Thread: At least it's a nice colour green - NZDF choose AR to replace Steyrs

Originally Posted by R93

Weapon. Caliber is irrelevant.

Accessories? We are talking Nz Army yeah? Name one accessory employed by a private infantryman besides specialty optics or 40 mm in the light infantry role. There are none.


As for grunt proof the Army does not buy seperate weapons for a parade ground drill, weapons drill and the like. They get hammered everyday of service. Any soldier would find that obvious.

Over cleaning, highly repetitious TOET testing and the like, required by teeth arms, fuck a weapon more than any operational service.






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Well as you are referring to weapon, then you are indeed very misguided. They Steyr moves through the close country a tad better then your standard AR primarily due to overall length, the center of gravity due the bulpup design enables the non-master hand to move from the weapon to move foliage and the like without loosing stability of the weapon.

As for "grunt proof" 29 years and counting is a bloody good innings for a modern weapon systems that's for sure, if they were as bad as you remember then we would not have many left in service. But I still have a problem with the term as insinuates that a "grunt" does not take care of his gear. Milspec is just that, it is not bomb proof as with any weapon system.

Accessories... Acog, J-dot, Pec-15, PRR remote switch, Torch, UNS sight or T2 for a start. Things have progressed a shit load since you got out in 2001. Contrary to popular belief the New Zealand soldier is one of the best personally equipped soldiers in the world.