This led to them ultimately working with Spain on its CETME 58, which ultimately became the G3. Even the US strongly considered adopting it, before settling on the M14 West Germany had initially adopted it too, utilizing it as the G1, but when they wanted to obtain a license from FN to domestically produce the rifle, they were turned down, probably owing to the fact that Germany had steamrolled over FN's home country of Belgium twice in the last half-century. It was so popular that almost every Western and non-communist nation adopted it as their main rifle. The FN FAL is considered the classic post-war battle rifle and the Western counterpart to the AK-47. However, when NATO standardized on the 7.62x51mm at American insistence, FN beefed up the FAL to handle the more powerful round, and the rest was history.
Originally, the FAL was meant to be an assault rifle, with prototypes chambered in intermediate rounds such as German 7.92x33mm (only the very first prototype there was never any intention to go to production with this particular round) and. The FAL was designed by Dieudonne Saive, who is probably more famous for his work on the Browning Hi-Power, and was the protegé of the great John Moses Browning. note Top: Early L1A1 with wooden furniture, Bottom: Later L1A1 with black plastic furnitureNicknamed "the right arm of the free world," the FAL ("Fusil Automatique Léger", French for "Light Automatic Rifle") was one of the three major battle rifles designed for the NATO 7.62x51mm round (the other two were the M14 and H&K G3).
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