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Originally Posted by perardua
A couple of the NCOs I was talking to on the range were of the opinion that the L119 was no more reliable than an L85A2, but offered the advantages of being able to be fired from the left shoulder, being not obviously British (plenty of people use Diemacos, whilst the L85 is rather distinctively ours), and most important of all, being different from the rest of the forces, which they admitted was part of the draw of being SF.
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Peradua,
I could see this, the main advantage of the C8/L119A1 is that it was a proven design that was available immediately as a replacement for the L85A1, not that it was more reliable (once the SA80's kinks were worked out).
Leg,
I'm not going to get into the concerns with the early AUGs, as these mainly exaggerations and the AUSteyr does not belong on a "worst weapons" list. (There were a few changes that did improve things drastically but the design was sound.) Personally, I'd have been fine if Canada chose the AUG over the AR-15, but there it is.
Tony