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It’s raison d’etre in most cases being the token “body armour defeating” weapon.īeing the interesting pistol that it is, it was only a matter of time before the F.N.

FIVE SEVEN TV

Five seveN – Image courtesy of Five seveN has become a little bit of a cult hit though, with it appearing in countless games, films and TV shows. The Belgian military is one of only a handful of users of the F.N. It worked very well, but ultimately… It’s more expensive than 9mm or 5.56 and so it’s remained a rather niche calibre outside of a handful of units and civilian owners. Both weapons fire a bottlenecked 5.7mm round, designed to travel at high velocity and penetrate body armour. To cut a long story short, the shoulder fired weapon became the P90 and the handheld weapon that F.N. Five seveN was developed in response to a NATO requirement for a pair of personal defence weapons, one shoulder fired and the other a handgun and with an increased armour piercing capability over the standard 9mm parabellum round. And anyone who’s played Splinter Cell should understand the need to own an F.N. I also spent a portion of my teens playing Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell.

It’s not everyone’s cup of tea, so why did I buy it? Well… I’m somewhat of a collector.

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