Military Tuesday : What’s That on the Army of Two’s Coat of Arms
I was watching the E3 2007 video for Army of Two when I noticed something interesting at 57 seconds (the trailer is 1:07 mins long).
© EA
The coat of arms shown at that point in time seems to be a modified US Coat of Arms (can’t really make out the Latin inscription) but that’s not the main point of interest. The most interesting point for me are those two assault rifles on the left and right of the double-headed bald eagle. What could be their real-life equivalents? (assuming that they are based on real weapons since Army of Two is touted to be pretty realistic - they even roped an ex-Navy SEAL as a consultant (see 1UP.com interview) for this game)
Since this is not one of A.C.E’s WTF posts so I’ll just provide what I think are the possible choices. Nevertheless, if you have a better idea of what they actually are, please leave a comment below because I could always be wrong 
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The right one is probably the carbine version (L22A1 to be exact since L22A2 has Picatinny rails) of the British Enfield SA80 assault rifle (known as L85A1/L85A2 in service) or a L85A2 with the handguard replaced by a vertical foregrip because the barrel seems a bit too long for a L22A1 (below).
© LEI Ltd (Taken from Modern Firearms)
The one of the left (see below) is much more tricky since it could be any AR15/M16 variant.
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Update (30/07/2007): An anonymous commenter has identified it as a Robinson Armament XCR, or more specifically the XCR CQC variant with the 11.5″ or 14.5″ barrel as seen on the SecurityArms page. The following information is therefore inaccurate but you may still find it interesting though.
I looked through several catalogs and found these likely matches:
- 10.5″ barrelled version of Heckler & Koch 416 - however the 10.5″ barrel seems too short and the 14.5″ barrel is far too long.
© DSA Inc
- DSA Inc’s SA58 OSW - Looks pretty close “out of the box” but not that likely considering that it’s based on the venerable FN FAL which isn’t that well-known among most gamers.
© Magpul Industries - Magpul Masada - the closest choice as the 14.5″ barrelled version seems to be the correct length plus it looks suitably futuristic (always a plus point when selecting the weapons for computer games)
© H&K (Taken from Modern Firearms)
Only way to confirm is to wait for more details on the game or to have a glimpse of the stock of the rifle. You can usually differentiate between different models via the stock shapes assuming that the stocks have not being swapped out yet.
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At the first sight of it, I was certain that it was the Robinson XCR. Both it and the image use a full-length (from iron sight to iron sight) “12 o’ clock” Picatinny rail, plus the rail covers and the slots above it look about right.
http://www.robarm.com/XCR_L_16_LS.gif
I think you might be right - seems that someone also identified it as the Robinson’s Armament XCR in Wikipedia.
Thanks for your assistance - I’ll go update the article now.
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