I'll take a FAL, some short-shorts, and a one-way ticket to Zimbabwe please.

Question here

Why is the fal used there and not some AK derivative?

That’s....a good question 🤔

According to Wikipedia:

"Following that country's unilateral declaration of independence in 1965, new rifles could not be readily procured from the UK, so Belgian FNs and South African R1s were imported instead."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FN_FAL#Rhodesia

I always found it weird why they would contract out fals

Well now I have a gap in my mustache and my boundaries violated so that's cool

the fals were a mainstay weapon for a longtime, but they're really bulky and heavy

IIRC a lot of Rhodesian weapons and parts were imported through South Africa, that might have something to do with it. The article above also mentions that the FAL was considered superior to Soviet weapons used by the opposition in Rhodesia.

They probably just stuck with it because the brit security forces brought them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcYyjJCuFBM&t=299s

@AndreiT farce tbh

>tfw britannia will never be back

<:pepelaugh:544857300179877898>

🇺🇸

USA here cumming all over your empire

looking at you americans to lead the way now

@AndreiT that's our plan tbh.

We won't care about natives this time. <:sargonfingerguns:568463117856669696>

is donald actually getting impeached

cos if mike pence takes office, fuck

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIalODmFrZk

american kids preparing for graduation

The brazillian army is just relatively recently passing the hand me down FALs to the police

They're replacing it with the IA2, which uses a similar but modernised mechanism in a modernised shape.

Also, we used 5.56 FALs

werent they nato

FAL is normally 7.62

NATO

.303 british

We used the 5.56 version of it

@AndreiT <:jews:308735481552830464>

slightly bigger than 7.62 huehue

This is so fucking cursed.

We're switching to this