Enfield rifle may refer to several different weapons, listed below in order of their introduction. Following each are the production start date and bullet or round used.
Enfield Individual Weapon (EIW), a 5.56mm rifle that was the basis of the SA80 family of weapons. As the L85 it replaced the
L1A1 Self-Loading Rifle as the standard British rifle. The SA80 was the last weapon to come from the Royal Small Arms Factory at Enfield Lock. Production switched in 1988 to the Royal Ordnance's Nottingham Small Arms Facility. The current L85A2 version is produced by
Heckler und Koch.
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