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From: rats@ihlpm.att.com (David Woo)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Using the rifle suited to the previous war?
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Date: 18 Jan 91 00:43:16 GMT
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From: rats@ihlpm.att.com (David Woo)


|wmartin@STL-06SIMA.ARMY.MIL (Will Martin) writes:
|[...]                       I wondered as I watched it how many of those
|>soldiers would be interested in trading their newfangled weapons in for
|>some old reliable FN FALs like the British army used before they adopted
|>the L85s...

|  Huh?  The FN used to fail to chamber the round if it got grit in the
|ejection port.

(1) The Israelis discovered this during the 1967 conflict.

(2) The "FN-FALs" the British adopted are different from the metric
pattern FALs used elsewhere. Among the differences are a series of
grooves along the bolt to trap grit. Does this help it work better
than standard FALs in grit? Experienced users reply!

(3) Currently being unloaded on the USA market ('cause Bush has screwed
FAL imports) is a top receiver cover that includes an ejection port
cover.