ID of these weapons?

platoonDaddy · January 12, 2011, 11:30pm

Are they: FAMAS 5.56mm assault rifle / FN P90 AEG

Jan. 12: French soldiers with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) are seen at the scene of a suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/01/11/suicide-bombing-afghan-capital-wounded/?test=latestnews

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Belmont31R · January 12, 2011, 11:32pm

FAMAS

TOrrock · January 12, 2011, 11:35pm

Yup, FAMAS G1’s.

Those things are getting a little long in the tooth. The G1 uses a proprietary 25rd. magazine.

The newer G2’s use STANAG magazines, and don’t have a trigger guard.

Delayed recoil operated, not gas operated.

120mm · January 13, 2011, 2:02am

Speaking of long in the tooth, the French are still carrying that pre-WWII pistol.

I’m not impressed with a lot of their gear, but I fairly lust after a VBL of my very own. Armored amphibious dune buggy anyone?

chadbag · January 13, 2011, 2:18am

Something like an H&K roller locking system or something totally different?

TOrrock · January 13, 2011, 2:22am

Not roller locked, but lever locked, kind of but not quite a Luger or Maxim toggle.

It’s French, what can I say…

kal · January 13, 2011, 2:30am

Pretty sure it’s a Kiraly lever delayed blowback system. Similar to some Thompsons that used this mechanism also.

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