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...ch]] government-owned [[Nexter]] group. It is the [[service rifle]] of the French military. ....JPG|thumb|left|French soldiers from the 27th Alpine Rangers Battalion and French Task Force Tiger patrol the valleys of Kapisa province, Afghanistan.]]

}}The '''Minimi''' (short for French: ''Mini Mitrailleuse''; “mini machine gun”) is a [[Belgium|Belgian]] [[ ...ght|200px|A Minimi operator in the 93rd Mountain Artillery Regiment of the French Army.]]

|''1er Régiment Parachutiste d'Infanterie de Marine'' (1er RPIMa) of the French Army |''Troupes de marine'' naval infantry regiment of the ''Armée de Terre'' (French Army)

*[[France]]: [[France|French]] GIGN and RAID. The following diagrams are also available for reference:

...he war, the Army was in fact forced to purchase many foreign weapons - the French-produced Hotchkiss 8 mm machine gun was actually the most numerous heavy ma ...France; the others were equipped equally with machine guns bought from the French or the British [[Vickers machine gun]]s built by Colt in the US. Where the

...They were found to be suited to the kind of operation the two British, two French, and one Belgian Regiment carried out. It was handy enough to parachute wit The M1A was also used by the French Paratroopers (such as the 1er RCP) during the Algerian War from 1954 to 196

*[[France]] [[FAMAS]] in French service. {{missing diagrams}}

*[[Mitrailleuse]] - The French word for machine gun, but also a type of manual volley gun. ...machine-gun.htm How Stuff Works] - Very well written article with animated diagrams

... sleeve<ref>Shaw: 4 H 109</ref> and a hole through the back of the doubled french cuff but no exit hole on the palm side.<ref>Governor Connally's shirt: WC e ...ly described in her book “From Love Field” that Connally's right hand, French cuff shirt cuff, solid-gold “Mexican peso” cufflink was struck with a b

...he SPAD XIII types used twin synchronised Vickers, as did most British and French fighters between 1918 and the mid 1930s. In the air, the heavy water coolin {{missing diagrams}}

...th various African armies, guerrilla forces, and even a few members of the French Foreign Legion in Chad.<ref>Pikula, Sam (Major), ''The ArmaLite AR-10'', p. {{missing diagrams}}

|used_by= French Resistance, US Air Force ...made its reputation during WWII when it became the pistol of choice of the French Resistance Movement. It was standard issue survival pack gear for US Air Fo

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...&cat_id=051&type_id=003 Browning Catalog]</ref>) or as a '''GP''' (for the French term, "Grande Puissance"). The term '''P-35''' is also used, based on the i ...eld"), or alternatively ''Grande Puissance'' (literally "high power"). The French military's requirements were that the arm should be compact, have a capacit