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Model 62

Pre-1968

Exc. V.G. Fair N/A N/A N/A

Pre-1986 conversions of semi-automatic version

Exc. V.G. Fair 12000 9500 N/A

Valmet M78

This model is a heavy-barrel version of the Valmet M76. Barrel length is 18.75". It is offered in 7.62x39mm and 5.56x45mm calibers as well as few in 7.62 NATO. Marked “VALMET Jyvaskyla M78” on the right side of the receiver. Rate of fire is about 650 rounds per minute and magazine capacity is 15 or 30 rounds. Weight is about 10.3 lbs. Produced from 1978 to 1986.

Courtesy private NFA collection

Pre-1968

Exc. V.G. Fair N/A N/A N/A

Pre-1986 conversions of semi-automatic version

Exc. V.G. Fair 12500 9500 N/A

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FRANCE

French Military Conflicts, 1870-Present

With the French defeat in the Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871, Napoleon III was ousted and the Third Republic established. France was involved in overseas colonial expansion in North Africa and Indochina. The French army bore the brunt of heavy fighting during World War I. During the war, France had 8,600,000 men under arms, of which 5,714,000 were killed or wounded, a casualty rate of 66 percent. France surrendered to Germany in 1940 and was occupied by German troops. In unoccupied France the Vichy government was headed by Marshall Petain. General Charles de Gaulle led the Free French government in exile. In the summer of 1944 the allied armies drove the German troops out of France, and when the end of the war came in 1945 a Fourth Republic was formed in 1946. The French Army received a stunning defeat in Indochina at Dien Bien Phu (1954) and other elements of the French military were busy in Algeria in that country’s war for independence against France. In 1958 Charles de Gaulle returned to power to lead the Fifth Republic and attempted to restore French world prestige. France was involved with the U.S. in Desert Storm in Kuwait as well as a NATO member in various “peacekeeping” ventures.