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Subject:
RE:UK infantry to get Minimi, after Iraq.
Worcester
11/17/2003 6:37:23 PM
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Since no-one wants to talk design heritage AR-18/SA-80/G-36 and that either RO can't manufacture or there may be a sand problem, let's talk design heritage FAL/G-3. Previous posted comments:-
"G3 has nothing to do with FAL"; "FAL and G3 share no lineage"....well, actually... Ceskoslovenska Zbrojovka Akciova were manufacturing automatic rifles from 1933 using gas/piston, a tilting block/bolt and split sear selective trigger mechanisms - all please note, with the permission of FN who held the serial Browning Patents from 1898 (tilt block/bolt and sear) and had their own program. CZA also in 1936 produced a delayed blow-back modification using locking flaps. After the German invasion of Czechoslovakia, CZA was renamed Waffenfabrik Brun and their existing rifles introduced to the Wehrmacht as G33/40, 98/40 and 43 - the tilting bolt/lock, gas system and split sear mech were used by Haenel/Scmeisser as the basis for the Mkb later MP43, 43/1 (with rotating lugged-bolt) and 44 & StG44; the Vorgrimler Stg45 also adopted the 1936 CZA blow-back mechanism with rollers not flaps. By late 1940, of course, FN were helping, involuntarily.
When in 1949 Franco was scouting for unemployed German engineers, Vorgrimler would be unlikely to wish it known that his team at Mauser did not invent delayed blow-back and that their work was mostly derivative from CZA and FN.
Who cares? Well, it partly explains why FN refused Germany the right to manufacture the FN FAL, leaving no choice but to go back to the old Mauser team at CETME for what really is an FAL with blowback.
And when did I criticize the G-3? Enjoyed using it myself but, as a user, couldn't see much difference with the more widely-used FAL. But we should give credit and acknowledge their common Belgian/Czech heritage. Or did you think it all just "happened" in the 1950's? Hey, the Bren was a Czech design too.
At least we now know where UNITA got all their G-3's. Can we cut the flag waving and talk guns?
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