The FAMAS (French: Fusil d'Assaut de la Manufacture d'Armes de Saint-Étienne or "Assault rifle of the Saint-Étienne's weapon factory") is a bullpup-styled assault rifle designed and manufactured in France by MAS located in Saint-Étienne, which is now a member of the French government-owned Nexter group. It is the service rifle of the French military and has been in service since 1978. The variant depicted in-game is the older F1, which has a small trigger guard and non-STANAG magazine.
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A new set of sights are used, as the original sights are located in the carry handle (which has been covered by a Picatinny rail). Similar to the M16A4, the FAMAS is a very effective assault rifle especially at range. One burst will kill with Stopping Power at any range, as long as all three shots hit. It is not recommended to use FMJ with the FAMAS because it already has a high penetration rate, unless one is doing so to obtain the Extended Mags.
The FAMAS has a slower reload, faster burst-fire and longer time between bursts than the M16A4. These differences make the FAMAS very slightly weaker than the M16A4 at close and medium range (where quickly adjusting aim between shots is important) but more deadly from afar as the faster burst improves the grouping of the shots, increasing the likelihood that all bullets will hit before the enemy moves. Because of the delay between bursts, Stopping Power is virtually required as if the first burst doesn't kill, the target will often have moved or will be returning fire.
The FAMAS has no sway with the iron sights, Red Dot Sight, or Holographic Sight even when moving. With the iron sights, Red Dot Sight or Holographic Sights the FAMAS has virtually no recoil, so it can be fired as quickly as the gun will allow with almost no detriment to accuracy. However, the ACOG and Thermal scopes introduce a fair amount of vertical recoil making it much trickier to land follow up shots or even determine if the target is down (this can actually be useful for achieving Expert challenges as the recoil will often result in accidental headshots).
In terms of damage output per second, the FAMAS has the highest of every weapon besides sniper rifles, but its 3-round burst doesn't always hit the target with all 3 rounds, so if the FAMAS was to not hit with all 3 rounds, but just 1 round per burst, it would have the lowest damage (9th) of all assault rifles because the .32 second delay causes it to have a slow cyclic rate of fire. The FAMAS' damage output per second is right behind the M16A4 because the M16 has a lower waiting time between bursts causing a faster cyclic rate of fire. The FAMAS trades the rate of fire for clear iron sights and faster traveling bullets.
In the Campaign, the FAMAS is found with the red dot sight and the holographic sight.
Weapon Attachments
The FAMAS takes the same attachments as the nine other assault rifles:
- Grenade Launcher
- Shotgun
- Red Dot Sight
- Holographic Sight
- Silencer
- Heartbeat Sensor
- ACOG Scope
- Thermal Scope
- FMJ
- Extended Mags
Trivia
- The FAMAS has a thirty-round magazine capacity, despite having the F1 25-round magazine model.
- In some parts of the campaign, you can find a standard black FAMAS with white tape on it that acts as the Arctic Camouflage.
- In Museum, the FAMAS' sight has "Infinity Ward, Encino CA" written on it. This is a reference to Infinity Ward's headquarters, which are located in Encino, CA.
- There is a non-functional laser-emitter mounted on the side. It is most noticeable when camouflage is applied or in the create-a-class picture.
- The tactical rail on the FAMAS for the sights cannot be applied as there is no component on the handle to attach a rail. (The French military issues rails to sit in the sights in front of the grenade sights and is held in place by a screw on the left side of the hand guard. However, these rail are not available to citizens.)
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