French mat 49 smg magazine 32 history note.
French mat 49 smg.
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At top french paratroopers at dien bien phu armed with the mat 49 smg.
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Sadly the armorer went to a lot of trouble and expense to get the correct smg for a former french legionaire to carry in the algerian desert in 1960 a mat 49.
The mat 49 remained in service into the 1980s as seen here with these foreign legion forces.
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In 1949 after evaluating several prototypes including a collapsible design from hotchkiss the french mat factory began production of the mat 49 9 mm submachine gun the mat 49 used a machine stamping process which allowed the economical production of large numbers of submachine guns then urgently required by the french government for use by army french foreign legion as well.
The mat 49 was the iconic gun of the failed french military operations in indochina and algeria.
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A simple blowback operated weapon its most notable feature was a magazine housing which folded forward under the barrel to make the weapon more compact when not in use.
Normally they d use a us grease gun or an mp 38 or mp 40 in a low budget production like this one where the expense for ammunition exceeds what they pay the armorer.
Photos via wikipedia designed and manufactured because the french military was.
The french police continued to use the mas 38 after world war ii until it was replaced in the 1950s by the mat 49 submachine gun.