I love this blog and its readers! Just yesterday I blogged that I had heard that the New Zealand Army was evaluating the FN SCAR rifle. Today a reader emailed in a photo, dated December 2009, of a Kiwi solider using a SCAR during a training exercise.
[ Many thanks to Lightening for emailing me the link. ]
I have heard rumours from my army buddies that the HK 417 was also trialled.
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0Yup. That fh is clearly a blackout. Does sf even produce fh’s?
0 0Ajay: FN ships the Mk 16 and Mk 17 with an AAC flash suppressor.
0 0Spiff: That’s a modern Surefire flash hider that’s threaded to accept a Surefire Suppressor.
0 0What’s with the kudzu catcher flash hider? Old times are not forgotten! Maybe FN, and most of the other manufacturers, need to get their products into the hands of combat veterans, not the brass retirees, but the USERS, before touting their goods…
Spiff
0 0With the Aussies adopting the HK417 i think this puts pressure on the Kiwis to go HK too.
0 0I had heard that weird two-color scheme was some kind of factory mistake from the first run. I guess they’re making them that way on purpose for some reason?
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Yup. That fh is clearly a blackout. Does sf even produce fh’s?
I have heard rumours from my army buddies that the HK 417 was also trialled.
Ajay: FN ships the Mk 16 and Mk 17 with an AAC flash suppressor.
Spiff: That’s a modern Surefire flash hider that’s threaded to accept a Surefire Suppressor.
With the Aussies adopting the HK417 i think this puts pressure on the Kiwis to go HK too.
What’s with the kudzu catcher flash hider? Old times are not forgotten! Maybe FN, and most of the other manufacturers, need to get their products into the hands of combat veterans, not the brass retirees, but the USERS, before touting their goods…
Spiff
I had heard that weird two-color scheme was some kind of factory mistake from the first run. I guess they’re making them that way on purpose for some reason?