The SAR-21 came out soem time before the TAR-21 did, but I
greatly suspect both countries traded a lot of notes. For your
information, there is also quite a bit of spark of genius in
singapore, and they dun have to be graduates.
The SAR-21 is an amazing rifle, people from all over the world who
tried it, love it and gave rave reviews about it, only we
Singaporeans seem to pick every fault with it but when given a far
inferior system like the M-16 we instantly gloss over it and adapt
ourselves to it's shortcomings. Singaporeans suffer from a "made in
singapore syndrome" where they are rapidly against anything that is
locally manufactured and will be a harsh critic on it, the opposite
of the American "not made in USA syndrome" where they will accept
their own systems, no matter how flawed and costy but reject using
designs from other countries which are far superior and
effective.
In all fairness, the SAR-21 is NOT a weakness, short of the OICW,
it is one of the most advanced infantry assualt rifles in the world
today, and if you bothered to take an objective view on it, you'll
realize that it is far superior to the M-16 which the conservative
soldier hang to like toddlers to their "blankies".
The SAR-21 is far more forgiving, durable, easy to maintain,
egronomic, and most importantly, EAST TO SHOOT AND ACCUCRATE! And
they have the stats to prove it. In SAR-21 shoot runs, wowo kings
who could not shoot anything with the M-16 were soon hitting
targets out to 300 meters with regularity with the SAR-21, with a
calculated 90 percent
increase in accucracy. In fact it is so good that the army has
decided to train all future batches of infantry on M-16s for the
reason that the SAR-21 is so good and user friendly that it
promotes bad shooting habits and weapons discipline.
It's just blind bias and "weapons from other countries must be
better" attitute that appears to be most of the actual reason
behind the supposed "criticism" of the SAR-21. The M-16 was a total
reject nightmare when it was first introduce to US troops back in
vietman, now we see people going "I'll stick to my trusty M-16".
Hello people, wake up your idea. Dun be like those marines I've
seen who claim in their incredibly idotic conservative ignorance
that they can do as much with their "trusty" M-16/203 combo as the
OICWS... yeah right...
The SAR-21 is a far more advanced, and capable system then the
M-16, and any of Singapore's potential enemies better be wary of
it.