{"id":29554,"date":"2026-05-15T06:36:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T11:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/15\/emergency-battle-sights-susat-sa80-l85-akb-23-vs-steyr-aug-a1\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T06:36:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T11:36:40","slug":"emergency-battle-sights-susat-sa80-l85-akb-23-vs-steyr-aug-a1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/15\/emergency-battle-sights-susat-sa80-l85-akb-23-vs-steyr-aug-a1\/","title":{"rendered":"Emergency Battle Sights: SUSAT (SA80\/L85\/AKB-23) vs Steyr AUG A1"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mejs-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/N7D1PQNgnoE?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Become a member on YouTube or support us on Patreon! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/BlokeOnTheRange\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/BlokeOnTheRange<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Emergency Battle Sights (EBS; *not* the &#8220;iron sights&#8221;) on the SUSAT used on the SA80 (L85A1, L85A2, CETME-L, AK-4) are not well understood. And a bit craptastic. Those on the Steyr AUG A1 with the Donut of DOom sight are a bit better, but also not great.<\/p>\n<p>Here we test the SUSAT EBS with an Aly &#038; Kaufmann AKB-23 (AKB23) tribute and compare with an OG Steyr AUG A1.<\/p>\n<p>Buy Me A Coffee: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buymeacoffee.com\/BlokeOnTheRange\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.buymeacoffee.com\/BlokeOnTheRange<\/a><br \/>Teespring: <a href=\"https:\/\/teespring.com\/stores\/bloke-on-the-range-store\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/teespring.com\/stores\/bloke-on-the-range-store<\/a><br \/>Instagram: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/blokeontherange\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/blokeontherange\/<\/a><br \/>Facebook: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Blokeontherange\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Blokeontherange\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Become a member on YouTube or support us on Patreon! https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/BlokeOnTheRange The Emergency Battle Sights (EBS; *not* the &#8220;iron sights&#8221;) on the SUSAT used on the SA80 (L85A1, L85A2, CETME-L, AK-4) are not well understood. And a bit craptastic. Those on the Steyr AUG A1 with the Donut of DOom sight are a bit better,&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/15\/emergency-battle-sights-susat-sa80-l85-akb-23-vs-steyr-aug-a1\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Emergency Battle Sights: SUSAT (SA80\/L85\/AKB-23) vs Steyr AUG A1<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":29555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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-29554","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\/29554","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\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}