Bullpup firearms

Bullpup configuration modern firearms is where the operating system is located on the weapon and magazine behind the trigger and in addition to the shooter 's face , so there is no wasted space for butt as in conventional designs . This allows shorter length firearm 25 % of other weapons with the same barrel length so while maintaining accuracy with a long barrel , and reduce the total weight of the weapon itself .

The origins of " bullpup " the term has been in use in world war one but started in production during the 70s



Steyr AUG (1977 ) is often referred to as the first successful bullpup , has been used by the armed forces of more than twenty countries , and became the official rifle for Austria and Australia . Steyr AUG very forward to 1970 , the Steyr AUG famous for Highly reliable , lightweight , and accurate , Steyr AUG show clearly the potential of bullpup layout . Thus encouraging the development of the FAMAS (1978 ) , the adoption by the French armed forces are not as successful as the Steyr AUG mesik but make new FAMAS bullpup .


After the British FAMAS bullpup sisitem interested so that they develop the L85 , which began operating in 1985. Once there is some problem of early versions of the weapon, the British government finally handed over to the design of the famous firearms company Heckler & Koch L85A2 they developed into a successful and used officially by the army Inggirs

After learning of Performance bullpup on the market , Israel Military Industries developed a bullpup rifle hers : Tavor ( TAR - 21 ) . Tavor is very light , accurate , and reliable fully ambidextrous ( designed for a standard to avoid damaged in desert conditions ) , and the demand for Tavor increased in other countries , particularly India . Tavor has much in common with the SAR 21 Singapore and Vector CR - 21 South Africa . Other Bullpups been adopted recently by Iranian troops with weapons KH2002 ( Khaybar ) and China with QBZ-95 .

And other countries also became interested in the success of a bullpup rifle , one of Indonesia which has begun to develop PINDAD SS3 which protetipenya been exhibited in several exhibitions of weapons . about 9 state official is a bullpup weapon .