Contract seeks improved reliability for British army light weapons

Some 22,000 British army SA80 individual and light-support rifles are to be extensively modified under an 80 million pound ($120 million) contract being negotiated by the U.K. Ministry of Defense with Heckler&Koch, a subsidiary of Royal Ordnance. The negotiations follow complaints of unreliability...

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