{"id":30134,"date":"2026-08-12T08:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T13:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/12\/the-famasenning-all-the-famas-from-airsoft-to-centerfire\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T08:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T13:00:09","slug":"the-famasenning-all-the-famas-from-airsoft-to-centerfire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/12\/the-famasenning-all-the-famas-from-airsoft-to-centerfire\/","title":{"rendered":"The FAMASenning: All the FAMAS from Airsoft to Centerfire"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mejs-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2BkL8pZB_jY?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The military FAMAS has spawned several clones, and we are taking a look at each one of them today. First up is the Cybergun AEG airsoft FAMAS &#8211; a normal commercial production piece, but this one is surplus brought into the US by Navy Arms. It was used by the French National Police as a training tool &#8211; pretty neat. Second is the GIAT &#8220;Commando&#8221;, a CO2-powered FAMAS pellet rifle introduced in 1987. Third if the Unique F11, an X51 Bis semiautomatic.22 rifle inside a FAMAS-shaped shell, made in small numbers in 1983.<\/p>\n<p>BlokeOnTheRange video on the Unique F11:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/FNV1IV__c70\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/FNV1IV__c70<\/a><\/p>\n<p>FAMAS FA vs MAS223 Features:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/y64WqGdmfiY\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/y64WqGdmfiY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The best firearms reference books: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.headstamppublishing.com\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.headstamppublishing.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><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>The military FAMAS has spawned several clones, and we are taking a look at each one of them today. First up is the Cybergun AEG airsoft FAMAS &#8211; a normal commercial production piece, but this one is surplus brought into the US by Navy Arms. It was used by the French National Police as a&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/12\/the-famasenning-all-the-famas-from-airsoft-to-centerfire\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The FAMASenning: All the FAMAS from Airsoft to Centerfire<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":30135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"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-30134","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\/30134","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=30134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}