The UK military has over 100,000 SUSAT and more 30,000 LDS weapon sights in its inventory, which are due for replacement.

They said that snipers from a NATO ally in eastern Europe was 'mind blown' by the UK still using the old rifles. About 500 snipers in the British army have a L115A3 rifle and they feel underfunded ...

The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD ... are running concurrent with a wider effort replace the SA80 battle rifle in British Army service under Project Grayburn. Project Grayburn is thought likely ...

The Army is close to scrapping its infamous SA80 assault rifle after years of complaints ... spent on developing the SA80 and arming UK forces with it in the Eighties. Ministers ordered a review ...

In one of the longest confirmed kills in history, a Ukrainian sniper shot dead a Russian soldier from more than two ...

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It is set to launch in 2027 and will replace individual schemes run by the Royal Navy, British army, and Royal Air Force ... to boost defence spending as the UK readies itself to provide ...

Top Army sources insisted they could cope, but warned it would leave no slack if the UK’s enemies attack elsewhere. The US push for peace in Ukraine has been called a 'gift to Putin', easing ...

When news that the UK would be at the front of the queue to provide troops for a Ukraine peacekeeping force, possibly as many as 20,000, a contact from army headquarters at Andover messaged me ...