French mat 49 project lower receiver stripped with wire collapsible stock fair 269 00.
French mat 49.
The french mat 49 submachine gun.
By robert bruce unfortunately the model 1938 was not produced in 9mm parabellum.
The mat 49 remained in service into the 1980s as seen here with these foreign legion forces.
The mat 49 was the iconic gun of the failed french military operations in indochina and algeria.
However the mat 49 was not withdrawn from service in france until 1998 and it still remains in use with.
Contents show development 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 remained in production until 1979 when the french army adopted the famas.
The mat 49 was a submachine gun which was developed by french arms factory manufacture nationale d armes de tulle mat for use by the french army and was first produced in 1949.
If this cartridge had been employed the model 1938 would have been noted as one of the finest among all of the various submachine guns used in world war ii.