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The FN FAL (French: Fusil Automatique Léger, English: Light Automatic Rifle) is a battle rifle designed in Belgium by Dieudonné Saive and manufactured by FN Herstal and others since 1953. During the Cold War the FAL was adopted by many countries of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), with the notable exception of the United States.
F2000: 5.56×45mm NATO bullpup assault rifle, part of a system with a computerized sight and 40mm grenade launcher or 12 gauge shotgun. FS2000: Semi-automatic sporting version of the F2000 rifle. FAL: Fusil Automatique Léger, 7.62×51mm NATO battle rifle. One of the most widely used rifles in history, having been used by over 90 nations. [7 ...
The Australian heavy-barrel L2A1 was also known as the "automatic rifle" (AR). The L2A1 was similar to the FN FAL 50.41/42, but with a unique combined bipod-handguard and a receiver dust-cover mounted tangent rear sight from Canada. The L2A1 was intended to serve a role as a light fully automatic rifle or quasi-squad automatic weapon (SAW).
Berkut rifle: KBP Instrument Design Bureau.308 Winchester 7.62×54mmR 9×53mmR Russia 1998 Big Horn Armory AR500 Big Horn Armory .500 Auto Max United States 2010s Breda M1935 PG Rifle: Breda: 6.5×52mm Mannlicher-Carcano 7×57mm Mauser Italy 1931 Browning 22 Semi-Auto rifle: FN Herstal.22 LR Belgium: 1914 Browning BAR: Browning Arms Company Belgium
2 million + Belgian FN FAL, [37] 1.15 million British L1A1 [38] ... Semi-automatic rifle 295,840 Chauchat: Light machine gun 262,000 Heckler & Koch G36: Assault rifle
By the end of World War II, however, semi-automatic rifles had been largely superseded in military usage by their select-fire counterparts - weapons such as the AK-47, FN FAL and M16 limited the viability of widespread deployment of semi-automatic rifles. U.S. Marine with a Barrett M82
It was the standard-issue rifle of the South African Marine Corps and South African Air Force, as well within the South West African Territorial Force as a substitute for the R1 Rifle (FN FAL) until it was replaced by the R4 assault rifle in the 1980s [54] The rifle's stock would soon break down in the heat and become loose, so a replacement ...
About half of FN-49s were produced as selective fire automatic rifles, but the small 10 round box magazine limited the usefulness of the fully automatic feature. [6] The FN-49 found itself in direct competition with a number of more modern rifles such as the Heckler & Koch G3 and Fabrique Nationale de Herstal's own FN FAL, resulting in limited ...