In the pantheon of military firearms, France’s service rifle stands as an often-underappreciated marvel of engineering and ingenuity. Developed in an era when most nations had already made significant strides toward adopting semi-automatic rifles, it distinguished itself as a robust and reliable weapon that performed admirably across diverse battlefields, from the humid jungles of Indochina…

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