• CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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      Ah, the silicon valley startup approach.

      You end up with maybe 10% good projects, 70% grifters and 20% projects that seem great to the engineers but have limited practical use.

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          You know, I actually wonder if there’s a universal law at play here. Maybe the same budget and the same ability to project accountability always gets the same return. To fund every good idea in a short period you have to fund a certain amount of bad ones.

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      That’s what they get for letting the EM-2 die in favor of conforming with NATO standardization of 7.62x51mm.

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    Wait, I know I’m late to the party, but is that a bullpup sniper rifle?

    Why.

    I can’t see how a sniper rifle benefits from any of the positives of a bull-pup save for maybe the shorter profile being easier to store. Something a folding stalk would do just as well.

    Why?

    Not at all familiar with the gun. Please tell me it’s a regular rifle intented for a designated marksmen and not a real sniper rifle. I see the optic which pushes me in that direction

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      I mean, the shorter profile with the full barrel gives you the mostest boolet speed in a compact package, best used for urban combat where there’s a lot of walls and cover interfering with a full-size rifle.

      There are bullpup snipers, tho - DesertTech makes a couple and Barrett has the model 99 (more an anti-materiel rifle).

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      The SA80 is one of the early examples of the push to give everyone an optic.

      While the SA80 is a service rifle, there is a prominent bull pup sniper. In the early 80s, Walther made the WA2000. It was intended for urban counterterror operations, so it focused on portability and quick setup.

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        they only made 176 WA2000s and no military wanted them

        e:no shade btw, that gun is super interesting

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        No, the SA80. I’m very familiar with the beautiful L96A1.

        Looks like I was wrong though and the SA80 is supposed to be a service rifle. Look man, I’m tired, allow me some stupidity

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    Shout out to Sine_Fine_Belli who originally posted this over on R*ddit