The FM 24/29 was the workhorse in the First Indochina War, as the infantry squad weapon and mounted in jeeps in the SAS style. The FM 24/29 served in the armed forces until after the end of the war in Algeria. The FM 24/29 was replaced by the AA-52 general-purpose machine gun in the 1960s in frontline service, but would remain for a long time as the collective weapon of the regiments of the General Reserve of the French Army, stored in the Mobilizing Centers across the country until the mid-1980s. The FM 24/29 was still in use with the National Gendarmerie regional brigades until 2000-2006.