UK Award Heckler & Koch $95 million Contract For SA80 Rifle Upgrade

[mebiuspower]

not saying that this is the best weapon out there but given public spend and hoops to jump through it might be the least effort upgrade they can make with the money they have

Word from HK is the UK government is highly bureaucratic, the time it takes to adopt a new rifle would've taken extraordinary amount of both time and money, it was simply cheaper and quicker to approve an upgrade rather than complete replacement. Those rifles are worn out and needed to be replaced ASAP.

[acidboogie]

going by the pictures you'd think they awarded the contract to FN...

[Stoner99]

Word from HK is the UK government is highly bureaucratic, the time it takes to adopt a new rifle would've taken extraordinary amount of both time and money, it was simply cheaper and quicker to approve an upgrade rather than complete replacement. Those rifles are worn out and needed to be replaced ASAP.

Yeah. Not much works in the UK anymore.