Sa80 riffle license#

'Waning Cohesion: The Rise and Fall of the FDLR–FOCA' (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on January 12, 2011. In the Shadow of a Cease-fire: The Impacts of Small Arms Availability and Misuse in Sri Lanka (PDF). ^ 'SR Podcast No.3- Turkish Glockalikes, Singaporean Rifles in Yemen, and the Sudanese Defense Industry'.'Somali Pirate Gun Locker: An Oddball Assault Rifle, at Sea'. The Politics of Destroying Surplus Small Arms: Inconspicuous Disarmament. The Yugoslav Wars (1): Slovenia & Croatia 1991–95. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 2, 2014. The Central African Republic and Small Arms: A Regional Tinderbox (PDF). ^ Military Small Arms of the 20th Century, 4th Edition, by Ian V.^ The Sterling Years: Small Arms and the Men, James Edmiston, ISBN 1848844379.'Surveying the Battlefield: Illicit Arms In Afghanistan, Iraq, and Somalia'. The successor to this weapon is the SR-88. As a result, the new Singapore rifle design closely resembled the LAR externally while having AR-18 elements internally. While Sterling could not legally sublicense the AR-18, their LAR design was available. In the early 1970s, Sterling Armaments Company engineers had developed their own 5.56 mm rifle design, the Light Automatic Rifle (LAR), but this had been shelved when Sterling acquired a manufacturing licence for the US-designed Armalite AR-18 assault rifle.

Sa80 riffle license#

Due to the requirements of the license agreement, CIS had to request permission from Colt and the US State Department to allow any export sale, which they rarely granted. Export sales of the M16S1 were not a viable option. However, the domestic rifle requirements were not sufficient to allow Chartered Industries of Singapore (CIS, now Singapore Technologies Kinetics) to economically maintain operations at its rifle factory. Due to difficulties in obtaining the rifles from the United States, the Singaporean government purchased a license to domestically manufacture the M16 rifle, which was then designated the M16S1. In the late 1960s, the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) adopted the AR-15 as their main service rifle.