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Uploaded by on Jul 29, 2007

Promotional video from the Armalite division of Fairchils Aircraft and Engine

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  • Semi-auto receivers were manufactured by Central Kentucky Arms, Telco, H. & H. Sendra, and some talented individuals manufactured their own to complete their parts kits. Original AI manufactured receivers that had been "de-milled" with a saw cut were re-manufactured by Hahn Machine.

    A good source of information on the subject is the book by Maj. Sam Pikula, if you can find a copy

  • Approximately 2-3K rifles were manufactured all told, making it one of the rarest modern military rifles. Most were used up in service, but a number of rifles were imported into Canada in the 70-80's and were converted to semi-auto for civilian sales. Many rifles made it into the U.S as parts kits, minus the lower receiver, which brought about the manufacture of civilian legal semi-auto only receivers here in the .U.S.

  • Continued -

    Some of the sequences show live fire, others use blanks for safety reasons.

    The rifles were an excellent design, far ahead of their time, but the military trials were indeed rigged to eliminate the T-48 (FAL) and the AR-10, and insure adoption of the M14.

  • Continued -

    The rifles shown in the video are the early U.S. pre-production types, not the later AI Sudanese or Portuguese issued rifles.

    The belt-fed variant shown didn't exactly live up to expectations, and the sequence shown is an edited product to eliminate malfunctions.

  • I'm an old AR-10 guy, so let me answer some of the questions - first off, the new AR10 type rifles are not compatible with these Armalites, either the Costa Mesa guns or the later Artillerie Inrichtingen Holland built rifles.

  • @KnockoffNigeI They have a large recoil spring in the stock that helps the recoil alot, and these guys are very good at handling them.

  • That recoil control on auto looks impressive, I'm wondering if it's a genuine demo with military spec rounds?

  • It's something the AR10 is still being made but just in modern incarnations.

  • I bought an ArmaLite AR10 A2 carbine last week. These things are amazing, truly.

  • oh ok

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