Originally Posted by
7n6
When the SCAR is dropped onto concrete by accident it can pretty much break that rear trunnion bracket area. Another is the stock hinge breaking just by someone falling onto it. Peruvian military tested their rifles by dropping their SCAR's from a height of about eight feet onto concrete and the rifles just broke apart. The SCAR is a good rifle except that the design of the rear trunnion bracket mounting system and the stock hinge needs to be overhauled.
If you follow the Battlefield thread, they said the AK's broke the front trunnion on the left side area where the bolt lug locks in something around 100K. They would weld up the trunnions, replace the barrel, springs, and then put them back on the line. AR's they pretty much were replacing bolts, re-staking gas keys, replacing gas tubes, barrels, springs several times over to get them to that number. They said the SCAR and AUG ran the best long term from what I remember. However just firing is part of it, durability in my estimation is something that is severely lacking in a lot of modern weapon designs.
Per Ron at BFV, the Sig 55x series also had some exceptionally good service life in their inventory.
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