Originally Posted by
MountainRaven
AFAIK, the manufacturer (RSAF-Enfield) of the SA80 is out of business, which is why the UK had to get H&K to do the A2 upgrades in the first place. So the life of the SA80 is finite at this point, anyway.
At the time RSAF actually owned HK during the A2 upgrade. HK had recently been sold mostly because of the failure of the G11 to be adopted after German reunification created many financial hardships for the country. Other projects such as the OICW that involved heavy R&D costs and were ultimately not adopted also led to the sale of H&K.
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