MAS-36 Rifle



"Well, that's how you wanna see what would the MAS-36 rifle would work. This was also known as the MAS Modèle 36, or the Fusil à répétition 7 mm 5 M. 36. That sounds pretty cool when it long past World War II, but now they're being used for a very, very long time long after that, even when you can see it in the First Indochina War, the Algerian War, the Suez Crisis and many more. Oh, and now in the Resistance War Against Sugarland."

--Su Ji-Hoon, Baroness Von Bon Bon's Finest Hour

The MAS Modèle 36, also known as the Fusil à répétition 7 mm 5 M. 36, is a military bolt-action rifle. First adopted in 1936 by France and intended to replace the Berthier and Lebel series of service rifles, it saw service long past the World War II period. It was manufactured from late 1937 onward by Manufacture d'Armes de Saint-Étienne (MAS), one of several government-owned arms factories in France. Only 250,000 MAS-36 rifles were available to equip the French infantry during the Battle of France in 1940. Mass production finally caught up after World War II and MAS-36 rifles became widely used in service during the First Indochina War, the Algerian War and the Suez Crisis. Altogether, about 1.1 million MAS-36 rifles had been manufactured when production ceased in 1952.