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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.
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- Gas Operation
- Post-War Progenitor
- Standard Cartridge
- British Move First
- First U.S. Fal
- M14 Gets The Nod
- 2mm Force Feeding
- FN Fal in Combat
- German Denial
In many ways, the FAL was the autoloading equivalent of the immortal Mauser Model 98 bolt action rifle, which saw a similarly diverse level of adoption and production in the pre-World War II era. FN has been a major international military arms factory since the 1890s. The origin of the Fusil Automatique Leger (FAL) goes back to before World War II....
After Browning’s death, Salve continued to work on designs for advanced small arms in several areas. One of these was a gas-operated semiautomatic rifle featuring a rear locking, tilting bolt, and an operating rod mounted above the barrel. Whether by chance or design, the Russian Tokarev rifle of about the same development period also uses the same...
After the war, the rifle was named the SAFN (Semi-Automatic FN) and was adopted by Belgium as the M1949, chambered in .30-’06. Foreign export sales were made of this excellent rifle to Venezuela in 7×57, Argentina in 7.65×53, Egypt in 8×57, Luxembourg, Brazil, and Columbia in .30-’06. The SAFN saw successful combat use in the Korean War with Belgia...
In the post-war period, England and other countries still issued bolt action rifles and were anxious to adopt a self-loading rifle while the US dragged its feet. Meetings as early as 1947 between the U.S., Canada, and Great Britain emphasized the desirability of adopting a standard rifle and cartridge. British ordnance took the exciting approach of...
The British went ahead and officially adopted the EM2 and its .280 cartridge in 1951 but waited to see what the Americans would develop. They came up with a couple of candidate rifles, the T44 based on the M1 Garand and the T47 based loosely on the BAR, and a .30 T65 cartridge that had virtually the same ballistics as the .30-’06 but in a shorter c...
The American T47 rifle was dropped during the testing, and the FN FAL greatly outperformed the EM2. When the US showed interest in the redesigned FAL in .308, it soon became the most promising candidate for a standard NATO rifle. Britain ordered 3.000 FALs for troop trials in late 1953. Similarly, the US ordered 3,000 FN FALs and 200 heavy barreled...
Harrington & Richardson was awarded an educational contract to manufacture 500 T48 rifles to discover if any unforeseen problems might develop from mass production. After extensive troop trials, including arctic tests, the Test Board declared that the T44 and T48 were suitable for adoption. Finally, in the spring of 1957, the US Army announced, “Th...
However, I feel that the absolute travesty was not that the US ignored the FAL but rather that we forced the new .308 cartridge down the throats of the other NATO countries, which wanted to adopt an intermediate assault rifle cartridge instead. In effect, the FN FAL—which promised to be a genuinely superior selective fire assault rifle chambered fo...
The first combat use of the FN FAL was probably by the British in the early ’50s in Malaysia with some of their original test models. It immediately gained a loyal following in that counter-insurgency war. Its first use as an officially adopted weapon was in 1958 by British troops deployed to Cyprus with the L1A1 version of the FN FAL to put down t...
West Germany purchased test lots of the FAL in 1957 and was very happy with the guns. They called their version the Gewehr- 1 or G1. The government had every intention of adopting the rifle to completely rearm the Bundeswehr, Germany’s defensive Army. However, when the Germans approached the Belgian management of FN to obtain a manufacturing licens...
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Shooting and discussing an Israeli variant of the FN FAL. These classic rifles are a joy to shoot. Caliber is 7.62X51.
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May 31, 2024 · Learn about the FAL, a gas-operated rifle chambered in 7.62 NATO that became the standard weapon of many NATO countries. Find out how it evolved from the FN-49, how it works, and how it differs from the AK.
Learn about the history and design of the FN FAL, one of the most-used military weapons in history and the most successful of the NATO rifles. The article covers the origins, variants, and conflicts of the FAL, from the Cold War to the Falklands War.
Sep 28, 2023 · Learn how the FN FAL, a legendary rifle designed by Dieudonné Joseph Saive, became the standard service weapon of 90 countries and the universal NATO rifle. Discover the differences between metric and inch-pattern FALs, the field tests, and the conflicts where the FN FAL was used.
Sep 17, 2021 · 7.62x51mm Rifle Using Short-Stroke Gas Piston System. First Prototype Designed By Dieudonné Saive In 1946. Adopted By Over 90 Countries. Seen Use In Conflicts From Mid-1950s To Today. Plagued by politics and bureaucracy, the development of the FN FAL seemed doomed to fail from the start.
