During the Cold War, AK was the most common rifle in the Eastern camp. What rifles are equipped in the western world? In addition to M 14, the most widely equipped is the famous "right-hand man of the free world" FN FAL.
The designer of FN FAL is dieudonne Seifer. You may not have heard of this man, but you must know his old teacher, that is John Moses Browning. Saif is his student in FN.
1926 After Browning's death, Sefer stood on the giant's shoulder with the teacher's last wish, and developed Browning's powerful pistol with a bullet capacity of 13. Browning HP pistol was successful and became a classic, which was purchased and produced in many countries.
Later, Belgium was occupied by Nazi Germany, and Sefer and a group of designers went into exile in enfield Arsenal in England. In fact, Sefer began to develop semi-automatic rifles as early as 1930s, but it was interfered by the Germans. It was not until the liberation of Belgium in 1944 that he returned to FN Company to concentrate on research and development, and then he introduced the SAFN semi-automatic rifle, which was put into production in 1949 and was called FN49.
As a semi-automatic rifle after the war, it did not catch up with World War II. Although many countries have bought it, its reputation is not very high, and it has also been to the Korean battlefield.
Although FN49 is not well-known, Sefer has developed a new automatic rifle based on the existing technology of FN49, which uses 7.92×33 mm short bullets on STG 44.
The British are very happy to hear that, because they are also studying new guns. The new gun is the unsupported EM 1 and EM2, and the new bomb is the British .280 medium-power bomb. The British made it clear that Sefer also had a.280 caliber gun. Sefer modified the gun in his hand and named it a light automatic rifle, abbreviated as FAL.
At this time, NATO is trying to unify ammunition standards. Americans look down on British .280 rifle bullets and EM2 and FAL using them. They insist that T65 with 7.62×5 1 mm is full of power and forced to be popularized. In the end, Churchill also compromised, and the bullet is up to you. The gun had to be FAL. Americans say it's good! Turn around and use M 14 as the standard rifle.
That's useless except the United States. Almost every country in the western world has FAL. Canada took the lead in using FAL as a standard rifle and named it C 1 rifle. Later, C 1A 1 rifle was improved on the basis of British FAL.
The West German version of FAL is G 1 rifle, but the issue of production license was not settled later, because the shadow brought by the German army in the two world wars lingered, so I simply won't sell it to you! No The Germans got technology from Spain to make G3 rifles.
In addition, there are Austria, Luxembourg, Britain, Brazil, Israel, Australia and so on. Since the introduction of 1953, 10 has been used and produced in more than 90 countries, and it is also deeply loved by mercenaries.
FAL in the world can be roughly divided into metric system and English system, and Britain has made many changes after testing. FN In order to thank Britain for the special exemption of patent fees, the British version of FAL was named L 1A 1 SLR.
The main difference between this version, which is widely used in Commonwealth countries, and the public version is that it castrates the fully automatic function and can only be single-shot. To tell the truth, this 7.62×5 1 mm bullet is really not very easy to press. In addition, the handle of the wire drawing machine is set to be folded, and the male plate is basically a fixed cylinder.
Also canceled the empty warehouse hang-up function, except for the Canadian version. In addition, I would like to mention that the Indian version of FAL-Isabel 1A SLR is an imitation, but the third brother did not buy a production license from FN Company.
FAL has also taken root in various countries, and gradually there are paratroopers who fold stocks, as well as various derivatives. There is a SA58 rifle in the game, but it is also FAL.
This is a civilian model improved by an American company called DSA on the basis of the Austrian version of FAL-STG 58. Later, it also began to modernize. Leather railings, wooden guards and gun butts are all fabricated, which can be shorter, lighter and easier to control.
FN FAL can compete with AK AR in terms of output and popularity, but its reputation in reality is less than half that of them, and it is no longer well-known. Perhaps the 7.62mm NATO bomb limited his infinite possibilities, but it also made him enjoy the scenery in western countries for decades, and finally became the legacy of the Cold War, only ending up with the title of "the right-hand man of the free world".