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When picking a gun, what would your primary consideration be?


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Love Charger

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Mags are not interchangeable.. The locking butts in the mags are different in size. I am saying about the small bulging at the side of Magazine which locks into the rifle. In LAR/Imbel one its small compared with that of SLR. Also thr base plate of both mags are having different sizes.
Imbel is way better than SLR in terms of accuracy and reliability.
Mod ji , I have a question for you .
We see the pakis modernized the g3 , can't we get the license manufacturing of fn fal modifications from Brazil?
For the standard issue of the army , since ak 203 is now as good as dead ?
 

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Mod ji , I have a question for you .
We see the pakis modernized the g3 , can't we get the license manufacturing of fn fal modifications from Brazil?
For the standard issue of the army , since ak 203 is now as good as dead ?
Thats upto imbel to decide, but question is why reinventing the wheel.. Its all of 60s tech. Seems that insas flashhider was inspired by that of Brazilian LAR
 

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Mod ji , I have a question for you .
We see the pakis modernized the g3 , can't we get the license manufacturing of fn fal modifications from Brazil?
For the standard issue of the army , since ak 203 is now as good as dead ?

They are modernising G3 doesn't mean it's better than current days Ar 15 rifle.

We have got our hands on Sig now so better we move forward with it.

Regarding AK 203 deal it's not dead but work in progress don't read too much into sanction etc specially for small arms.
 

Johny_Baba

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Mags are not interchangeable.. The locking butts in the mags are different in size. I am saying about the small bulging at the side of Magazine which locks into the rifle. In LAR/Imbel one its small compared with that of SLR. Also thr base plate of both mags are having different sizes.
Imbel is way better than SLR in terms of accuracy and reliability.
Yes that was what i was expecting,

our 1A SLR is based on L1A1 SLR of Britain so it's got those "inch" pattern .308 magazines in it that has locking tabs like this compared to standard "metric" pattern FALs in 7.62 NATO
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so one can't fit Inch pattern SLR magazine in Metric pattern FAL, although it's still possible to fit Metric pattern FAL magazine in Inch pattern SLR, albeit it would be a kind of loose fit but yeah possible...
 

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Seems that insas flashhider was inspired by that of Brazilian LAR
ah nope,
i mean in looooong way it's true but still not directly applicable,

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INSAS flash hider is derived from FN CAL // FN FNC's flash hider of rifle grenade era times...and in looong way it was based on Metric pattern FAL's flash hider of certain models adopted for using rifle grenades

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FN FAL's flash hider, gas ring at end
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FN CAL's long pattern flash hider, notice gas ring for rifle grenades
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FN FNC's long pattern flash hider, likewise,
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^all of these flash hiders are of same length (albeit in 5.56 NATO ones FN CAL and FN FNC's have slightly thinner profile in centre as shown) and can accept FAL's NATO standard hollow-tube pattern grenades that goes on it, can also accept FAL's NATO standard hollow-handle bayonets etc...

later when Rifle Grenades became kinda obsolete things as underbarrel grenade launchers started emerging they simply shortened these flash hiders and removed gas rings from them, as apparent in certain later pattern FALs and FNCs (FN CAL never got that change as it was a failure in terms of sales despite influencing lots of stuffs and FNC took its place afterwards)

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DS Arms made short pattern flash hider for FAL, notice no gas ring here and shortened length containing only flash hider part

FN FNC's flash hiders, long vs short
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short one on FNC
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^So, yeah, it came down this way from FAL to CAL and FNC,

INSAS also followed similar path,
how it happened on INSAS though ? in next part
 

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