When was famas invented

All rifles are shipped with a sling and bayonet. With the exception of the "SMG" variant, all rifles come with a deployable bipod. FAMAS used in the program are modified with lowered carrying handles and extra equipment to integrate all aspects of combat into a single system. Gun Wiki Explore. On the Wiki. About and Community. Manual of Style Sandbox Copyrights. Explore Wikis Community Central.

Register Don't have an account? History Talk 1. Categories Delayed blowback firearms Assault rifles Bullpup. Universal Conquest Wiki. Assault rifles. The famas apparently has several issues regarding the extraction of brass cases forcing the french army to used steel cased cartriges with a bullet inadapded for the twist of the rifling, which causes a severe degradation in accuracy as well as supply complications.

The extraction problems seem to be caused by the extremely high rate of fire and a violent extraction cycle this last one, common to unfluted delayed-blowback designs.

I wanted to know if it is solely due to the high rpm or if it can be improved on by fluting the chamber. I was an American in the Legion. I never had a problem with it. I was in the Legion and I fully disagree! FAMAS has loads of stoppages due to excess of gas in the chamber, loose mags very poor quality FMAS mags , dust around the chamber, and the list goes on and on. It was a very reliable weapon in all conditions.

About years, I can say the best weapon is a russian AK, this gun is the best, ever. Anyway, there are no good machine if the soldier can not carry yourself. It does means, if you clean your machine and repair constantly, your machine will work as a good machine.

And at French Foreign Legion, we are always cleaning our machine, cleaning, repairing, what ever, as a same as Navy Seal, but anyway, there are no better machine as AK, Water, Desert, Forest, Ugly and Dirty, always working…. In general, a lot of french engineers tend to like inovative and elegant solutions, the are a bit perfectionist in their own way and a lever delay blowback action is both a the same time.

It is ingenious and there is some kind of beauty on a system that cannot be understood even a drawing or stetches or any visuals, you need knowledge just like quantum mechanics. The is a lot of comment about what a lever delay blowback action can and cannot do, all usual pros and cons that is supposelly attached to this mechanism. I think the is a common misconception about how we can evaluate a technical product. There is a general tendency to misunderstood a principle with its application.

At 3,61 kg 7. M16A1: 2. The FAMAS F1 was design from the begining for a certain weight and a certain type of cartridge just like any other rifle. If you fire a badly made round on a rifle or even a round not exactly designed for this rifle , the is a good chace that it will not go so well.

It is sensitive for sure, just just like any high performance automatic mechanism, I put aside the Maxim machine gun and alike. A gas port automatic rifle may have a lesser sensitivity with a gas port valve like the FAL for instance.

Nobody complain about the sensitivity of the M16 when they change from M to M, they just buy new ones. The next time the french army and the same for the others will have to change the ammunition, what kind of solution they have to figure out beside pass an order to HK and wait again 10 years for 90 rifles?

By the way, the TKB was considered and usually had very good rating after extensive test, even better than the AKM, more accurate,better control on automatic mode, less expensive and no gas port to clean.

In conclusion, lever delay blowback action might be consider as a good technical approach and the FAMAS is a good example of this. You can and they did modify the buffer design and can change the buffer weight and spring strength. The gas port is not adjustable but the size of the port is different depending on barrel length. I have heard of ammunition having to meet not only a maximum pressure limit but also having to meet a specific port pressure range in some contracts.

It is quite possible to shoot. The accuracy will probably have a sweet spot among the bullet weight but the gun will cycle them all. The lever delay system works because the lever is working at a mechanical disadvantage. This means that when the bolt is pushed back a small mount the larger mass must move further and faster so it acts like a much more massive bolt in a straight blow back submachine gun. In Paris two years ago I saw some soldiers carrying the FAMAS with a forward pistol grip with a couple of push buttons and a small screen.

Any information about this? Look at , , , and in this video. I m French, ex army and can give a proper advice about FAMAS F1 reliability , as i was personally involving shooting hundreds of different FAMAS rifles, on the field and as range officer , was monitoring firing of thousand of rifles with all sort of soldiers, experimented or not, professional or conscription poormotived guys as well during 10 years.

Usualy extraction works fully, exceptionnaly damaged case struck in chamber halfway: press the charging handel and bump the gun on floor, extraction done. Exeptionally, maybe one or two time in 10 years case still half way struck and fater several bolt move by force, case rim damaged: easily solved, one or two minute: remove stock and bolt and reverse extractor from right to left or oposite to have a non damaged rim case side and move the bolt back again; Other option, using a metal rod always one available somewere in a truck… and hammering on, problem solved.

I never see an extraction problem with correct ammo, execpt if chamber with sand, whatever the chamber was clean or very dirty. By pulling this cylinder up and out, this assembly is pushed out by the ejector spring and disassembly is complete.

A feature of the FAMAS is that once the rifle is disassembled, it can be easily converted into a left-handed configuration by swapping the extractor and the spacer from one side to the other on the bolt face. Once the rifle is reassembled, a plastic cover snaps over one of the ejection ports on either side of the stock. Quite ingenious. The rifle also has the ability to fire several types of grenades of two designs, one of which is for use with blanks, the other designed to actually be shot with standard ball ammo utilizing a bullet trap to launch the grenade.

The barrel has a series of ribs for use in adjusting the range of the grenades. When turned on the rifle's side, there is a lever just forward of the op-rod handle that can be set at 45 degrees or 90 degrees as the rear portion of the grenade sighting system. The rifle can be shot on single, three-round burst or fully automatic, with the select lever located on the bottom rear. On full auto, the rifle seemed quite controllable and at meters put most rounds into a silhouette. Having only rounds to play with eliminated an endurance test, but there were no stoppages or problems of any kind.

Granted, that is a pretty minimal amount of operation to judge by, but my French allies tell me the rifle has few stoppages and they are quite happy with it. The integral bipod was also a nice feature, though I was too stubborn to try it, preferring the standard prone position in non-combat situations, bipods are cheating; in combat, if you ain't cheatin', you ain't tryin'. Give a Gift Subscriber Services. See All Other Magazines. See All Special Interest Magazines. All Guns and Ammo subscribers now have digital access to their magazine content.

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