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Encyclopedia > Dieudonne Saive

Dieudonne Saive was a Belgian small arms designer who designed FN-49 and FN-FAL. The FN Fusil Automatique Leger (light automatic rifle) is a battle rifle produced after the Second World War by the Belgian armaments manufacturer Fabrique Nationale de Herstal (FN) and adopted by many nations for their armies. ...


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Browning Hi Power Pistol (832 words)
It fell to Dieudonné Saive to rework the design and produce a gun that satisfied the desires of the military.
Saive made numerous crucial changes to the pistol, dispensing with its complicated contours, removable plate-mounted lockwork, interrupted screw breech bolt and internal striker.
Meanwhile, Dieudonné Saive fled Belgium and eventually settled in Toronto, Canada, helping the John Inglis Co. produce Hi Powers there for Nationalist Chinese, British, Canadian and Greek forces.
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The design team was headed by Dieudonne Saive, a brilliant arms designer who was Chief of Weapon Design and Development at FN.
Saive and Ernest Vervier had prototypes of an FN assault rifle made by 1948.
At FN, Saive and his team redesigned the FAL to accept the NATO round, turning it into a true battle rifle.
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