They began this work at the beginning of the 20s of the last century, and four years later they adopted the cartridge 7,5x57 mm MAS mod. However, the new cartridge was created just as slowly. And everyone understood that the lack of a new rifle is connected with the absence of a new cartridge, and the old one was outdated long ago. That is, Lebel’s 1886 rifle, the French soldiers had to fight in World War II, and they were used in the colonies in the post-war period. This attitude had the most negative impact on the new infantry rifle program launched in 1931, which was implemented so slowly that the new MAS 1936 rifle, that is, the 1936 model of the year, was launched only at the end of March 1938. The power of the habit was too great, and the French military too weakly focused on technical progress in this area. 1917 of the Year, French Army News in the Rifle weapons by no means shine. And although already in the years of the First World War the Berthier rifle was adopted, and then the riberol automatic rifle arr.
France for many years used its Lebel rifle of the 1886 model of the year with 8 caliber mm, so that, according to the French military, was good.
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