SAKO ARG, Brit's new service rifle?
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Nothing to do with the us. The Brits now are terrible now with their defense industry. Expensive and quality issue. They talk big with boutique weapons and make small quantities. When SHTF in real war they won’t be able to make any in quantity and collapse quickly. Like Canada , they have limited money but they prioritize the use of the industry as a corporate welfare program - mass production keeps the industry base. Boutique weapons are fancy corporate welfare in the name of “investment “ - weapons and equipment are “investment” in peace time but they are consumables in real conflicts
The ARG S40 Reservist variant is apparently €2,990.
The SAKO ARG S 40 Reservist Rifle (Limited Edition)
expensive. Would be nice to have a side by side comparison with the SA 20 and SA 15.7 diemaco rifles we could purchase not all that long ago.
It is, but in the euro land everything is expensive especially Finland / Sweden where this was originally designed/marketed for.
This thing is nothing special - closer look it is the same technology aluminium forging ( I think I saw the forge line in the lower) and an extrusion tube handgurad held on by a single tension bolt that "clamps" the extrusion tube over the barrel nut . Like literally the US commerical market cranked out a 200,000 of these a year. They may use a different steel for the BGC and bolt ( carpenter is a US company so there is no reason to buy from the US, and a plastic ejection port cover.
It looks like a nice rifle and a quality AR, but not a 4800 USD AR in the commercial world. That handguard attachment design is...blah. Unimpressive, but they say it passed the drop test will have to take their words for it.
Saying that, someone can find out the bidding document and the scoring criteria. Price weighting and scoring play major role. Military price is not the same as the price paid by joe at gun shops.
