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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.
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: [27] 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.
Initially, in the 5.56 version, a telescopic polymer stock was designed, with a modern design, very similar to the one used in the FN SCAR rifle, and in the 7.62 version, a collapsible polymer stock very similar to that of the M964A1 Para-FAL, with modern design.
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With the adoption of new standard cartridges, IMBEL closed the factory and moved the machinery to their campus. The headstamp has 5-pointed stars at 10-, 2- and 6-o'clock, the digit of the month at 7 o'clock (e.g., 1 = January, 11 = November), and the 2-digit year at 5 o'clock (1898 = 98).
The Army's arsenal of firearms (individual and collective) was estimated at 299,300 weapons in 2010: 52,100 pistols, 500 revolvers, 9,100 submachine guns, 89,000 bolt-action rifles, 143,300 automatic rifles and 5,300 medium machine guns. 1,800 heavy machine guns, 800 81-milimeter mortars and 400 60-milimiter mortars were counted separately as light weapons. [1]
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.
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 ...