United Kingdom - Forgotten Weapons

SA80 History: L22A2 and Experimental L85 Carbines

May 24, 2017 Ian McCollum 24

Armament Research Services (ARES) is a specialist technical intelligence consultancy, offering expertise and analysis to a range of government and non-government entities in the arms and munitions field. For detailed photos of the guns in […]

Book Review – The Lee Enfield, by Ian Skennerton

May 21, 2017 Ian McCollum 4

Ian Skennerton is a leading authority on British rifles, having written extensively on Sniders, Martinis, Enfields, and more. This specific book, “The Lee Enfield” is the most recent iteration of his compendium of Lee-Enfield information, […]

SA80 History: L85 A1 vs A2 (and the coming A3)

May 20, 2017 Ian McCollum 105

Armament Research Services (ARES) is a specialist technical intelligence consultancy, offering expertise and analysis to a range of government and non-government entities in the arms and munitions field. For detailed photos of the guns in […]

SA80 Series: The Pre-Production XL85 and XL86

May 17, 2017 Ian McCollum 12

Armament Research Services (ARES) is a specialist technical intelligence consultancy, offering expertise and analysis to a range of government and non-government entities in the arms and munitions field. For detailed photos of the guns in […]

Book Review – The Last Enfield: SA80 the Reluctant Rifle

May 14, 2017 Ian McCollum 14

Available from Amazon: Available from Collector Grade Publications: Since we are in the midst of an ongoing video series looking at the development of the SA80 weapons family, I figured this would be a good […]

SA80 History: XL70 Series Final Prototypes (Individual Weapon and LSW)

May 13, 2017 Ian McCollum 23

Armament Research Services (ARES) is a specialist technical intelligence consultancy, offering expertise and analysis to a range of government and non-government entities in the arms and munitions field. For detailed photos of the guns in […]

SA80 History: XL60 Series in 4.85mm

May 10, 2017 Ian McCollum 41

Armament Research Services (ARES) is a specialist technical intelligence consultancy, offering expertise and analysis to a range of government and non-government entities in the arms and munitions field. For detailed photos of the guns in […]

Could a Tankgewehr Really Take Out a British MkIV Tank?

May 6, 2017 Ian McCollum 40

The Tankgewehr antitank rifle was developed by the Mauser company and adopted by the Imperial German military as an emergency measure to counter the introduction of tanks to the WW1 battlefield. The question is, did […]

SA80 History: The First Mockups (Sterling and Stoner)

May 5, 2017 Ian McCollum 67

Armament Research Services (ARES) is a specialist technical intelligence consultancy, offering expertise and analysis to a range of government and non-government entities in the arms and munitions field. For detailed photos of the guns in […]

The Very First Troop Trials SMLE Rifles at James D Julia

April 4, 2017 Ian McCollum 17

One of the British lessons form the Boer War was that the distinction between infantry rifles and cavalry carbines was becoming obsolete. In 1902, they would initiate troop trials on a new short rifle pattern, […]