Cuban FAL - Light Machine Gun? 

I didn't know Cuba had FALs until i had one in my hands :D

And the Cuban Communists drilled the crests out and sent them all over Central America.

@@PolenarTactical This one is a T48E1, very early version of the FALo (HBAR FAL)

@@Real_Claudy_Focan thanks for the info!

@@PolenarTactical there is quite a few photos of Castro himself during his revolutionary years, when he is seen carrying FAL.

FAL de saia

Que bom ver que mais um compatriota que é fã deste canal.

brasil garaio

O FAL produzido pela IMBEL é um senhor fuzil!

@@anselmocavalcanteguimaraes9032 nunca atirei com um, o Exército não me aceitou.

I imagine that it looks cool.

In Argentina is FAP fusil automático pesado

Not really, the T48 beat the T44 hands down, even when the testing was biased against the T48. But Springfield et al, lied through their teeth on the economics of using existing tooling (wasn't so!) and so the T48 went to 90 other countries and is still in service today.. The T44 was never purchased by any other country and only in standard US service for 7 years. Because it just wasn't that good. Politics and corruption.

I have seen a few krink and side folding 74 series in photos from a friend but yes a lot of type 2 rifle which to me is the best looking

@@qamzatmedvedov Cuba does not use the 74 series. They tend to only use akm.

@@cubanreemachine9592 oh wow I would have assumed when you guys bought surplus gear awhile back that would mean at least afgan era equipment but that is very neat, maybe they are not Cuban, or possible special forces? I do not speak Cuban or know enough of the military to know if what I saw could be from another country but then again never know what is what on the internet anymore

@@cubanreemachine9592 is it possible you could privately purchase these weapons? I know I have seen internationally some clones of popular weapons in Russia line Izmaesh and vsshk clones but thats moreso in eastern europe and the middle east and crazy rich guys. Could I have possibly been looking at smuggler or traffickers weapons because over here the big time crooks use varied things such as glocks to even american Ar-15s… hell some of the PMCs here had somehow gotten their hands on an american or possibly british made M4A1 with an underslung m203 grenade launcher… hard to say if they acquired with cash or with lead but nevertheless I have seen a strange sort of weapons across the globe.

@@qamzatmedvedov Most of the equipment that Cuba has was From the Angolan Conflicts. The Soviets told Cuba that a percentage of the equipment sent to angola was going to be kept by the cuban army. If you want to know something more interesting is that Cuba produced the Vilma optics and actually gave the license of production to Venezuela. The closest thing to use of the 74 series is the 74U which is used by the Cuban black berets are the ones that use it and cuba secret service use it but that is not the armored forces, but the MININT which is internal affairs basically. Cuban special forces tend to use AMD, Romanian Akm, Russian Akm, and such they also use Akms for certain operations. Cuba does not have any FAL since they send mostly all to Nicaragua, Colombia and Venezuela. When it comes to the video that Cuban FAL is really unique and rare since it still has the cuban coat of arms. Cuban government did a program of erasing the serial numbers and drilling holes to the Coat of arms to cover it. Then like stated above they would send it to other american nations. Cuba has alot of VZ.52 rifles in reserves that they got from czeck. There is alot of interesting info about cuban military.

Nice.

The Internet has ruined me.. but.. there are worse things to get excited for..

DAMMIT *unzips*

Febreze*

Hello fellow Cuban!

@@rlcarbo dímelo acere!!

What does South Korea and Switzerland do?

I am from Russia but I love Cuban food and culture, it is like if our culture was from a beautiful tropical island very strong and amazing people of Cuba thanks to your father for being a soldier this is a great honor where I am from but I still respect for you not wanting to join because of our current world

Can you believe he WASN'T smoking a cigar in the video?

Oof :(

My point exactly, that's why we shot it at S&B factory 😅

Good to see ya here OG 😊👍

Thank you! Soon going for a million 😉

Haven't seen it yet but i have the Argentinian one at home

Yes, Batista government had closed a contract with Belgium, and paid for it, right before the triumph of the revolution in 1959.

Actual US for a time did not allow batista to buy weapons from the United States. Cuba had to buy from countries like Dominican republic. That is why you will see Cuban forces using also the dominican sub machine gun san cristobal.

I didn't even know these existed until i held one

I have family members that used the Fn Fal. Some preferred it to the AKM. Most of the cuban Fn Fals were sent to nicaragua, Colombia and Venezuela. Also, i remember that cuban police order B.A.R for the national police in the capital.

Yeah, that was only for fun :D The handguard is also thicker than a standard one so it keeps your hands safe from the scorching barrel

I actually had an idea to produce some gunpowder scented candles in the past - the hard part was replicating the smell of the gunpowder... so i experimented by putting actually gunpowder in candle wax... And that is how i invented the arson candles! :D

@@PolenarTactical i take two perfekt for the insurance 😂

@@PolenarTactical haha

That's 7.62x51mm NATO for you, powerful round...

sounded like an AA gun or something. such a beefy, beautiful sound.

Yup... 👆THIS👆 😍

Yes. And if you want to shoot like a sniper, you need the ones rolled by Fidel himself. Ask me how I now.

The rate of fire is just right that it makes the 7.62 controlable even in full auto

18 USC 922(r) only applies to assembly of rifles, not possession.

@@timewave02012 I assembled it from a Tapco parts kit on a DSA receiver

@@jaberie308 If you didn't admit to having assembled it, could anyone prove beyond reasonable doubt you had? I'm not usually one of those commenters calling people out for "complying", especially since RU-vid is known to be monitored by BATFE, but swapping parts just so you can legally admit to assembling a rifle, in compliance with a statue that couldn't possibly hold up to a Constitutional challenge after NYSRPA v. Bruen, seems beyond pointless.

You got polymer mofo =/

El FAL ya estaba en desuso al rededor de los 70. Pero anteriormente si lo uso las FAR y las MTT junto con el VZ-52 y las ametralladoras checas. El barco La Coubre, que explotó en La Habana, estaba cargado con Fales entre otros armamentos.

they hate guns but love making money...

@@PolenarTactical I forgot to add...awesome video...I'm envious.