When the British military unveiled the SA80 in the 1980s, it was expected to be a revolutionary weapon system that would ...

A World War One machine gun and other weaponry are among the items lost or stolen from the Ministry of Defence over the last ...

The Liberal Democrats are demanding an urgent inquiry into missing devices and weaponry, saying "sensitive national security ...

The Army is close to scrapping its infamous SA80 assault rifle after years of complaints over its reliability, the Daily Mail has learned. But supporters of the controversial weapon are fighting a ...

I was the clearance." Robert Bryan, prosecuting, said the stolen weapons and parts, from two L96 Accuracy International sniper rifles and two SA80 rifles, were worth more than £20,000.

Adrian Bull, of Devizes, Wiltshire, had denied possessing two "counterfeit" SA80 rifles and a rifle part. Judge Richard Parkes QC ruled Mr Bull, 64, had no case to answer. Three other men remain ...

An SA80 rifle - a type of weapon used by the British Armed Forces in almost all conflicts since its introduction in the early 1980s - was also lost and subsequently recovered, as was a deactivated ...