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FARA 83

The FARA 83, Argentine Republic Automatic Rifle or FAA 81, Argentine Automatic Rifle was a rifle locally designed and developed for the Argentine Army in the 1980s.

History

The FAA project started in the middle 1980s, when the government was still controlled by the National Reorganization Process. The DGFM ordered a replacement be designed for the old FMAP FSL, a FN-FAL license built in Argentinia. The prototype was made in 1981, but the production didn't started until 1984, which continued until 1990.

Problems

By the late 80's, when Carlos Menem became the president of Argentina, the country was undergoing several economic problems. Also, England had closed its military market to Argentina and prohibited to build modern weapons. These two factors forced President Menem to cancel several projects, including the Condor I and Condor II, the FARA 83, and SAIA 90. He was also forced to close armament factories, including TAMSE, which was making the TAM, the Astilleros Domecq Garcia, the primary submarine shipyard, the creator of the TR-1700. The first production roll stopped after 1193 rifles were made, however, another production restarted in 1990, got the FARA-83 back to production; it is unknown how many rifles were made, but the most of the Argentine Armed Forces are still armed with the FSL-FAL rifle as the main rifle, while the FARA 83 as a secondary weapon.

Main characteristics

The FARA-83 was a good design, mostly inspired by the HK33 for the internal function, and externally by the Israeli Galil. Features include a folding buttstock and tritium sights for aiming in low light conditions; fits proprietary 30-round 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

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