{"id":26100,"date":"2024-12-25T06:33:05","date_gmt":"2024-12-25T12:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/25\/modernizing-le-clairon-the-famas-valorise\/"},"modified":"2024-12-25T06:33:05","modified_gmt":"2024-12-25T12:33:05","slug":"modernizing-le-clairon-the-famas-valorise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/25\/modernizing-le-clairon-the-famas-valorise\/","title":{"rendered":"Modernizing Le Clairon: the FAMAS Valorise"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mejs-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xhMfTm2-x04?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>All the best firearms history channels streaming to all major devices:<br \/>weaponsandwar.tv<\/p>\n<p>The FAMAS was the best bullpup rifle of its era, but it was a difficult platform to modernize with optics. In 1995, the &#8220;FELIN&#8221; (Fantassin \u00e0 \u00c9quipement et Liaisons INt\u00e9gr\u00e9s; Integrated Infantry Equipment and Communications) was commissioned to create a next-generation weapons platform for the French soldier. This used a computerized multi-function optic mounted to a lowered rails system and a control keypad on a new front grip on the rifle. Like the American Objective Force Warrior and other similar programs, FELIN was not successful &#8211; but the base rifle did have a future. By dropping the new keypad-integrated lower assembly for the original FAMAS F1 lower but keeping the lowered upper assembly with its Picatinny rail, the FAMAS Valoris\u00e9 was created, allowing much improved optics mounting.<\/p>\n<p>These new rifles still used the FAMAS 25-round magazine, but now had Beretta-made barrels with 1:9 rifling, suitable for M855 and other heavy 5.56mm loadings. The Valoris\u00e9 also included a small piece of rail specifically for an IR laser and added pivot to the bipod (which remained free-floated from the barrel). A total of 18,500 rifles were converted, and in 2015 they were used to equip 17 French regiments &#8211; and they saw some combat use in Afghanistan. Had the FAMAS platform been retained, this would have been the bassi for its further modernization &#8211; but with adoption of the H&#038;K 416F instead, the Valoris\u00e9 rifles are being decommissioned.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/utreon.com\/c\/forgottenweapons\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/utreon.com\/c\/forgottenweapons\/<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.forgottenweapons.com\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/shop.forgottenweapons.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All the best firearms history channels streaming to all major devices:weaponsandwar.tv The FAMAS was the best bullpup rifle of its era, but it was a difficult platform to modernize with optics. In 1995, the &#8220;FELIN&#8221; (Fantassin \u00e0 \u00c9quipement et Liaisons INt\u00e9gr\u00e9s; Integrated Infantry Equipment and Communications) was commissioned to create a next-generation weapons platform for&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/25\/modernizing-le-clairon-the-famas-valorise\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Modernizing Le Clairon: the FAMAS Valorise<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":26101,"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-26100","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\/26100","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=26100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}