The FX-05 "Xiuhcoatl" (Fire Serpent in the Nahuatl language) is an assault rifle, designed and built by the Dirección General de Industria Militar del Ejército. It is currently in use by the Mexican Army. The rifle was officially presented in the military parade on September 16 2006, in the hands of the Special Forces Airmobile Group, GAFE. (Grupo Aeromóvil de Fuerzas Especiales). The redesign was in charge CIADTIM and SDN and all of its parts are built in Mexico.
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| - The FX-05 "Xiuhcoatl" (Fire Serpent in the Nahuatl language) is an assault rifle, designed and built by the Dirección General de Industria Militar del Ejército. It is currently in use by the Mexican Army. The rifle was officially presented in the military parade on September 16 2006, in the hands of the Special Forces Airmobile Group, GAFE. (Grupo Aeromóvil de Fuerzas Especiales). The redesign was in charge CIADTIM and SDN and all of its parts are built in Mexico.
- The FX-05 "Xiuhcoatl" (literally, "turquoise-serpent" in Classical Nahuatl; metaphorically or descriptively, "fire serpent") is a Mexican assault rifle, designed and built by the Dirección General de Industria Militar del Ejército (Directorate General of the Army Military Industry). The rifle was officially presented in the military parade on September 16, 2006, in the hands of the Special Forces Airmobile Group, GAFE. (Grupo Aeromóvil de Fuerzas Especiales). The design was coordinated by the Centro de Investigación Aplicada y Desarrollo Tecnológico de la Industria Militar or CIADTIM (Center of Applied Research and Technology Development Military Industry) and SDN and all of its parts are built in Mexico. It is currently in use by the Mexican Army.
- The 6.8x43mm SPC wildcat round was considered during its development, but was dropped in favor of the more standardized 5.56x45mm NATO round. The Sharpshooter variant may still chamber the 6.8mm SPC. It comes in Assault Rifle, Assault Carbine, Short Carbine, Sharpshooter, and Light Machinegun variants. Nearly all use a side-folding adjustable stock that folds to the right and has a combination carrying handle / integrated optical scope that attaches to a Picatinny rail on the top of the reciever. The fixed forend has a picatinny rail along its top, a short accessory rail for bipods and lights along its bottom and has attachable rails on its sides. The Sharpshooter variant has a fixed adjustable stock, the Machinegun variant has a quick-change heavy barrel with bipod, and the Short Carbine
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| - FX-05 "Xiuhcoatl"
- A second-generation FX-05 on display at a Mexican Army public relations event in Constitution Square. Note the black colored finish and the mounted red dot scope.
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| - Dirección General de Industria Militar del Ejército
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| - Alfredo Oropeza Garnica, Jose Antonio Landeros
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| - The FX-05 "Xiuhcoatl" (Fire Serpent in the Nahuatl language) is an assault rifle, designed and built by the Dirección General de Industria Militar del Ejército. It is currently in use by the Mexican Army. The rifle was officially presented in the military parade on September 16 2006, in the hands of the Special Forces Airmobile Group, GAFE. (Grupo Aeromóvil de Fuerzas Especiales). The redesign was in charge CIADTIM and SDN and all of its parts are built in Mexico.
- The FX-05 "Xiuhcoatl" (literally, "turquoise-serpent" in Classical Nahuatl; metaphorically or descriptively, "fire serpent") is a Mexican assault rifle, designed and built by the Dirección General de Industria Militar del Ejército (Directorate General of the Army Military Industry). The rifle was officially presented in the military parade on September 16, 2006, in the hands of the Special Forces Airmobile Group, GAFE. (Grupo Aeromóvil de Fuerzas Especiales). The design was coordinated by the Centro de Investigación Aplicada y Desarrollo Tecnológico de la Industria Militar or CIADTIM (Center of Applied Research and Technology Development Military Industry) and SDN and all of its parts are built in Mexico. It is currently in use by the Mexican Army.
- The 6.8x43mm SPC wildcat round was considered during its development, but was dropped in favor of the more standardized 5.56x45mm NATO round. The Sharpshooter variant may still chamber the 6.8mm SPC. It comes in Assault Rifle, Assault Carbine, Short Carbine, Sharpshooter, and Light Machinegun variants. Nearly all use a side-folding adjustable stock that folds to the right and has a combination carrying handle / integrated optical scope that attaches to a Picatinny rail on the top of the reciever. The fixed forend has a picatinny rail along its top, a short accessory rail for bipods and lights along its bottom and has attachable rails on its sides. The Sharpshooter variant has a fixed adjustable stock, the Machinegun variant has a quick-change heavy barrel with bipod, and the Short Carbine variant has a shorter forend. The weapon and its accessories come in Black, Dark Green and Desert Tan, as well as a series of camoflauge finishes. Its proprietary 30-round magazines are not STANAG-compliant, but are supposedly STANAG-compatible. They are semi-translucent, but the magazine base and follower come in the same colors as the weapon. The magazines come with integral lugs (like that of the SIG SG-550 series) to allow them to be fitted together like they were clamped to aid in speedloading.
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