{"id":23211,"date":"2023-09-17T08:00:37","date_gmt":"2023-09-17T13:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/17\/gulf-war-sa80-homemade-foregrip\/"},"modified":"2023-09-17T08:00:37","modified_gmt":"2023-09-17T13:00:37","slug":"gulf-war-sa80-homemade-foregrip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/17\/gulf-war-sa80-homemade-foregrip\/","title":{"rendered":"Gulf War SA80 Homemade Foregrip"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mejs-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jxUZowTogEc?autoplay=1&#038;mute=1&#038;controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>I went down a bit of a rabbit hole with this video. After spotting an L85A1 with an ad hoc front grip in some footage from the Gulf War I did some digging. There&#8217;s a rich history of British soldiers fashioning home made foregrips so we take a look at a few of those too. <\/p>\n<p>Check out Robbie&#8217;s channel &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/@\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/youtube.com\/@<\/a>RMMilitaryHistory?si=aEqobz0ODc_KtYYA<\/p>\n<p>Be sure to check out our accompanying article for this video here &#8211; <br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/armourersbench.com\/2023\/09\/15\/gulf-war-homemade-sa80-l85a1-front-grip\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/armourersbench.com\/2023\/09\/15\/gulf-war-homemade-sa80-l85a1-front-grip\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you enjoy our work please consider supporting us via Patreon, TAB is a viewer supported channel and any help is very much appreciated!  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After spotting an L85A1 with an ad hoc front grip in some footage from the Gulf War I did some digging. There&#8217;s a rich history of British soldiers fashioning home made foregrips so we take a look at a few of those too.&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/17\/gulf-war-sa80-homemade-foregrip\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gulf War SA80 Homemade Foregrip<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":23212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}