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Originally Posted by 95th Rifleman
I doubt the L85 could be fixed during wartime, it took a rather comprehensive upgrade program by H&K to create the A2 model and that was done ona peacetime budget.
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I agree. The theory put forth by others was that the problems would have been identified (and acknowledged) in the early '90s (in the T2K timeline), and, with the [continued] Cold War motivator of the Red Army in East Germany, a fix would be diligently and speedily applied from that point on until the TDM or thereabouts.
I'm not sure I buy that. As I understand it, the problems weren't really addressed (or faced up to) until Afghanistan c.2001. If that's truly the case, then why would it be identified and a fix implemented in the early '90s in the T2K timeline?
If my facts are crossed and it was Desert Storm in '91 that shined a spotlight on the L85's issues, then that's a different matter. Personally, I prefer a v1.0 timeline where the First Gulf War never happened. That begs the question whether the problems with the L85 would have been i.d.'ed/addressed before '97.
Either way, I like the idea of the UK manufacturing the AR-18 for at least some of its troops.