early production ADF F88s had manufacturing faults primarily in breaking and launching the gas-plug due to incorrect tolerances and hardening.
Thats why even the first major rollout of the so-called 88 didnt happen until 91-92.
>SAF Lithgow didnt buy the full SDP data-package and thought they knew it all from producing L1A1s and could just reverse-engineer it all from the initial data and test samples. After 12months of trying to bullshit they bought the data package.
In your Wotif world, Enfield would probably make the same mistakes as they did with the XL70 trials guns to L85s

>>64015758
The L85's base design is serviceable at best. In a world where it and the FAMAS were available commercially like the AUG, the L85 would definitely be "the other one" of the legacy bullpup trio, like the M14 is vs. the G3 and FAL.

>>64016815
>M14
Considering it's still in service, heavy, and loved by troops you ain't wrong.

>>64016815
I don't think so. Both France and the UK declined severely as small arms exporters in the 80s, people just stopped buying their guns even before they completely shut their state arsenals down. Enfield was privatized around the same time the L85 was adopted, so in principle the rifle would have been available for sale to at the very least fellow commonwealth countries if solicited, it just never happened. Similarly, the existence of semi auto Mas .223 rifles indicates the French weren't opposed to exporting the Famas, they just never got a buyer.

>>64016938
"What if the L85 and FAMAS were commercially available like the AUG is?"
>"But they aren't commercially available"

>>64014116 (OP)
Don't you ever get bored of this constant stream of butthurt, Armatard?

am I retarded for wanting to use an AUG for HD?
also best bullet weight for 20" barrel for maximum fragmentation in chest cavities?

>>64018610
HD is one of its strong suits since the superb balance allows you to freely use your support hand for tasks like opening doors, corralling family members, and yapping w/ the 911 operator while still having the gun up. Absolutely throw an EOTech and white light (on the accessory rail, with a tailcap switch to use with your firing hand thumb) on that bitch and start blasting
The default AUG twist rate is 1:9 so there's nothing stopping you from loading up some 40–45gr varmint deleters and laying waste to the first 6–10" of flesh it runs into

>>64014116 (OP)
The Aug is the only modern rifle with a worse trigger than the sa80.

>>64014190
There he is, our resident Russian agitprop turd-muncher. Have a reply, it's almost making me sad see nobody giving you the attention you crave

>>64018936
Can you elaborate on the circumstances that led to you having trigger time on both, as well as what pre-modern rifles have worse triggers than them?