Talk:FAMAS

message: I know there is a anti recoil system inside de cross(stock), in the top portion. it has a spring/lever/thingy. I and 2 guys did some dissasebling and cleaning of this along with a caporal chef in the foreign legion. So i know it's there. That's why it has such a small recoil. But there's no info on the wiki page. I'll try and find some schematics.  Maybe someone else can add something too.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Choice777 (talk • contribs) 09:56, 14 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Anti recoil

message: Has there/Will there ever be a FAMAS using the 7.62 NATO calibre round?, Just asking becouse there has never been a 7.62 NATO Bullpup rifle. I was thinking it would make a great sniper weapon. User: EX STAB 28 March 2007.
I know there is the AWC Bullpup but it is just a bullpup stock conversion for an M14.
:AFAIK, there's no plan to make a 7.62mm version of the FAMAS. Current improvement plans are the FÉLIN system. However, Kel-Tec has recently (Q1 2007) introduced their 7.62x51mm RFB (Rifle, Forward-ejection, Bullpup) semi-auto rifle. breversa 15:00, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: "there has never been a 7.62 NATO Bullpup rifle" -- not actually true.  The British EM-2 was made in 7.62mm as well as the original .280. HughesJohn (talk) 13:36, 24 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  7.62 FAMAS? 

message: What is the thing in front of the Carging handle on the FAMAS.
--DanMP5 03:47, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: This device's name is "alidade de tir courbe" (≈ "indirect fire sight"). It is used to aim the rifle when using rifle grenades in indirect fire (rifle grenade direct fire uses a U-notch sighting system situated within the carrying handle). The firing position is prone, with the rifle held skywards like a mortar. Provided distance is accurately measured (taking elevation into account), accuracy is about 5m radius, and the range goes from 60 to 340m. breversa 15:00, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Object 

message: ignoring my obvious spelling error in the title, shoudl rifle really be capitalized? almost any other articals dont have it like this artical. just wondering what you guys think(ForeverDEAD 23:35, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rifle in parantha-c's 

message: Can we have a list of variants please? Ryan4314 (talk) 10:49, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Variants 

message: Is it odd that such a fine weapon has not seen more exports?  I thought that former Francophone countries would have adopted it.  Is the French government not advocating its sale, or is the world market just too flooded with AKs?  Antarctica moon (talk) 07:37, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: First, you'd have to agree that a rifle that requires Steel cased (nonstandard) ammunition to function reliably, is a 'fine' weapon.  Then you'd have to agree that a firearm that costs twice as much as competative models like the HK33 and three or four times as much as MAP M16's... wow, perhaps ten or twenty times as much as a AK... well is it worth it?  Yes, to those few US citizens who bought them in the 80's and a few Arabs countries.  Personally, I love the design and would love to have seen a non-French version that costs lest. --Nukes4Tots (talk) 13:51, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  Good points.  That's why adoption has been low.  Antarctica moon (talk) 04:04, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: AFAK a small quantity has been exportated to Djibouti's gendarmerie and presidential guards...  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.2.91.63 (talk) 18:42, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Exports 

message: I saw FAMAS in the hands of a Sri Lankan soldier (probably a commando) in a CNN-IBN video. Can someone confirm ??
It's not FAMAS. Sri Lankan soldier was holding a Chinese QBZ 97.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.231.45.101 (talk) 06:23, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Addition to Users 

message: How would one pronounce FAMAS? i think it's Fah-mahs but i keep hearing Fay-muss and faa-muhs. 71.162.23.46 (talk) 03:17, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Yup it's like you pronounce it.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.66.196.237 (talk) 12:27, 11 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronunciation? 

message: There is a photo on www.militaryphotos.net (page 7 of African Militaries thread) of Cameroonian soldiers parading with FAMAS F-1s.SASH155 (talk) 02:35, 11 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cameroon another FAMAS user. 

message: There's some ambiguity with the rifling. It states that because of 1:12 rifling it (F1) can only use French made SS109. But optimal rifling for SS109 is 1:7. 1:12 is optimal for M193. Does anybody know anything about this? Grizzly chipmunk (talk) 14:20, 14 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rifling 

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thread_title:  Pop culture 

message: I removed all the unsubstantiated and un- or poorly-sourced comments on the rifle's unreliability, and all rumor, then updated the section to be provable and recent facts on target with the section title. Hope this works for everyone.  Shoobe01 (talk) 19:00, 10 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Future replacement 

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message: Taking the fact that Forgotten Weapons writes it as FA-MAS as justification to do so in turn is grossly WP:UNDUE, when it is in contradiction to the overwhelming majority of sources already used in this article. When 30 to 40-something other sources are in contradiction with one, that is usually a good indication that the singular source may not be ideal for this particular claim, especially when its author later backpedalled on using the hyphen altogether. Loafiewa (talk) 20:50, 13 June 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: "FA-MAS" is the correct way of writing the name of this rifle. It's not just Forgotten Weapons that writes it this way, hyphenating it is the correct way. The link I provided is one of the official manual (pdf) of the FA-MAS. Markings that can be found on the rifle is also written as "FA-MAS". Official documents, manuals and promotional content both in English and French writes it as "FA-MAS". Guns & Glory (talk) 02:03, 14 June 2023 (UTC)

text: Considering that neither the FFL nor the French Army write it this way that claim seems dubious to begin with, but it doesn't matter. Wikipedia runs on WP:SCHOLARSHIP and due weight, the 'official' name matters far less than the name used by the majority of reliable, secondary sources. Loafiewa (talk) 13:13, 14 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Correct way of writing the name of the rifle: FA-MAS 

message: Why are there two pictures in the lead section of this article of soldiers carrying weapons other than the FA MAS in an article exclusively about the FA MAS. A picture of its alleged replacement is not necessary when a link to the corresponding article will do. 70.107.192.191 (talk) 12:46, 11 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pictures