You're welcome
The only other interesting bit of info I can add is that apparently no more than 100 SAR-87 rifles were made before Sterling shut down and although BAe (who owned Royal Ordnance by that time) got all the company goods, rights, IP etc. etc., the design rights for the SAR had already been sold to the Singaporeans.
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Originally Posted by Raellus
That's great info, SSC. Thanks.
I suppose one could tweak their T2KU a little to allow UK manufacture of an improved SAR, if the SA80A1 wasn't working out and they didn't think BAE/H&K could realistically fix all of them in a timely fashion (especially with Germany being preoccupied with reunification and plans to boot the Soviets out of Poland). BAE could resurrect the Sterling plans to provide a quicker fix. This is a stretch, but it would be interesting to play with how UK units would be armed in the late Twilght War (a mix of SA80A1s, L85A2s, SLRs, Sterling SMGs, SARs, and possibly AR-18s).
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