{"id":8901,"date":"2020-03-04T12:07:34","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T12:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2020\/03\/04\/french-air-force-snipers-the-fr-g1-and-fr-g2\/"},"modified":"2020-07-22T11:21:45","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T16:21:45","slug":"french-air-force-snipers-the-fr-g1-and-fr-g2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2020\/03\/04\/french-air-force-snipers-the-fr-g1-and-fr-g2\/","title":{"rendered":"French Air Force Snipers: the FR-G1 and FR-G2"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KK6qy7UknqI?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/ForgottenWeapons\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/ForgottenWeapons\/home<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>When St Etienne developed the FR-F1 sniper rifle, all the branches of the French military were given the opportunity to purchase them &#8211; and the Army, Navy, and Gendarmerie did. The Air Force, decided that it didn&#8217;t need any, though. Until about 20 years later, when they decided that they did, in fact, want some precision rifles. By that time the FR-F production lines were all shut down, and so the Air Force had to find an alternative solution.<\/p>\n<p>That solution was to simply build a very similar precision rifle on a standard MAS 36 receiver. They did so in the 1990s, and the result was the FR-G series. The G1 pattern used the FR-F1 style of bipod and the G2 pattern used the FR-F2 type of bipod. Only about 600 were made in total, and they were replaced starting in 2013 with the H&#038;K 417.<\/p>\n<p>Contact:<br \/>\nForgotten Weapons<br \/>\n6281 N. 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