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The British Army has routinely fitted such sights since the 1950s/60s as a part of their infantry doctrine.
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Now that is
really amazing news to me, since my SLR only had iron sights in the 70's, as did every other one I saw even in other units. (Actually, the SA series introduced these sights, apart from the cadets version which has iron sights and no auto facility).
Plenty of rifles (such as the SA80, Steyr, XM8) already have accuracy 6 to allow for scoped sights, fitted as
standard issue.
So I presume you are asking for some we may have missed to be so equipped?.
If so - then it would be handy to have a list of OOB and weapon slot ID No to have a look at, where these sights are shown to be standard issue. (which it is not, for e.g. the M16 family - in which case you may want to suggest a scoped version in a new slot, and suggest which units should be modified to use same, and/or new units created to use it, which can be a problem in crowded OOBS such as say the USA one). Also - while going through the OOBS, remember that the same weapon may have different names (e.g. stg77, Austeyer). And then, allow for some third world armies which may not have the version with such kit perhaps.
Since that may be a big list - it would probaly be best to make up a .TXT file of those change requests/suggestions , and attach it to your post rather than try to fit them into a single post.
Cheers
Andy