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IMBEL-made receivers have been much in demand among American gunsmiths building FALs from "parts kits". IMBEL in 2014 offered the FAL in 9 versions: [26] M964, the standard length semi-auto and full auto. M964 MD1, short barrel semi-auto and full auto. M964 MD2, standard length semi-auto only. M964 MD3, short barrel semi-auto only.
The 7.62 NATO variant still uses the FAL operating system (tilting breechblock) versus the 5.56's rotating bolt. The IA2 makes extensive use of polymers, and features a non-reciprocating cocking handle on the left side of the receiver. The charging handle is the same as in the FAL, though it is not the folding version featured in the para-FAL.
IMBEL was founded on July 16, 1934, in the city of Itajubá, Minas Gerais, Brazil. [8] [9] The original factory was designated Fábrica de Canos e Sabres para Armas Portáteis (English: Barrels and Sabres Factory for Portable Arms) and later Fabrica de Itajubá (FI), which directly involved the Brazilian Army in the production of military material.
FN FAL: variants used comprised the Belgium-built standard FAL (50.00 model) and its folding stock version (50.61 model), the Brazilian IMBEL M964 and the South African Vektor R1, mostly provided by Portugal and South Africa; issued to all the branches of the Rhodesian Security Forces from 1966 to 1979.
The MD-2 and MD-3 rifles are the result of redesigning the FN FAL to use the 5.56×45mm NATO round in place of the FAL's 7.62mm NATO chambering. The MD-2/MD-3 series externally resembles a short-barrelled FAL, but with an M16 magazine. Early MD-1 prototypes retained the FAL-type tilting bolt with a locking shoulder immediately behind the ...
The former service rifle, the FAL and its variants, is giving way to Imbel's IA2. [3] Total service rifle demand to phase out the FAL family has been reported in the press as in the 140 thousand [4] or 200 thousand range. [5] Individual protective equipment includes aramid helmets [6] and bulletproof vests with no standard supplier or material.
FN FAL (and derivatives) Battle rifle Belgium: 5,000,000 7,000,000 [36] 2 million + Belgian FN FAL, [37] 1.15 million British L1A1 [38] 1 million + Indian 1A1, [39] [40] 250,000 South African R1 [41] (plus 30,000 sold to Rhodesia), 230,000 Australian L1A1 and L2A1 ~200,000 Brazilian IMBEL M964, [42] ~150,000 Austrian StG 58, [43] ~65,000 ...
A disassembled Mauser action showing a partially disassembled receiver and bolt. In firearms terminology and law, the firearm frame or receiver is the part of a firearm which integrates other components by providing housing for internal action components such as the hammer, bolt or breechblock, firing pin and extractor, and has threaded interfaces for externally attaching ("receiving ...