FAMAS, the French Bugle

Famous Guns has nice write up a about the french assault rifle, the FAMAS (Fusil Automatique, Manufacture d’Armes de St. Etienne), and it’sPicture 30
history.

Development of this rifle began in 1967, under the leadership of the Paul Tellie, a French arms designer. This new rifle was intended to replace in service the MAS Mle.49/56 semi-automatic rifles, MAT-49 submachine guns and some MAC Mle.1929 light machine guns. First FAMAS prototype had been built in 1971. French military began to test this rifle in 1972-73, but, in the meantime, France adopted a Swiss-designed SIG SG-540 5.56mm assault rifle as an intermediate solution. FAMAS rifle was adopted by the French in 1978 and since then became a standard French Army shoulder fired small arm.

More here.

(Photo from wikipedia.org)

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Steve Sep 13th 2007 military Tags: , 3 Comments

3 Responses to “FAMAS, the French Bugle”

  1. Nickon 14 Sep 2007 at 12:24 pm link comment

    Hello!

    Thanks for linking and sharing!

    You have pretty interesting blog and many articles are really great.

  2. SNMPon 08 Jan 2008 at 11:48 am link comment

    Nobody in french army call the FAMAS Bugle, that an journalist invention

  3. Steveon 08 Jan 2008 at 11:51 am link comment

    SNMP, thanks for the info

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