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| [[Battlefield: Vietnam]] || || || || 2004 | | ''[[Battlefield: Vietnam]]'' || || || || 2004 | ||
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| [[Shellshock Nam '67]] || || || || 2004 | | ''[[Shellshock Nam '67]]'' || || || || 2004 | ||
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| [[Project Reality]] || || || || 2005 | | ''[[Project Reality]]'' || || || || 2005 | ||
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| [[Vietcong 2]] || || || || 2005 | | ''[[Vietcong 2]]'' || || || || 2005 | ||
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| [[Team Fortress 2]] || SMG || || With wooden furniture, and rear sight, magazine and bolt of the [[M1A1 Thompson]] || 2007 | | ''[[Team Fortress 2]]'' || SMG || || With wooden furniture, and rear sight, magazine and bolt of the [[M1A1 Thompson]] || 2007 | ||
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| [[7554]] || || || With optional melee attack || 2011 | | ''[[7554]]'' || || || With optional melee attack || 2011 | ||
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| [[Project Reality: Vietnam]] || || || || 2012 | | ''[[Project Reality: Vietnam]]'' || || || || 2012 | ||
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| rowspan="2" | ''[[Rising Storm 2: Vietnam]]'' || || ||original French 9mm version ||rowspan="2" | 2017 | | rowspan="2" | ''[[Rising Storm 2: Vietnam]]'' || || ||original French 9mm version ||rowspan="2" | 2017 | ||
Revision as of 05:44, 22 January 2022
The MAT-49 is a French submachine gun that was originally produced by Manufacture Nationale d'Armes de Tulle (MAT). The MAT-49 began production in 1949 after a series of trials for a new submachine gun to replace the MAS-38. The MAT-49 was chosen in part for its simple design and cost-effective stamped metal construction, allowing for rapid, economic production of a large amount of guns that the French military desperately needed. The MAT-49 also includes two design features unusual for a submachine gun: the ability for the magazine well to fold up and a grip safety, a feature more common to handguns.
The MAT-49 was used extensively by the French military during their military ventures of the early Cold War period, such as the First Indochina War and the Algerian War. It was well-liked in service owing to its compactness, ease of use, and reliability. Following the French withdrawal from Vietnam, captured MAT-49s were converted to 7.62×25mm Tokarev by North Vietnamese forces and used by the People's Army of Vietnam and Viet Cong during the Vietnam War.
Production of the MAT-49 was taken over by Manufacture d'armes de Saint-Étienne plant (MAS) in the 1960s and production ceased in 1979, when the FAMAS assault rifle was adopted and filled the niche previously occupied by the MAT-49.
Specifications
(1949 - 1979)
- Type: Submachine Gun
- Caliber: 9x19mm, 7.62x25mm Tokarev（North Vietnamese conversion）
- Weight: 7.7 lbs (3.5 kg)
- Length: 18.1 in (46 cm) (stock collapsed), 28.3 in (72 cm) (stock extended)
- Barrel length: 9.1 in (23 cm)
- Capacity: 20, 32
- Fire Modes: full auto only
The MAT-49 and variants can be seen in the following films, television series, video games, and anime used by the following actors:
Film
Television
| Show Title | Actor | Character | Note / Episode | Air Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Professionals | 1977 - 1981 | |||
| Julie Lescaut | Pierre Cognon | Martin Héroux | "Rapt" (S03E02) | 1994 |
| Julie Lescaut | French police | "Rapt" (S03E02), "La mort en Rose" (S03E03) | 1994 | |
| Fabio Montale | Pierre Henri | Davor | 2002 | |
| The Unit | 2006 - 2009 | |||
| Deadliest Warrior | 2010 | |||
| Madiba | Laurence Fishburne | Nelson Mandela | 2017 |
Video Games
| Game Title | Appears as | Mods | Notes | Release Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Battlefield: Vietnam | 2004 | |||
| Shellshock Nam '67 | 2004 | |||
| Project Reality | 2005 | |||
| Vietcong 2 | 2005 | |||
| Team Fortress 2 | SMG | With wooden furniture, and rear sight, magazine and bolt of the M1A1 Thompson | 2007 | |
| 7554 | With optional melee attack | 2011 | ||
| Project Reality: Vietnam | 2012 | |||
| Rising Storm 2: Vietnam | original French 9mm version | 2017 | ||
| Vietnamese 7.62x25mm Tokarev conversion |