Which is weird, this weapon was featured in BF vietnam, over 15 years ago, you would think people would have started shooting videos about it then, my father used that gun when he was in tanks, said it was a fine piece, never jammed on him or anything
@@alexis1052 Oui, mais jamais sur son manque d'efficacité ! J'ai tiré à la sten et à la mp40 mais je n'ai pas encore eu l'occasion de trouver une version auto de la mat à essayer, un petit fantasme
@@stanfordwillis4841 J'ai eu la chance de tirer juste une fois en faisant mon service militaire en 1984, je l'avais trouvé lourd et j'avais do mal le garder a niveau, sûrement parce-que je n'avais pas de muscle !🙂 C'était l'arme de mon père quand il était parachutiste. Salut.
As a french paratrooper i thank you very much for the Vid. This gun has a lot of history for us and saw a lot of combat....and reminds us of a glorious past
@@monsieurpascal536 Je ne fais pas forcement allusion a Dien Bien Phu mais a toute une époque...Commencez par respecter la mémoire des anciens car je doute que vous ayez vécu le 1/100eme de ce qu'ils ont vécu et enduré
Today we commemorate the "anniversary" of the 11/13/2015, the day where 130 people died to terrorists attacks in cafés and near the Stade de France in Paris, atleast 400 others persons were injured in that one night. I guess it's just a coincidence but one not to forget. Thanks Larry for this
Hard to believe that was already 5 years ago. It seems like we learned nothing. Only thing that stopped the terror attacks was them taking everyone's freedom away. Now the terrorists have nothing to do.
"I'm thinking about those Conquistadores, who burnt their ships on unknown shores, to avoid the temptation to go back, and force the fate. For me, all those parachutes are burning ships." Dien Bien Phu, Pierre Schoendoerffer.
Personally I had the opportunity to shoot with this weapon in 1983 during my military service. Super fun and reliable. I was the champion of my section in speed of disassembly and reassembly 😎. What a pleasure to see this toy working again.
As a Special Forces officer in VN in 1969, I kept a MAT-49 in my hootch for self defense when not in the field on patrol. Good shooting weapon , even on full auto…
My father was a French paratrooper in Algeria with the 3e RPIMa for 3 years. He loved this gun best of all the standard arms that were issued. It was heavy but it was robust and reliable. He volunteered to be a voltigeur (pointman) because all they had to carry was their MAT-49 and grenades. In all this time there he did 2 combat drops by parachute. Most of his combat drops were by helicopter (Sikorsky H-34 and Piasecki H-21).
@@stanfordwillis4841 désolé en 1981 les paras avaient la mat 49 j ai commencé mon instruction au 8 RPIMA en 1982 et j avais la Mat 49 j ai reçu le Famas fin 1982 alors oui pourquoi pas au Tchad en 1981 par contre il n y avait pas de troupes officiel Française à cette datte entre 1978 et 1983 puisque nous somment arriver en juillet 1983 avec l opération Silure . opération Bouar Centrafrique à N'Djamena les premiers sur place
@@nelssy313 En effet mon père dans l'armée de l'air avait toujours un mat 49 début des années 80.. les premiers FAMAS arrivaient mais il avait pas le droit de sans servir.. En revanche la technique d'instruction du tir était particulière au MAT49...ils leurs disaient de viser le bas du corps à la volé pour que au tir ça remonte dans le gus ^^ ont est loin du "tactical" moderne..
French police and gendarmerie used it until 1990s. The last military operation which saw it was the foreign legion dropping on Kolwezi (Congo, 1978). After that, FSA MAS 49/56 and MAT 49 were replaced by the FAMAS.
@@hironfrederic La MAT 49/54 avec crosse bois , canon long et double détente FULL/SEMI AUTO était en dotation dans la police, la Gendarmerie avait la MAT "STANDARD"
French Army too... I had one for the year of national service. I have learned to use this one, then the MAS 49/56, and the 12/7... There were good arms for good soldiers ! 😅😂🤣
In the French Air Force, I have used this gun all along my 15 years of duty from 1987 to 2002. In the last years before I am left, we were changing to the FAMAS. But I really prefered the MAT. It was a great fun to shoot. Easy to operate, simple, reliable, efficient at short distance. The same for the PA (automatic pistol) MAC50.
I see a big french community in comments it’s pretty cool 💪 R.I.P to all french people who died or who where injured in terrorist attack of Paris and in France ✝️🙏
Thanks mate, although we could say the same about all the people killed by us french over there for decades, we've also been bombing the middle east to rumbles for over 50 years now, the people there get pissed off and since they don't have the military means to take us on directly, they kill a few hundreds of us every now and then, it's tragic, but we kill thousands over there every year so we should at ourselves in the mirror before we start judging those desperate and hateful actions
@@bluetv6386 It's the truth whether you like it or not, and speak eng here, don't be lazy ;) En vrai depuis 1950 on a armé Israel (c'est nous qui leur avons passé l'arme nuclaire, De Gaulle plus précisément), le Koweit, le Chad, Suez, le Mali, l'afgha, on ne fait que ça, et ce pour sécuriser ce qui nous intéresse là-bas (on aide pas les pays sans ressource, si y a rien on ne s'en mêle pas, penser que ce que je dis est n'importe quoi quand on vit dans le 3ème plus gros exportateur d'armes au monde, sans se rendre compte pourquoi on entretient le terrorisme en France et les guerres dans les pays musulmans, faut vraiment être naif), on a tout intérêt à le faire, depuis la fin de la guerre froide on avait perdu notre ennemi commun qui justifiait notre budget militaire et notre production et vente massive d'armes, c'est pas méchant, juste du business. Attention hein, on parle de trois quatre cons, pas plus intelligents que nos soldats, ceux qui les financent (Qatar, Arabie Saoudite etc) on les aime bien eux, ils ont du fric et on aime bcp ça, en plus ils nous achètent nos avions, chars, missiles et armes légères, que demande le peuple.
@@stanfordwillis4841 fair enough Vincent. Taking a hasty " d'où parles tu camarade?" approach I was thinking - wrongly so it seems - that you might be a gun crazy half brained "one two three viva l'Algerie" 'racaille' but it seems your thinking might stem from, directly or indirectly, knowingly or not, (or be close to) Burgat's (or Soral's) ideas (or Moisi's if you want to be more PC.) I respect and understand this and you have a point even if I disagree: as far as I'm concerned 'ils auront ma haine'. En attendant on va pas encombrer cette excellente chaîne Yankee avec nos fines gauloiseries, bonne route a toi camarade.
Honestly, out of all the Sub guns I know. I find this one to be one of the most aesthetically pleasing SMG's I've ever seen. I love the boxy simplicity of it much akin to a grease gun.
This is one of the coolest smgs ever produced! Simple, effective, looks badass and its french! They are still used today by many armed forces and im absolutely not wondering why! Btw. id love to see Ian and Larry testing cool french and swiss guns!
A buddy of my dad's carried one of these in Vietnam. Had electricians tape wrapped around the grip to keep the grip safety down and filed the rear sight in half so it was essentially a U notch sight.
Yes quite interesting. Back to 1991, I did my one year military service in French air force with that gun and learned each and every part of it. Remember the specific clack clack noise and it was rather hard to hit the target 🎯
My uncle (actually my cousin) got shot 3 times with one of these in 1967 in Vietnam thigh, butt, and his back. He was Marine Recon. Basically a sniper but he and his partner primarily acted as recon. After going back in 1968 he was 13 days before the end of his tour and he lost his legs at the knees from a mine. When he came back home he married and put the war behind him. Until my cousin Gloria was born and he figured that they just had a special kid then my cousin Annette was born severely mutated and when she was 2 information about Agent orange came out.
Very cool....thanks LAV. The grip safety...and that folding magwell, with finger grooves. Very nice. They obviously put a lot of thought into it, except for the sights. Geesh.
As far as rate of fire, I believe the European 9mmr is loaded to higher pressures than commercial America ammo. Some of the counties will also have sub gun specific loads. If this is the case with the French, it would explain the difference in cyclical rate of fire.
@@chrisbrent7487 Right but French soldiers used the same cartridges (9mm SFM) in the both MAT 49 SMG and MAC 50 pistol with no problem. Another pistol would not resist (breakage of Walther P.38 slides in Indochina for example).
I learnt to use it, when in my military drafting. We did not like it that much because the ones that we had were more or less worn and the trigger mechanism could fail : starting a burst and releasing the trigger, the gun didn't obey you and kept firing. Of course we knew it and the order, repeated many times at instruction, was to keep the gun on line on the target and wait for the magazine to be empty. But as it happened that some guys went crazy with that and had the bad idea to turn back to instructor to ask "what must I do, sir ?", the instructor was always ready to take the forearm of the shooter and the gun to put them back in line in the right direction of the shooting field. What a fun !
Thank you for the clarification Jugen and Alain Charles Leroy. I even looked at an old Osprey book on the French Foreign Legion and saw a couple of pictures of Leginarres carrying them in the Algerian war.
Awesome video thank you very much! I went to Dien Bien Phu (in 2015) and I actually found half a rusted MAT 49 magazine with part of the spring still inside on one of the old french positions just laying on the surface....
Love the way it folds up and becomes compact..very forward thinking for that era. Looks like a pretty sweet shooter. Thank you for everything you do LAV! ✌️
"Weights about 8lbs empty". I'm amazed at how something so small would weigh so much. I remember renting an Uzi at a range and that thing weighted like a boat anchor.
Hi there, at 5:01 you should have slide the charging button back to front (I was taught like that). Less risk to have a piece of cloth pinched and make the gun more dustproof. Great presentation by the way and I completely agree about the size of the peep hole.
En combat-localité, avec le poids de sa balle, son calibre de 9 mm, sa faible vitesse initiale (bonne puissance d'arrêt), c'est une arme redoutable...Beaucoup plus efficace qu'un fusil d'assaut en 5,56...ça nettoie...
@@olivierlouis8630 Le PM "s'enraille" , quand on relâche à la fois la manette de sécurité et la détente. Ce n'est pas un défaut de l'arme mais un incident de tir imputable à l'incompétence d'un tireur mal instruit qui ne connait pas son arme (comme d'habitude).....
Une arme compacte , rustique et efficace pour qui savait l'utiliser et connaître ses qques défauts , facile a nettoyer..Utilisée dans l'armée de l'air pendant mon service ...
Salut à tous ! Not sure how this video found me but here it is, as soon as I saw this gun it brought back memories of my late father and the pics he shared with me in my childhood years back in France (I've been in the USA for 33 years now). He was a paratrooper and served one of his three service years in the Algerian war. He recounted to me how his unit had a night encounter with guerrillas,tossed a grenade with no result then in the distance he made out a silhouette running sideways across bushes, shot short bursts to the left then right and finally in the center . Later he found the body of a young man shot across the stomach, his intended target. He never forgot about it, nearly ended up marying an Algerian girl and though his was asked to reeinlist due to excellent service he never wanted anything to do with war again though he loved the military life,I even recall him telling me his unit was on standby to jump on Paris when Gen. Charles De gaulle and French gov took the decision to let go of this colony. Sorry for this long winded story just touched an emotional nerve I guess. Aloha.!
@@francocanuck9435 that's quite some serious history there that you have experienced and will never leave you. Canada is sure a faraway distance from those memories. All my father's black and white pictures are waiting for me in those metal boxes back in Burgundy. Respectueusement pour vôtre service et celui de mon père. T.
@@thierry3953 i was surprised getting your mail ,i understand that your are living in the US,for my part i live in Canada in Ontario since 69 souvenir souvenir,it seem that a lots of french are still interested by mat 49,my preference was the mas 56,have a good day jc
Cool 😎 little SMG there Mr.Vickers!! Remember seeing a photo of the French Foreign Legion with these in an old S.O.F magizines I'm thinking from around the 70's . Thanks Larry for the video, excellent!! Stay safe and God bless 🇺🇸☠️🇺🇸!!!
Pretty modern in terms of compactness compared to the current craze of brace stock ARs. Also, from what I've read of that era and war footage from ECPA, hardly anyone used the sights, they would use instinctive shooting from the hip for the most part.
Très bien présentée et belles images, un excellent documentaire sur une arme que j'ai utilisé quand j'avais 20 ans. Solide, compacte et fiable; voilà ce que j'en retiens. Mais quand l'arme était ancienne et les pièces "usées", au premier coup de feu toutes les munitions étaient tirées en rafale et sans s'arrêter, jusqu'à ce que le chargeur soit vide. Cela n'enlevait rien à la qualité de cette arme. Google traduction: "Very well presented and beautiful images, an excellent documentary on a weapon that I used when I was 20 years old. Strong, compact and reliable; this is what I remember. But when the weapon was old and the parts "worn", at the first shot all the ammunition was fired in bursts and without stopping, until the magazine was empty. This did not detract from the quality of this weapon."
S gun was used as a standard type gun .use because of maximum capacity rounds holder.with multiple velocity that's gets power for it's change of cartridges.
Vickers Guide books need to be printed in higher numbers. Half of them are sold out and I don’t want to pay $300 on eBay. I’d be happy to preorder/prepay and wait a year if necessary just as long as I get them all
Oh let's not forget the MAT-49 was later used in the Vietnam War after several were captured from the French IndoChina War. The difference is in the type of ammo used (Soviet 7.62-mm Tokarev rounds) and the longer barrel for the converted ones.
After Indochine war Viet-Minh conversed to a version with 7,62x25mm Tokarev for their armies because it was most common cadrige than 9mm parrabellum use by the orignal one and served in Vietnam war against American soldier, Australian, Rok,Thaï
Oui... On savait... On savait faire des vehicules fiables aussi !!! Maintenant tu risques d'arriver a pied ou en velo cause de pompe injection ou turbo pété !!! Merde ! C'est pas drôle !!! 😅😂🤣
During my military service (51 years ago....), we were instructed by armorers to never shoot by keeping the trigger depressed and only after depress the handle safety. This was supposed to wear some part (I dont remind which one..)
nice Video, thanks for it. i would have been great if you had close the dust cover when the bolt is in the back, just to show how this works...or wenn the bolt is forward and you charge the gun.
J'ai tiré des milliers de cartouches avec la MAT et je n'ai que de bonnes choses à dire sur cette arme. Quand je suis passé au Famas, bof je n'ai pas aimé, mais c'est une autre histoire. On peut faire du boulot avec le Famas que l'on ne peut pas faire avec la Mat. C'est l'évolution, mais la nostalgie est toujours là...
By France, it was used in Indochina, in Egypt (Suez Crisis), maybe by the French Battalion in Korea (but in all archives I saw, soldiers were equipped with rifles, never saw the MAT-49), in Algeria of course, in Morocco (Ifni War), in Tunisia (Bizerte Crisis), probably in Bamileke (Cameroon) War, in the 1964 Gabonese coup d'état, in Zaire (Shaba I & Shaba II including the famous battle of Kolwezi), in Chad from 1969 to the 1980s and in the early years of the French participation in the Multinational Force in Lebanon. Used also by other nations in Lebanon, in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, various places in Africa...
This MG is interesting except when you load the magazine. To shoot, you have to aim down and to the left because the shot will go up diagonally to the right. This MG is good for urban fights.
French paratroopers loved it for its simpler, rugged and compact design with a good rate of firing. After the French lost in the First Indo-China War, thousands fell into the hands of the Vietnamese who converted them to use the Soviet 7.62mm Tokarev pistol cartridge which were easily available due to large quantities obtained from the Soviet Union and People's Republic of China. The converted versions have a much longer barrel and have a much higher rate of firing at 900 rpm in contrast to unconverted version at 600rpm. North Vietnam had secretly supplied them to the Algerians during the Algerian War when Algeria fought to gain independence from France. During the Second Indo-China War better known as Vietnam War, many Viet Congs were armed with them along with the well-known AK47. The weapon is still used by many countries especially in Africa.
It's very effective. And it's made for be used with 9x19 ammo more powerful than standard ammo! A lot of handgun have be destroyed by using mat49 ammo...
....Légende urbaine , les cartouches étaient les même pour les PA : j'ai une boîte de cartouches militaires sous les yeux (de 1964).... marquages "32 cartouches de 9mm pour pistolets et pistolets mitrailleurs" lot 215 RY 64....Pour infos RY : établissements Rey Frères à Nîmes.
@@abretey si tu les tire dans un Mac 50 oui. Aucun problème, il a été conçu pour encaisser !!!! Hors, ce n'est pas pour rien si dans le cahier des charges du Mac 50il était spécifié qu'il devait supporter le tir des munition prévue pour la mat 49 !!! Pas mal d'arme de poing don't suffisement dimensionné pour supporter aussi l'excédent de pression... En revanche dans un p08 c'est bybye avant la fin du chargeur... Le p38 lui encaisse mieux déjà. De même, toute arme moderne vas les digérer, car ils sont prévus pour supporter la pression d'épreuve bien supérieur à une pression normale... Mais à la longue... Même eux ne vont pas aimer...
Hey Larry, I got my Vicker's Guide AR15 book in the mail the other day! Love it and can't believe how much info and detail there is on the subject! If anyone is on the fence about it, dont. Its an awesome book!
Something I always wonder with really old weapon shooting vids is whether or not any parts have been replaced. Like the slower cyclic rate compared to the offical one could possibly due to an old spring.
Oh no... that's a decieving heavy bitch right there. Shot my fair share way back in the days and it was a blast but if felt heavier that it really was.
Merci pour cette vidéo, ça reste une arme de note histoire française et de nos batailles... Thank you for this video, it remains a weapon of note French history and our battles... Pascal
@ There semi auto versions of it, and the paperwork wouldn't be insane, it's just a B cat, and guys don't listen to him, gun ownership is very easy and flexible in France, especially for D and C cats (bolt actions, pump actions, semi auto .12g, collectibles pre 1900 etc), B cats such as semi auto smokeless handguns, SMGs, assault rifles or even anti tank rifles will have you fill up a bit of paperwork, but once that's done they can't take it back without you messing up, and they're fairly easy to obtain and keep. I've seen people here with collection numbering in the hundreds, a mate of mine has over 360, both C and B cats, it's just really easy, I've had my 1892 revolver and my Mauser .32 for years, nothing to it
@@crabyman3555 No it isn't, there is not normal in France, over 8 million people own weapons here, so it is normal to own weapons unless you live in the Paris area. And yes they could own it in semi auto by law
@ How do you get blacklisted ? I've commited weapon related offenses when I was young, got caught by the Paris police and processed, I was a recreational shooter then and I still am now 10 years later, how is it easy to be blacklisted ? What the heck have you done lol ? I was caught carrying in Paris nord for chrissake and I'm still a member of two shooting ranges
Although we can't legally own them in full autos, we have huge stockpiles of fully auto weapons on the black market here, I've fired stens, thomsons an mp40 and a WWI BAR here, it's really easy to find, you just have to be discreet, people in the countryside don't really care, only parisian sissies do, I don't mean that as an insult, but they just don't know weapons altogether and are usually scared of them
It's more associated to the Algeria war for us in France. In 1994 we (military service) were still using it due to the huge amount of ammo available (produced for a long Algeria war). I was given a FAMAS for 1 day only, as a prize for behaving!!!
it was the first gun I see it closely. I was 4 years old when the Lebanese civil war started and the Lebanese army still had some Mat49's. My grandmother house was close to the military hospital in Beirut and we used to pass by z guard who used to be equiped with a Mat49. Each time I used to pass near this guard I used to ask him about the name of his weapon and used to reply "Mat" without the 49. At that period the AK47 was called in the streets of Beirut Klashin and the FN Fal just Fal and the G3 was HK and just the M16 was M16
I remember a few years ago when there was almost no footage of this gun running on youtube. I'm happy it changed 👌🇫🇷
Pic of brewstew holding a gun as profile pic nice
Which is weird, this weapon was featured in BF vietnam, over 15 years ago, you would think people would have started shooting videos about it then, my father used that gun when he was in tanks, said it was a fine piece, never jammed on him or anything
@@stanfordwillis4841 mon grand père aussi, toujours des anecdotes sur la MAT 49
@@alexis1052 Oui, mais jamais sur son manque d'efficacité ! J'ai tiré à la sten et à la mp40 mais je n'ai pas encore eu l'occasion de trouver une version auto de la mat à essayer, un petit fantasme
@@stanfordwillis4841
J'ai eu la chance de tirer juste une fois en faisant mon service militaire en 1984, je l'avais trouvé lourd et j'avais do mal le garder a niveau, sûrement parce-que je n'avais pas de muscle !🙂
C'était l'arme de mon père quand il était parachutiste.
Salut.
As a french paratrooper i thank you very much for the Vid. This gun has a lot of history for us and saw a lot of combat....and reminds us of a glorious past
Dien Bien Phu ?!... un glorieux passé ?!...tss,tss,tss...
@@monsieurpascal536 Je ne fais pas forcement allusion a Dien Bien Phu mais a toute une époque...Commencez par respecter la mémoire des anciens car je doute que vous ayez vécu le 1/100eme de ce qu'ils ont vécu et enduré
Vive la France, le camarade!
Et Par St Michel !
Salutations à un frère d'arme.
@@Zoumbal Vive les paras!
Salutation camarade
Wonder if Ian Mccollum's watching this lol.
He did get his shooting recently. The Mas 38 I think it was. Sweet short looking little package similar to this.
He’s definitely in love.
Le Gun Jesus?
@@ultrablue2 that would be the Ian I mean!
I'm convinced all big gun you tubers watch each other's videos
Today we commemorate the "anniversary" of the 11/13/2015, the day where 130 people died to terrorists attacks in cafés and near the Stade de France in Paris, atleast 400 others persons were injured in that one night. I guess it's just a coincidence but one not to forget. Thanks Larry for this
Hard to believe that was already 5 years ago. It seems like we learned nothing. Only thing that stopped the terror attacks was them taking everyone's freedom away. Now the terrorists have nothing to do.
F
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Commemorate is the word you're looking for. 👍
@@pauperslament3467 thats the one thank you
The design of the folding magwell integrated with a foregrip is brilliant, mechanically simple but a very smart idea.
"I'm thinking about those Conquistadores, who burnt their ships on unknown shores, to avoid the temptation to go back, and force the fate. For me, all those parachutes are burning ships."
Dien Bien Phu, Pierre Schoendoerffer.
Lapin avec 2 'p' ???
Aussi bizarre qu'étrangement étonnant !!!
Personally I had the opportunity to shoot with this weapon in 1983 during my military service. Super fun and reliable. I was the champion of my section in speed of disassembly and reassembly 😎. What a pleasure to see this toy working again.
*platoon^^
As a Special Forces officer in VN in 1969, I kept a MAT-49 in my hootch for self defense when not in the field on patrol. Good shooting weapon , even on full auto…
Was it better than Carl Gustav?
My father was a French paratrooper in Algeria with the 3e RPIMa for 3 years.
He loved this gun best of all the standard arms that were issued. It was heavy but it was robust and reliable. He volunteered to be a voltigeur (pointman) because all they had to carry was their MAT-49 and grenades. In all this time there he did 2 combat drops by parachute. Most of his combat drops were by helicopter (Sikorsky H-34 and Piasecki H-21).
Ça devait être quand même incroyable cette époque…
MAT-49 - Casbah Cutter !
It was my gun when i was in the french army, and it safe my life in Tchad in 1981 !
The last time it was used in operation was 1978, were you carrying it as a gendarme over there or just rear echelon trooper ?
Merci pour ton service Alain Charles.
@@stanfordwillis4841 désolé en 1981 les paras avaient la mat 49 j ai commencé mon instruction au 8 RPIMA en 1982 et j avais la Mat 49 j ai reçu le Famas fin 1982 alors oui pourquoi pas au Tchad en 1981 par contre il n y avait pas de troupes officiel Française à cette datte entre 1978 et 1983 puisque nous somment arriver en juillet 1983 avec l opération Silure . opération Bouar Centrafrique à N'Djamena les premiers sur place
@@nelssy313 En effet mon père dans l'armée de l'air avait toujours un mat 49 début des années 80.. les premiers FAMAS arrivaient mais il avait pas le droit de sans servir..
En revanche la technique d'instruction du tir était particulière au MAT49...ils leurs disaient de viser le bas du corps à la volé pour que au tir ça remonte dans le gus ^^ ont est loin du "tactical" moderne..
@@stanfordwillis4841 Ces Mat ont été utilisées jusque dans les années 90 par l’Armée. 78 c’est le début du Famas, pas sa généralisation.
STEN: Who the hell are you!?
MAT-49: I'm you, but better!
M3 Grease gun: Who the hell are you?
MAT-49: I'm you, but metric
French police and gendarmerie used it until 1990s. The last military operation which saw it was the foreign legion dropping on Kolwezi (Congo, 1978). After that, FSA MAS 49/56 and MAT 49 were replaced by the FAMAS.
I had it in 1983-1984 at military academy and then the FAMAS.
...Utilisée au liban après 78...
For gendarmerie, a special one with wood butt instead of metal
@@hironfrederic La MAT 49/54 avec crosse bois , canon long et double détente FULL/SEMI AUTO était en dotation dans la police, la Gendarmerie avait la MAT "STANDARD"
French Army too...
I had one for the year of national service.
I have learned to use this one, then the MAS 49/56, and the 12/7...
There were good arms for good soldiers !
😅😂🤣
"Ian Mccollum wants to know your location"
In the French Air Force, I have used this gun all along my 15 years of duty from 1987 to 2002. In the last years before I am left, we were changing to the FAMAS. But I really prefered the MAT. It was a great fun to shoot. Easy to operate, simple, reliable, efficient at short distance. The same for the PA (automatic pistol) MAC50.
Reliable weapon. I used it a couple of time in the french airforce army. It got a good reputation for people in operation.
I see a big french community in comments it’s pretty cool 💪
R.I.P to all french people who died or who where injured in terrorist attack of Paris and in France ✝️🙏
Thanks mate, although we could say the same about all the people killed by us french over there for decades, we've also been bombing the middle east to rumbles for over 50 years now, the people there get pissed off and since they don't have the military means to take us on directly, they kill a few hundreds of us every now and then, it's tragic, but we kill thousands over there every year so we should at ourselves in the mirror before we start judging those desperate and hateful actions
we dont care
@@stanfordwillis4841 n'importe quoi. On t'a reconnu Momo.
@@bluetv6386 It's the truth whether you like it or not, and speak eng here, don't be lazy ;) En vrai depuis 1950 on a armé Israel (c'est nous qui leur avons passé l'arme nuclaire, De Gaulle plus précisément), le Koweit, le Chad, Suez, le Mali, l'afgha, on ne fait que ça, et ce pour sécuriser ce qui nous intéresse là-bas (on aide pas les pays sans ressource, si y a rien on ne s'en mêle pas, penser que ce que je dis est n'importe quoi quand on vit dans le 3ème plus gros exportateur d'armes au monde, sans se rendre compte pourquoi on entretient le terrorisme en France et les guerres dans les pays musulmans, faut vraiment être naif), on a tout intérêt à le faire, depuis la fin de la guerre froide on avait perdu notre ennemi commun qui justifiait notre budget militaire et notre production et vente massive d'armes, c'est pas méchant, juste du business. Attention hein, on parle de trois quatre cons, pas plus intelligents que nos soldats, ceux qui les financent (Qatar, Arabie Saoudite etc) on les aime bien eux, ils ont du fric et on aime bcp ça, en plus ils nous achètent nos avions, chars, missiles et armes légères, que demande le peuple.
@@stanfordwillis4841 fair enough Vincent. Taking a hasty " d'où parles tu camarade?" approach I was thinking - wrongly so it seems - that you might be a gun crazy half brained "one two three viva l'Algerie" 'racaille' but it seems your thinking might stem from, directly or indirectly, knowingly or not, (or be close to) Burgat's (or Soral's) ideas (or Moisi's if you want to be more PC.) I respect and understand this and you have a point even if I disagree: as far as I'm concerned 'ils auront ma haine'. En attendant on va pas encombrer cette excellente chaîne Yankee avec nos fines gauloiseries, bonne route a toi camarade.
Honestly, out of all the Sub guns I know. I find this one to be one of the most aesthetically pleasing SMG's I've ever seen. I love the boxy simplicity of it much akin to a grease gun.
I used it in 1985 during my military training, French forces in Germany. We were on combat sessions with only blanks, but the feeling was great !!!
My first weapon in the French Army as NCO, early '80's.
Wow!! they used them that long? An awesome weapon. I always think of the movie, "The Day of the Jackel".
@@ehodfi6037 French Army used the MAT 49 for 45 years.
This is one of the coolest smgs ever produced! Simple, effective, looks badass and its french! They are still used today by many armed forces and im absolutely not wondering why!
Btw. id love to see Ian and Larry testing cool french and swiss guns!
A buddy of my dad's carried one of these in Vietnam. Had electricians tape wrapped around the grip to keep the grip safety down and filed the rear sight in half so it was essentially a U notch sight.
Damn that's cool
great idea for the folding
magwell/front grip, the dust cover and the left side charging
Thanks from Lyon in France for this video about a French weapon best regards
Very bad ass weapon, really innovative for the times, wish I had one, truly a masterpiece in a sub gun, thx for the vid.
Yes quite interesting. Back to 1991, I did my one year military service in French air force with that gun and learned each and every part of it. Remember the specific clack clack noise and it was rather hard to hit the target 🎯
My uncle (actually my cousin) got shot 3 times with one of these in 1967 in Vietnam thigh, butt, and his back. He was Marine Recon. Basically a sniper but he and his partner primarily acted as recon. After going back in 1968 he was 13 days before the end of his tour and he lost his legs at the knees from a mine. When he came back home he married and put the war behind him. Until my cousin Gloria was born and he figured that they just had a special kid then my cousin Annette was born severely mutated and when she was 2 information about Agent orange came out.
I've never seen that gun before. Very interesting. Amazing how it folds into a small package
One of my favourite weapon during 2 years of conscription with mas 49/56
That 8 pound empty sure helps keeping that puppy from bouncing. Do a Grease Gun Vs Mat 49 video, like that Grease Gun vs UMP45
Not the same caliber though, .45 has a little more kick to it
Very cool....thanks LAV. The grip safety...and that folding magwell, with finger grooves. Very nice. They obviously put a lot of thought into it, except for the sights. Geesh.
J'ai adoré cette arme, en service, et en combats Commandos notamment !
Très bonne arme. Très fiable.
i have use this sub machine gun in 1975 i always love it. " sorry for my bad english"
As far as rate of fire, I believe the European 9mmr is loaded to higher pressures than commercial America ammo. Some of the counties will also have sub gun specific loads. If this is the case with the French, it would explain the difference in cyclical rate of fire.
Right. And the primer was also very strong (ammo used : 9mm SFM, Société Française de Munitions aka Gévelot).
@@methodeetrigueur1164 Most military 9mm from that period had very tough primers as a safety thing due to the fixed pin.
Most military 9mm for SMG's from that time was like a +P load.
@@chrisbrent7487 Right but French soldiers used the same cartridges (9mm SFM) in the both MAT 49 SMG and MAC 50 pistol with no problem. Another pistol would not resist (breakage of Walther P.38 slides in Indochina for example).
I learnt to use it, when in my military drafting. We did not like it that much because the ones that we had were more or less worn and the trigger mechanism could fail : starting a burst and releasing the trigger, the gun didn't obey you and kept firing. Of course we knew it and the order, repeated many times at instruction, was to keep the gun on line on the target and wait for the magazine to be empty. But as it happened that some guys went crazy with that and had the bad idea to turn back to instructor to ask "what must I do, sir ?", the instructor was always ready to take the forearm of the shooter and the gun to put them back in line in the right direction of the shooting field. What a fun !
Very Cool SMG !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks for showing the French MAT-49, Mr. Vickers !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Je no speak le frances but this ce bon!!
Thank you Larry for reviewing all these rare arms
I did use this automatic gun during my Military Service 🇨🇵.
41ème Régiment d'Infanterie, Brittany, 1988-1989, before getting the FAMAS.
Good old fashion machine gun. Thanks for this video.
-« The base is surrounded, and you have no hope of victory beside glorious death. Wanna jump? »
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Fun fact : CIA planes and pilote were among the last planes going there to drop para
The Legion used these in Chad in the late 60s, early 70s.
I think you can still find some of these in Police and Gendarmerie arcenals in Mayotte, the Caribbean and south America.
Did they use them in Algeria too or was it too late?
@@gd442 they used them massively in algeria
@@gd442 Yes ! In Algeria war it was the king gun !
Thank you for the clarification Jugen and Alain Charles Leroy. I even looked at an old Osprey book on the French Foreign Legion and saw a couple of pictures of Leginarres carrying them in the Algerian war.
Nice one, the similar feature of folding magwell was used on the Czechoslovak ZK383H SMG..... I always wonder why it haven't seen wider use....
Awesome video thank you very much! I went to Dien Bien Phu (in 2015) and I actually found half a rusted MAT 49 magazine with part of the spring still inside on one of the old french positions just laying on the surface....
"ammo courtesy of S&B" at today's prices donating ammo to a machine gun shoot is quite the courtesy.
Love the way it folds up and becomes compact..very forward thinking for that era. Looks like a pretty sweet shooter. Thank you for everything you do LAV! ✌️
"Weights about 8lbs empty". I'm amazed at how something so small would weigh so much. I remember renting an Uzi at a range and that thing weighted like a boat anchor.
Rising Storm 2 brought me here
Same you G.I
Naw man you gotta go way back and say Project Reality Ia Drang
"We have lost objective charlie"
Ahh yes, a real bro.
I'm wiggin out, man!
Great footage Larry! Please show us some more guns from that era like the MAS-49 and the M1919.
Great weapon love nice compact long service says it all and legionnaire's love it
Hi there, at 5:01 you should have slide the charging button back to front (I was taught like that). Less risk to have a piece of cloth pinched and make the gun more dustproof.
Great presentation by the way and I completely agree about the size of the peep hole.
As weird as this might be, this is my favorite sub gun.
Montjoie Saint Denis!
Une arme faite pour la jungle.
Tres compacte et légère, très maniable et fiable.
En combat-localité, avec le poids de sa balle, son calibre de 9 mm, sa faible vitesse initiale (bonne puissance d'arrêt), c'est une arme redoutable...Beaucoup plus efficace qu'un fusil d'assaut en 5,56...ça nettoie...
fiable non pas vraiment je le sais je l ai enraillé 3 fois en 1 mois ....
@@olivierlouis8630 Le PM "s'enraille" , quand on relâche à la fois la manette de sécurité et la détente. Ce n'est pas un défaut de l'arme mais un incident de tir imputable à l'incompétence d'un tireur mal instruit qui ne connait pas son arme (comme d'habitude).....
Une arme compacte , rustique et efficace pour qui savait l'utiliser et connaître ses qques défauts , facile a nettoyer..Utilisée dans l'armée de l'air pendant mon service ...
@@elsafrei Et, cerise sur le gâteau, qui pouvait se fabriquer très rapidement au moindre coût...
Cela me rappelle des souvenirs de mon service militaire dans l'armée de l'air française. Très belles images au ralenti !
Salut à tous !
Not sure how this video found me but here it is, as soon as I saw this gun it brought back memories of my late father and the pics he shared with me in my childhood years back in France (I've been in the USA for 33 years now).
He was a paratrooper and served one of his three service years in the Algerian war.
He recounted to me how his unit had a night encounter with guerrillas,tossed a grenade with no result then in the distance he made out a silhouette running sideways across bushes, shot short bursts to the left then right and finally in the center .
Later he found the body of a young man shot across the stomach, his intended target.
He never forgot about it, nearly ended up marying an Algerian girl and though his was asked to reeinlist due to excellent service he never wanted anything to do with war again though he loved the military life,I even recall him telling me his unit was on standby to jump on Paris when Gen. Charles De gaulle and French gov took the decision to let go of this colony.
Sorry for this long winded story just touched an emotional nerve I guess.
Aloha.!
same for me i used that mat 49 in late 61to late 64 (Algeria tchad Madagascar Djibouti) living in Canada for51 years ,have a good day
@@francocanuck9435 that's quite some serious history there that you have experienced and will never leave you.
Canada is sure a faraway distance from those memories.
All my father's black and white pictures are waiting for me in those metal boxes back in Burgundy.
Respectueusement pour vôtre service et celui de mon père.
T.
@@thierry3953 i was surprised getting your mail ,i understand that your are living in the US,for my part i live in Canada in Ontario since 69 souvenir souvenir,it seem that a lots of french are still interested by mat 49,my preference was the mas 56,have a good day jc
Larry started playing rising storm 2 vietnam for free and got interested in this gun like we all did
Your recoil management is so good.
Cool 😎 little SMG there Mr.Vickers!! Remember seeing a photo of the French Foreign Legion with these in an old S.O.F magizines I'm thinking from around the 70's . Thanks Larry for the video, excellent!! Stay safe and God bless 🇺🇸☠️🇺🇸!!!
Pretty modern in terms of compactness compared to the current craze of brace stock ARs. Also, from what I've read of that era and war footage from ECPA, hardly anyone used the sights, they would use instinctive shooting from the hip for the most part.
Cool SMG, very cool. Love the portability
Très bien présentée et belles images, un excellent documentaire sur une arme que j'ai utilisé quand j'avais 20 ans. Solide, compacte et fiable; voilà ce que j'en retiens.
Mais quand l'arme était ancienne et les pièces "usées", au premier coup de feu toutes les munitions étaient tirées en rafale et sans s'arrêter, jusqu'à ce que le chargeur soit vide. Cela n'enlevait rien à la qualité de cette arme.
Google traduction: "Very well presented and beautiful images, an excellent documentary on a weapon that I used when I was 20 years old. Strong, compact and reliable; this is what I remember.
But when the weapon was old and the parts "worn", at the first shot all the ammunition was fired in bursts and without stopping, until the magazine was empty. This did not detract from the quality of this weapon."
S gun was used as a standard type gun .use because of maximum capacity rounds holder.with multiple velocity that's gets power for it's change of cartridges.
S for standard
I have one in 1981 French air Force. Very good in city.
Vickers Guide books need to be printed in higher numbers. Half of them are sold out and I don’t want to pay $300 on eBay. I’d be happy to preorder/prepay and wait a year if necessary just as long as I get them all
I saw a parts kit for this available on GunBroker and thought it looked interesting. This SMG seems to handle very well and is quite controllable!
Excellente vidéo. Merci bien petit bonjour de la part de la France.
Oh let's not forget the MAT-49 was later used in the Vietnam War after several were captured from the French IndoChina War. The difference is in the type of ammo used (Soviet 7.62-mm Tokarev rounds) and the longer barrel for the converted ones.
After Indochine war Viet-Minh conversed to a version with 7,62x25mm Tokarev for their armies because it was most common cadrige than 9mm parrabellum use by the orignal one and served in Vietnam war against American soldier, Australian, Rok,Thaï
Sten mag was from the Lanchester not the mp38/40
Agram 2000 next Mr. Vickers . Need your take on the preferred weapon of choice for many contract hitters in mother Russia during the wild 90s
Merci pour cette excellente vidéo. On savait faire des guns à l époque!
Oui...
On savait...
On savait faire des vehicules fiables aussi !!!
Maintenant tu risques d'arriver a pied ou en velo cause de pompe injection ou turbo pété !!!
Merde !
C'est pas drôle !!!
😅😂🤣
During my military service (51 years ago....), we were instructed by armorers to never shoot by keeping the trigger depressed and only after depress the handle safety. This was supposed to wear some part (I dont remind which one..)
Awesome content as usual! First time I've heard of this firearm. Thanks Larry!
The ultimate version for me is the 7.62x25mm tokarev this in that powerful round nice
nice Video, thanks for it.
i would have been great if you had close the dust cover when the bolt is in the back, just to show how this works...or wenn the bolt is forward and you charge the gun.
Gun jesus blesses thus video for sure...
That firearm is beautiful
Thanks !
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J'ai tiré des milliers de cartouches avec la MAT et je n'ai que de bonnes choses à dire sur cette arme. Quand je suis passé au Famas, bof je n'ai pas aimé, mais c'est une autre histoire. On peut faire du boulot avec le Famas que l'on ne peut pas faire avec la Mat. C'est l'évolution, mais la nostalgie est toujours là...
Idem pour moi,pas vraiment aimé le famas !
Mais j’adorais utiliser le mat49!!
By France, it was used in Indochina, in Egypt (Suez Crisis), maybe by the French Battalion in Korea (but in all archives I saw, soldiers were equipped with rifles, never saw the MAT-49), in Algeria of course, in Morocco (Ifni War), in Tunisia (Bizerte Crisis), probably in Bamileke (Cameroon) War, in the 1964 Gabonese coup d'état, in Zaire (Shaba I & Shaba II including the famous battle of Kolwezi), in Chad from 1969 to the 1980s and in the early years of the French participation in the Multinational Force in Lebanon.
Used also by other nations in Lebanon, in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, various places in Africa...
This MG is interesting except when you load the magazine. To shoot, you have to aim down and to the left because the shot will go up diagonally to the right. This MG is good for urban fights.
French paratroopers loved it for its simpler, rugged and compact design with a good rate of firing. After the French lost in the First Indo-China War, thousands fell into the hands of the Vietnamese who converted them to use the Soviet 7.62mm Tokarev pistol cartridge which were easily available due to large quantities obtained from the Soviet Union and People's Republic of China. The converted versions have a much longer barrel and have a much higher rate of firing at 900 rpm in contrast to unconverted version at 600rpm. North Vietnam had secretly supplied them to the Algerians during the Algerian War when Algeria fought to gain independence from France. During the Second Indo-China War better known as Vietnam War, many Viet Congs were armed with them along with the well-known AK47. The weapon is still used by many countries especially in Africa.
It's very effective.
And it's made for be used with 9x19 ammo more powerful than standard ammo!
A lot of handgun have be destroyed by using mat49 ammo...
....Légende urbaine , les cartouches étaient les même pour les PA : j'ai une boîte de cartouches militaires sous les yeux (de 1964).... marquages "32 cartouches de 9mm pour pistolets et pistolets mitrailleurs" lot 215 RY 64....Pour infos RY : établissements Rey Frères à Nîmes.
@@abretey si tu les tire dans un Mac 50 oui. Aucun problème, il a été conçu pour encaisser !!!!
Hors, ce n'est pas pour rien si dans le cahier des charges du Mac 50il était spécifié qu'il devait supporter le tir des munition prévue pour la mat 49 !!!
Pas mal d'arme de poing don't suffisement dimensionné pour supporter aussi l'excédent de pression...
En revanche dans un p08 c'est bybye avant la fin du chargeur...
Le p38 lui encaisse mieux déjà.
De même, toute arme moderne vas les digérer, car ils sont prévus pour supporter la pression d'épreuve bien supérieur à une pression normale... Mais à la longue... Même eux ne vont pas aimer...
1949??? Looking at this bad boy I guessed it was more modern. I want one.
I'd love to see Larry do a comparison on several sub guns side by side. In featured length.
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Hey Larry, I got my Vicker's Guide AR15 book in the mail the other day! Love it and can't believe how much info and detail there is on the subject! If anyone is on the fence about it, dont. Its an awesome book!
Please, review pindad ss2...
such a neat little critter. thank you.
in service until 1990 in french army..we changed for the famas 5.56..
good memory with good weapon but go up on left when you shoot..
Loved this in battlefield Vietnam.
Hi Mr Larry. If u can read this. Please please do a review about the veitnam era ithica shotgun. Thanks for making these vids. Have a nice day.
Something I always wonder with really old weapon shooting vids is whether or not any parts have been replaced. Like the slower cyclic rate compared to the offical one could possibly due to an old spring.
its amazing how heavy some sub guns are. Looks like itd be 4 pounds loaded
If it was aluminum sure, but this is a chunk of steel
Oh no... that's a decieving heavy bitch right there. Shot my fair share way back in the days and it was a blast but if felt heavier that it really was.
That was such a cool vid of this little Frenchie vintage! 👌🏻🇲🇫
Merci pour cette vidéo, ça reste une arme de note histoire française et de nos batailles...
Thank you for this video, it remains a weapon of note French history and our battles...
Pascal
The irony is : you can't do this in France - as Ted Nugent would say !
you couldn't own it, but you could rent it out to shoot in a shooting range for some fun, which honestly is enough a normal person wants
@ There semi auto versions of it, and the paperwork wouldn't be insane, it's just a B cat, and guys don't listen to him, gun ownership is very easy and flexible in France, especially for D and C cats (bolt actions, pump actions, semi auto .12g, collectibles pre 1900 etc), B cats such as semi auto smokeless handguns, SMGs, assault rifles or even anti tank rifles will have you fill up a bit of paperwork, but once that's done they can't take it back without you messing up, and they're fairly easy to obtain and keep. I've seen people here with collection numbering in the hundreds, a mate of mine has over 360, both C and B cats, it's just really easy, I've had my 1892 revolver and my Mauser .32 for years, nothing to it
@@crabyman3555 No it isn't, there is not normal in France, over 8 million people own weapons here, so it is normal to own weapons unless you live in the Paris area. And yes they could own it in semi auto by law
@ How do you get blacklisted ? I've commited weapon related offenses when I was young, got caught by the Paris police and processed, I was a recreational shooter then and I still am now 10 years later, how is it easy to be blacklisted ? What the heck have you done lol ? I was caught carrying in Paris nord for chrissake and I'm still a member of two shooting ranges
Although we can't legally own them in full autos, we have huge stockpiles of fully auto weapons on the black market here, I've fired stens, thomsons an mp40 and a WWI BAR here, it's really easy to find, you just have to be discreet, people in the countryside don't really care, only parisian sissies do, I don't mean that as an insult, but they just don't know weapons altogether and are usually scared of them
Yeah, but was it any good LAV? Thx
Beautiful sound..
It's more associated to the Algeria war for us in France. In 1994 we (military service) were still using it due to the huge amount of ammo available (produced for a long Algeria war). I was given a FAMAS for 1 day only, as a prize for behaving!!!
it was the first gun I see it closely. I was 4 years old when the Lebanese civil war started and the Lebanese army still had some Mat49's. My grandmother house was close to the military hospital in Beirut and we used to pass by z guard who used to be equiped with a Mat49. Each time I used to pass near this guard I used to ask him about the name of his weapon and used to reply "Mat" without the 49. At that period the AK47 was called in the streets of Beirut Klashin and the FN Fal just Fal and the G3 was HK and just the M16 was M16
Love the music reminds me of Terminator 2 scenes eerie!