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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.
After the Army realized that IMBEL MD-97 could not meet the basic requirements to replace the FAL, IMBEL began to modernize the MD-97 project, but the simple modernization of the project, which used many FAL parts, was not enough to meet the needs of the Army. Special forces Imbel IA2 Soldier of the Border Brigade posing with an IA2
The IMBEL MD series (MD-1, MD-2, MD-3 and the recent MD-4) of assault rifles are the standard-issue rifles of the Brazilian Army. History.
The MD97 is a selective-fire or semi-automatic assault rifle that has been produced by IMBEL in Brazil since 1997. It is based upon the IMBEL MD2, which is itself based upon the FN FAL. A large group of National Public Security Force soldiers armed with MD97s Two National Public Security Force soldiers armed with MD97s
IMBEL also produced a semi-automatic version of the FAL for Springfield Armory, Inc. (not to be confused with the US military Springfield Armory), which was marketed in the US as the SAR-48 (standard model) [24] [25] and SAR-4800 (made after 1989 with some military features removed to comply with new legislation), starting in the mid-1980s. [26]
IMBEL MD: Assault rifle Brazil: 1985–present IMBEL IA2: Assault rifle Brazil: 2012–present AR-M1: Assault rifle Bulgaria: 2000–present Colt Canada C7: Assault rifle Canada 1984–present Colt Canada C8: Carbine Canada: 1994–present Colt Canada C9: Light machine gun Canada: 1980s–present Licensed copy of the FN Minimi. Norinco CQ ...
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Two black soldiers of the Rhodesian African Rifles (RAR) manning a FN MAG General-purpose machine gun (GPMG) aboard a patrol boat on Lake Kariba, December 1976.. The Rhodesian Bush War, also referred to as the Rhodesian Civil War, Zimbabwe Independence War or Zimbabwean War of Liberation, as well as the Second Chimurenga, was a military conflict staged during the Decolonisation of Africa that ...