Editing FN FAL (section)

=== South Africa ===
The FAL was produced under licence<ref name="worldpolicy2000" /> in South Africa by [[Lyttleton Engineering Works]], where it is known as the R1. After a competition between the German [[Heckler & Koch G3|G3]] rifle, the Armalite [[AR-10]], and the FN FAL, the [[South African Defence Force]] adopted three main variants of the FAL: a rifle with the designation R1, a "lightweight" variant of the FN FAL 50.64 with folding butt, fabricated locally under the designation R2, and a model designed for police use not capable of automatic fire under the designation R3.<ref>Ezell, 1988, p. 328</ref> 200,000 were destroyed in UN-sponsored "Operation Mouflon" in 2001.

A number of other variants of the R1 were built, the R1 HB, which had a heavy barrel and bipod, the R1 Sniper, which could be fitted with a scope and the R1 Para Carbine, which used a Single Point IR sight and had a shorter barrel.<ref>Small Arms Illustrated, 2010</ref> R1 was standard issue in the SADF until the introduction of the [[Vektor R4|R4]] in the early 1980s. Still used by the SANDF as a designated marksman rifle.{{citation needed|date=March 2022}} The first South African-produced rifle, serial numbered 200001, was presented to the then Prime Minister, [[Hendrik Verwoerd]], by Armscor and is now on view at the [[South African National Museum of Military History]] in [[Johannesburg]].<ref>{{cite web|title=History of the FN-F.A.L. Rifle in South Africa|url=http://www.saaaca.org.za/?page_id=916|website=Southern African Arms and Ammunition Collectors Association|access-date=23 November 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151123141639/http://www.saaaca.org.za/?page_id=916|archive-date=23 November 2015}}</ref>