The bullpup concept was first tested militarily in 1901 with the British Thorneycroft carbine, but it was not until the Cold War that more successful designs and improvements led to wider adoption. In 1977, the Austrian Army became the first military force in the world to adopt a bullpup rifle, the Steyr AUG , as a principal combat weapon .

A bullpup layout for a British service rifle was finally adopted some years later in form of the SA80 assault rifle, which remains in service today.

The Falkland Islands Defence Force adopted the Steyr AUG (another 5.56×45mm bullpup rifle) [22] which served until 2019 when the Defence Force adopted the L85A2 as part of a wider effort to align its weapons, training and procedures with those of the British Armed Forces.

2017年10月26日 · It's difficult to identify the first use of the term "bullpup" as it applies to firearm configurations, but the concept was first seen in the bolt-action Thorneycroft carbine of 1901. Since the current British L85 service rifle is one of the world's most recognizable small arms of this style, it seems only appropriate that an English gunsmith ...

2002年11月1日 · The British developed two competing Bullpups, the EM-1 and EM-2, strikingly similar in appearance and each capable of firing their new round. The Bullpup configuration was adopted because it allowed a full-length barrel, a feature which assisted accuracy, in a weapon of short overall size. Work on the EM-1 and EM-2 started in earnest in 1947.

British experts started with the development of the new cartridge, a cleverly designed intermediate round that would be effective up to 600 yards in an infantry rifle and up to 1000 yards in an universal machine gun, while being noticeably lighter and generating less recoil than any existing service rifle round of the allied forces (.303 British...

2020年4月14日 · Over the weekend Headstamp Publishing launched their second book – Thorneycroft to SA80: British Bullpup Firearms, 1901–2020, written by Jonathan Ferguson of the UK’s Royal Armouries. The new book launched its Kickstarter campaign on the 12th April, it follows Ian McCollum’s book on French military rifles which has recently begun to ...

2022年6月10日 · Today, we will dive into the world of British Bullpups and examine their evolution in the British Empire. To start, we need to go to 1866 with the first repeating bullpup rifle. What’s fascinating about the Curtis rifle is that it’s a pump-action, drum-fed rifle designed in a …

The United Kingdom had been considering the idea of a bullpup service rifle since 1944. Two designs, the EM-1 and the EM-2 were developed by the British as a replacement for separate pistol, submachine gun and rifle. The choice of bullpup design was a necessity to keep the accuracy up while keeping overall length down.

2020年7月16日 · In the mid-1980s, the United Kingdom became the first major NATO power to adopt a so-called “bullpup” assault rifle. The L85A1 Individual Weapon was unique in that it placed the rifle’s operating...