XL70E3

The  is a small gun in Fallout 2 and Fallout Tactics.

Fallout 2
The only thing really special about this gun is its superior damage per shot when compared to the AK-112 Assault Rifle. Its range and capacity is inferior.

However, by the time you get it, the XL70E3 will be going up against Advanced Power Armor. As such, it won't be used much. However, against the leather jackets that the Vagrants wear, the 5mm lead will fare much better.

Location

 * This weapon can be rather difficult to get. One of the black haired female Vagrants on the Tanker in San Francisco has it, but you need to kill her for it (you cannot steal it from her). Also, sometimes merchants you meet outside of San Francisco may have this weapon for sale.

Fallout Tactics
This weapon is superior to both the AK47 and the M16A1, but the magazine is inferior to both rifles.

Location

 * St. Louis, south-west corner of the Mutant Base in a crate (near the toxic moat)

Behind the scenes
In our reality, the XL70 was a prototype of the British SA80 family of weapons. It was the first of the prototypes to use 5.56 ammunition (the XL64/5s using an experimental British 4.85x49mm round)

In reality, the SA80 series which spawned from the XL70, to include the L85, L85A1 and A2 assault rifles, the L86 Light support weapon, L22A1 and A2 Carbine, and L98A1 "Cadet Rifle" were in fact made mostly of stamped sheet metal, being, more or less, a bullpup adaptation of the earlier Armalite AR-18. The early guns were anything but reliable, as the Enfield Arsenal had aparently forgot how to design a proper firearm. L. James Sullivan, one of the original designers of several Armalite firearms, stepped in to help with the program, and later, Heckler & Koch (then owned by British interests) further refined the program into its current A2 form, which is a decent enough rifle. The SA80 series are incredibly accurate, winning many international service rifle shooting matches, and it's bullpup format and integrated SUSAT 4X scope were well ahead of it's time.

XL70E3