• Dieudonné Joseph Saive (French: [djødɔne ʒɔzɛf sɛːv]; 23 May 1888 – 12 October 1970) was a Belgian small arms designer who designed several well-known...
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  • Saive, Wallonia, district of the municipality of Blegny, Belgium Saiye, Ghana, also known as Saive Dieudonné Saive, Belgian arms designer Jean-Michel Saive...
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  • Automatic Rifle) is a battle rifle designed in Belgium in 1953 by Dieudonné Saive and manufactured by FN Herstal. During the Cold War the FAL was adopted...
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  • an autoloading battle rifle designed by Belgian small arms designer Dieudonné Saive in 1947. It was adopted by the militaries of Argentina, Belgium, the...
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    well-known as the Browning Hi-Power. The weapon was finalized by FN's Dieudonné Saive and did not appear until 1935, nearly a decade after Browning's death;...
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  • African politician Dieudonné Owona (born 1986), Cameroonian football player Dieudonné Saive (1889–1973), Belgian small arms designer Dieudonné Yarga (born 1986)...
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    design by American firearms inventor John Browning, and completed by Dieudonné Saive at FN Herstal. Browning died in 1926, several years before the design...
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    small blowback-operated semi-automatic pistol designed by Belgium-born Dieudonné Saive chambered in .25 ACP (6.35x15 mm). The pistol features a six-round...
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    design merit and was eventually completed in 1935 by Belgian designer Dieudonné Saive. Released as the Fabrique Nationale GP35, it was more popularly known...
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    1981–present Used by See Users Production history Designer John Browning Dieudonné Saive Designed 1973 Manufacturer Rifle Factory Ishapore Produced 1977–present...
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    licensed version of the FN FAL from Fabrique Nationale. Created by Dieudonné Saive, the FAL was itself a re-designed version of FN's own design for an...
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    belt-feeding mechanism. The work was started in the late 1940s by Dieudonné Saive and finished by Ernest Vervier in 1953, with Swedish trials beginning...
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    Belgium Service history Wars See conflicts Production history Designer Dieudonné Saive Designed 1947–1953 (FN FAL) Manufacturer Fabrique Nationale (FN) Harrington...
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  • 10-round magazine. Fabrique Nationale's Belgian design team, led by Dieudonné Saive, worked in Britain throughout the war, having escaped the German occupation...
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    2002), American gunsmith and co-founder of Sturm, Ruger & Company. Dieudonné Saive (1889–1973), Belgian small arms designer, inventor of the FN Model...
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    (GP-35) (the latter in cooperation with his father's Belgian assistant, Dieudonné Saive). In 1935, he returned to Utah as president of Browning Arms Company...
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    Commonwealth (See Users) Wars See Conflicts Production history Designer Dieudonné Saive Ernest Vervier Designed 1947–1953 Manufacturer Royal Small Arms Factory...
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     United Kingdom  United States  Uruguay  South Vietnam  Vietnam  Zaire Dieudonné Saive M2 Stinger Maxim-Tokarev List of U.S. Army weapons by supply catalog...
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    originator of the "Big Bang" theory of the origin of the universe Dieudonné Saive (1888–1970), small arms engineer, designer of the FN FAL rifle Rennequin...
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    and a mechanical rate-reducing fire control mechanism designed by Dieudonné Saive, located in the trigger guard-pistol grip housing. Some of these FN...
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    design by American firearms inventor John Browning, and completed by Dieudonné Saive at Fabrique Nationale (FN) of Herstal, Belgium. Browning died in 1926...
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  • 1963) 19 March – Léon Scieur, coureur cycliste (died 1969) 23 May – Dieudonné Saive, small arms designer (died 1970) 14 July – Odile Defraye, cyclist (died...
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  •  Belarus (BLR) Aleksey Medvedev Wrestling 20  Belgium (BEL) Jean-Michel Saive Table tennis 21  Belize (BIZ) Eugène Muslar Athletics 22  Benin (BEN) Laure...
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