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[[Image:FAL 50-41 & L2A1.jpg|thumb|right|400px| FN FAL 50-41 and an L2A1 - 7.62x51mm NATO]] | [[Image:FAL 50-41 & L2A1.jpg|thumb|right|400px| FN FAL 50-41 and an L2A1 - 7.62x51mm NATO]] | ||
Also called the FN LAR (Light Automatic Rifle), a named ascribed to the FN FAL in Europe. The fact that there are so many variants, made by different countries and different names for the same models, causes a lot of confusion regarding what particular FAL is in what movie. For the most part, only the major variants of the gun will have been seen in movies with wide distribution, (the original Belgium version, U.S. versions, the Israeli Versions and British Version). | Also called the FN LAR (Light Automatic Rifle), a named ascribed to the FN FAL in Europe. The fact that there are so many variants, made by different countries and different names for the same models, causes a lot of confusion regarding what particular FAL is in what movie. For the most part, only the major variants of the gun will have been seen in movies with wide distribution, (the original Belgium version, U.S. versions, the Israeli Versions and British/Commonwealth Version). | ||
==Specifications== | ==Specifications== | ||
Revision as of 02:19, 30 January 2009
The FN FAL and variants are used by the following actors in the following movies:
Also called the FN LAR (Light Automatic Rifle), a named ascribed to the FN FAL in Europe. The fact that there are so many variants, made by different countries and different names for the same models, causes a lot of confusion regarding what particular FAL is in what movie. For the most part, only the major variants of the gun will have been seen in movies with wide distribution, (the original Belgium version, U.S. versions, the Israeli Versions and British/Commonwealth Version).
Specifications
Type: Battle Rifle
Caliber: 7.62x51mm NATO
Capacity: 20,30 round box magazine. (20 Standard)
Fire Modes: Safe/Semi-Auto/Full-Auto ; Semi-Auto on British L1 and it's derivatives
FN FAL
Film
- Miami Vice (2006)
- Used by the commando team in Beirut. Munich (2005) (Israeli-model)
- Blessed by Fire (2005)
- Bad Boys II (2003)
- A Man Apart (2003)
- The Replacement Killers (1998)
- Money Talks (1997)
- United States Police Force guards in Escape from LA. (1996) (fitted with M203 grenade launchers)
- Tom Sizemore as Michael Cheritto in Heat (1995) (50.61 Paratrooper Folder)
- Ernie Hudson as Captain Munro Kelly in Congo (1995) (50.61 Paratrooper Folder)
- Used by Argentine soldiers in An Ungentlemanly Act (1992)
- Dolph Lundgren as Nikolai Rachenko and various Soldiers/Guerillas in Red Scorpion (1989) (Israelli model with M203 grenade launcher), (Another FAL was mocked up as a Soviet AO-63 assault rifle)
- A Mudjahideen rebel in The Beast of War (1988)
- Romancing the Stone (1984)
- Cuban and Nicaraguan soldiers in Red Dawn (1984)
- Scarface (1983) (50.00 Full sized Battle Rifle)
- Game for Vultures (1979)
- The Wild Geese (1978)
Television
- Route 9 (1998)
- Argentine soldiers in Tumbledown (1988)
- Angel in Green {1987)
Video Games
L1A1
Film
- Soldiers of the Trinidad and Tobago Regiment in The Bank Job (2008)
- Simon Pegg as Sgt. Nicolas Angel in Hot Fuzz (2007)
- Steve Zhan's Character in Sahara (2005)
- Reign of Fire (2002)
- Bloody Sunday (2002)
- The Devil's Own (1997)
- Colombian mercenaries in Clear and Present Danger (1994)
- British soldiers in Blown Away (1994)
- British Soldiers in In the Name of the Father (1993)
- An Ungentlemanly Act (1992)
- SAS operatives in The Fourth Protocol (1987)
- British Police Tactical Response Unit in An American Werewolf in London (1981)
- Australian soldiers in The Odd Angry Shot (1979)
- The Wild Geese (1978)
- Power Play (1978)
- No Blade Of Grass (1970)
TV
- NSW Police State Protection Group officers in Police Rescue (1991)
- British soldiers in Tumbledown (1988)
DSA SA58 OSW
Film
- Reynaldo A. Gallegos as Diaz in Rambo (2008) (fitted with M68 Aimpoint scope)
- A criminal in Hancock (2008)
- Haitian gang members in Bad Boys II (2003)
- A drive-by shooter in Hollywood Homicide (2003)
- Derrick O'Connor as Thomas Aquinas in End of Days (1999)