Well, I've just got back from field firing the SA 80 A1. Between myself and others of our happy breed, we successfully turned the best part of 400,000 live into brass.
SB was a Range Officer, so she can tell better than me, but, stoppages were the order of the day. The guys absolutely cleaned the weapons, to an extrememly high standard. The SF guys were firing all day and all night, with no real problems, but at section, platoon and company level, more than once, the rifle guys were firing bursts, while the LSW gunners were sorting out stoppages, misfeeds etc etc etc and vice versa
I have never seen a weapon overheat so fast. On one section in Defence shoot, I cabbed about 150 rounds, and had to go straight into overheating drills.
Sorry, but when I have the arabic hordes screaming straight towards me, the last thing I want, is gunjams, mag misfeeds or the weapon so hot I risk a cook-off.
So just how good are the A2 mods?
Or can we at least get a heavier barrel mod with cooling gills, or whatever it is they do to stop the thing getting too hot to hold comfortably?