{"id":20117,"date":"2022-04-13T08:00:22","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T13:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/13\/fn-da1-the-bar-for-nato\/"},"modified":"2022-04-13T08:00:22","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T13:00:22","slug":"fn-da1-the-bar-for-nato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/13\/fn-da1-the-bar-for-nato\/","title":{"rendered":"FN-DA1: The BAR for NATO"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nOw00FlRvDE?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/utreon.com\/c\/forgottenweapons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/utreon.com\/c\/forgottenweapons\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.forgottenweapons.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/shop.forgottenweapons.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>After World War Two, FN put the BAR back into production. This was initially the FN-D version with a quick-change barrel, but with NATO&#8217;s adoption of the 7.62mm cartridge, there was a demand for the BAR in that chambering. The Belgian Army adopted this new round, and plenty of other nations did as well. This prompted FN to release a new version of the FN-D for it, designated the FN-DA1.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the new chambering, the DA1 also had these three changes:<br \/> &#8211; Larger bipod feet and a wider bipod stance<br \/> &#8211; A rear aperture sight instead of an open notch<br \/> &#8211; A more protected barrel release latch<\/p>\n<p>The FN-DA1 would remain in production until 1967, when it was finally discontinued.<\/p>\n<p>Contact:<br \/>Forgotten Weapons<br \/>6281 N. Oracle 36270<br \/>Tucson, AZ 85740<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/utreon.com\/c\/forgottenweapons\/ http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! http:\/\/shop.forgottenweapons.com After World War Two, FN put the BAR back into production. This was initially the FN-D version with a quick-change barrel, but with NATO&#8217;s adoption of the 7.62mm cartridge, there was a demand for the BAR in that chambering. The Belgian Army adopted this new round, and plenty&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/13\/fn-da1-the-bar-for-nato\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">FN-DA1: The BAR for NATO<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":20118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}