Tag Archives: Thales

Thales selects Steyr SL40 grenade launcher for EF88

January 21, 2014 · by · in ADF, Arms & Munitions ID, Small Arms & Light Weapons · 2 Comments

Thales Australia have announced today that they have selected the Steyr SL40 grenade launcher to be paired with their EF88 assault rifle, which is being offered to the Australian Defence Forces under Defence’s LAND 125 Phase 3C program. The EF88 was originally offered with the Madritsch Weapon Technology ML40AUS grenade launcher, however a source close to […]

EF88 Video: test firing the EF88 and ML40AUS

October 26, 2012 · by · in ADF, Small Arms & Light Weapons, Travel · 5 Comments

A few more videos from my recent trip to Thales Australia in Lithgow, New South Wales. In these videos, Rob Maylor is test firing the EF88 out to 600m, and the Madritsch ML40AUS at 150m. In the first video, Rob is using the 20″ barrel EF88 (equivalent to the F90M, or Marksman variant) with a […]

Hands-on evaluation of the new EF88 (F90) assault rifle

August 19, 2012 · by · in ADF, Ammunition & Ordnance, Small Arms & Light Weapons, Travel · 6 Comments

By N.R. Jenzen-Jones The author firing an EF88 with 20″ barrel (with 4x ACOG and Harris bipod) out to 600yds. Photo courtesy of Julian Elliott (Thales Australia). Last week I was in Lithgow at the invitation of Thales Australia, and had the opportunity to conduct a test and evaluation of the new EF88 assault rifle […]