FAMAS

The FAMAS (Fusil d'Assaut de la Manufacture d'Armes de Saint-Etienne, French for "Assault Rifle of the Saint-Etienne weapon factory") is a French-made assault rifle. Its development began in the late 60’s during the Vietnam era and it is in wide usage within the French military today, adopted in 1978, as the service rifle of the French army. It uses a bullpup layout, and the F1 variant fires the 5.56mm NATO round from a 25-round magazine, but the later G1 model can use 30 round NATO STANAG magazines. It is featured in Battlefield 2: Euro Force, Battlefield 3: Back to Karkand and Battlefield Play4free.

Battlefield 2: Euro Force
The FAMAS is the standard assault rifle issued to the EU Medic kit. It has decent damage, fair accuracy, moderate recoil, and a high rate of fire at 900 rounds per minute. It is also equipped with a 4x magnification scope on its carrying handle, comes with a 30-round magazine, and can fire in three-rounds burst aside of fully-automatic

Battlefield 3
The FAMAS was added in the Back to Karkand expansion along with nine other weapons. The FAMAS was first seen on the "Battlefield 3: Back to Karkand Gameplay Premiere Trailer" with a Holographic Sight and a Laser Sight attached.

The FAMAS has the highest fire rate of all fully automatic weapons but is hindered by extremely obtrusive iron sights which block much of the peripheral vision. It also has some of the highest and most unpredictabe recoil out of all of the Assault weapons, second only to the G3A3, as well as the highest first shot recoil of all assault weapons. Additionally, it has the highest spread of the assault weapons when aiming down sights, on par with the F2000. All of these factors make the FAMAS a very effective close range weapon. It can be used effectively at medium range but like other assault rifles it starts to struggle in long range engagements and is particularily useful when fired from the hip. However, grouping the smaller magazine size of 25+1, with a high fire rate and long reload, ammunition may become a problem.

The FAMAS is the first unlockable assault weapon of the expansion pack and is obtained through the completion of the assignment "Best Friend Forever", which requires completing the following challenges:
 * Performing 10 revives
 * Performing 10 heals

Trivia

 * In Battlefield 3, the Battlelog icon of the FAMAS shows it without its magazine
 * Battlefield 3s FAMAS formerly had slightly different stats on each platform although it has been corrected as of the latest patch.
 * In Battlefield Play4Free the FAMAS's extremely high rate of fire is only comparable with the M134 Dillion Minigun. as being the fasted firing gun in-game.
 * In Battlefield 3 it was complained to be "overpowered" and as a result of the comunity asking for the weapon to have a serious downgrade (nerf) it was downgraded to the point where it was practically unusable in any other situation then close quarters it later recieved an accuracy increase after complaints of the weapon being "unusable".