{"id":24825,"date":"2024-05-20T08:00:05","date_gmt":"2024-05-20T13:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/20\/mccann-industries-mas-49-56-in-the-elbonian-royal-air-service\/"},"modified":"2024-05-20T08:00:05","modified_gmt":"2024-05-20T13:00:05","slug":"mccann-industries-mas-49-56-in-the-elbonian-royal-air-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/20\/mccann-industries-mas-49-56-in-the-elbonian-royal-air-service\/","title":{"rendered":"McCann Industries MAS 49\/56 in the Elbonian Royal Air Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mejs-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3b7lE0ET_Yg?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Elbonian Royal Air Service merch:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.varusteleka.com\/en\/product\/forgotten-weapons-royal-air-service-elbonia-t-shirt-cotton\/78756\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.varusteleka.com\/en\/product\/forgotten-weapons-royal-air-service-elbonia-t-shirt-cotton\/78756<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the early 2000s, the Elbonian Royal Air Service was looking for an aerial interdiction rifle &#8211; something to arm snipers in dirigibles, for shooting down light aircraft and drones. In this, they were remarkably similar to a mission performed by French Army de l&#8217;Air snipers &#8211; and the Elbonians made the critical mistake of attempting to copy the French.<\/p>\n<p>They purchased surplus MAS 49\/56 rifles from McCann Industries in the United States. These were rifles converted to 7.62x51mm, and then fitted with McCann&#8217;s modernization package. McCann manufactured a new aluminum lower that used AR grips and stocks, and fitted the barrels with quad rail assemblies. <\/p>\n<p>The Real Story:<br \/>This is in fact one of the very few McCann Industries modernized MAS 49\/56 rifles produced. It is also, in fact, very similar to the MAS 49\/56 MSB and the modernization work done by French gunsmith Herl\u00e9 Kaigre. The French Air Force snipers did apparently at least test one or two of this sort of modernized 49\/56, as the semiauto action offered benefits over their bolt action FR-G rifles. Ultimately, though, they adopted the FN SCAR-H a few years ago. 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In this, they were remarkably similar to a mission performed by French Army de l&#8217;Air snipers &#8211; and the Elbonians&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/20\/mccann-industries-mas-49-56-in-the-elbonian-royal-air-service\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">McCann Industries MAS 49\/56 in the Elbonian Royal Air Service<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":24826,"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-24825","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\/24825","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=24825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}