l85

L85, or "Land Service, 1985", is a standard assault_rifle of the British Armed Forces. Originally named SA80 (standing in for "Small Arms for the 1980s"), it is a bullpup assault rifle evolved from an earlier British EM-2 prototype designed to test the viability of intermediate cartridges as well as taking design cues from Armalite's AR-18 rifle. The L85A2 variant remains in service today, as well as other variants such as the shorter-barreled L22A2 and L86 LSW, its light machine_gun variant.