The FARA 83, Argentine Republic Automatic Rifle (Spanish: Fusíl Automático República Argentina) or FAA 81, Argentine Automatic Rifle (Spanish: Fusil Automático Argentino) was a rifle locally designed and developed for the Argentine Army in the 1980s. The AK-47 is the worlds most common assault rifle. ... The Argentine Army (Ejército Argentino, EA) is the land armed force branch of the Argentine military and the senior military service of the country. ... The U.S. National Prototype Kilogram, which currently serves as the primary standard for measuring mass in the U.S. It was assigned to the United States in 1889 and is periodically recertified and traceable to the primary international standard, The Kilogram, held at the Bureau International des Poids et... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... A millimetre (American spelling: millimeter), symbol mm is an SI unit of length that is equal to one thousandth of a metre. ... This article does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... The word calibre (British English) or caliber (American English) designates the interior diameter of a tube or the exterior diameter of a wire or rod. ... U.S. Military 5. ... In firearms terminology, an action is the system of operation that the firearm employs to seal the breech (in a breech-loading firearm), and to load consecutive rounds. ... Gas-operation is one of the firearm actions used in automatic firearms. ... Rotating bolt of a Sig 550 rifle. ... Rate of fire is the speed at which a specific firearm or artillery piece can ]] per minute (RPM or round/min), or rounds per second Note that heat and ammunition concerns mean that most automatic weapons are unlikely ever to sustain their cyclic rate of fire for a full minute... A guns muzzle velocity is the speed at which the projectile leaves the muzzle of the gun. ... Metre per second (U.S. spelling: meter per second) is an SI derived unit of both speed (scalar) and velocity (vector), defined by distance in metres divided by time in seconds. ... The Argentine Army (Ejército Argentino, EA) is the land armed force branch of the Argentine military and the senior military service of the country. ... The 1980s refers to the years from 1980 to 1989. ...

History

The FAA project started in the middle 80's, when the Proceso de Reorganización Nacional was still in the government and it was ordered by the DGFM (General Government Directorate for Military Procurements, or Direccion General de las Fabricaciones Militares) to replace the old FMAP FSL (Argentine license-made copy of the FN FAL) still in service with Argentine troops. The prototype was made in 1981, but the production didn't started until 1984, wich it continued until 1990. It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Dirty War. ... The Fusil Automatique Leger, or Light Automatic Rifle (LAR). ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with prototyping. ... 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... MCMXC redirects here; for the Enigma album, see MCMXC a. ...

Problems

By the late 80's, when Carlos Menem became the president of Argentina, the country was undertaking a several economical problems. Also, England had closed his military market to Argentina and prohibited to build modern weapons. This two factors forced Menem to cancel a lot of projects (Condor I and Condor II, FARA 83, SAIA 90, etc) and to close some factories (TAMSE, which was making the TAM; [[Astilleros Domecq Garcia, the best submarine shipyard, the creator of the TR-1700; etc) and forcing DGFM and FMAP to stop the manufacturing and the shipping of the new rifle. The first production roll stopped after 1193 rifles were made, however, another production roll, until 1990, got the FARA-83 back to production; it is unknown how many rifles were made, but the most of the Argentine Armed Forces is still today armed with the FSL-FAL rifle as the main rifle and the FARA 83 as a secondary rifle. This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... President is a title held by many leaders of organizations, companies, trade unions, universities, and countries. ... Carlos Saúl Menem (born July 2, 1930) was President of Argentina from 8 July 1989 to 10 December 1999 for the Justicialist Party (Peronist). ... This article is about the Argentinian/German/Middle Eastern Condor ballistic missile program. ... The FMA SAIA 90 is an air superiority aircraft designed and planned by the FMA (Fabrica Militar de Aviones) with collaboration of Dornier in the mid 80s, which will be the last stage of ACA project, a project started by the Proceso de Reorganización Nacional for an Argentine... TAM (From Spanish:Tanque Argentino Mediano or Argentine Medium Tank) is a medium tank designed by Thyssen-Henschel of Germany. ...

Main Caracteristics

The FARA-83 was a good design, mostly insipred to the HK33 for the working principle and to the Israeli Galil for the external look. Features a folding buttstock and tritium sights for aiming in bad light conditions; fits proprietary 30-rounds magazines, very similar to the H&K ones, and has a trigger group for Safe/ Semi-auto/ Full-autofire.

External links

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• FARA 83 site in spanish