Durante la reciente Feria de Defensa y Seguridad LAAD 2019 realizada en Brasil, la empresa IMBEL anunció el lanzamiento de la producción en serie de su fusil de asalto Ca IA2 en calibre 7.62mm. Emplea una plataforma base de excelencia (El FAL), con la incorporación de accesorios de todo tipo y el empleo de polímero en muchas de sus partes, pero manteniendo el indiscutible calibre 7.62.
During the recent LAAD 20019 Defence and Security exhibition in Rio de Janeiro, State-owned IMBEL – Indústria de Material Bélico do Brasil announced that the company’s Fábrica de Itajubá (Itajubá Factory), in Minas Gerais State, is currently getting ready to start mass production of its Ca 7.62x51mm IA2 semi-auto carbine. This includes not only tooling up for the process on an internal basis, but also acquiring bulk material for the weapons’ manufacture and contracting third-party suppliers, among other required steps. Formal, official approval of the gun as a “controlled product” by the Brazilian Army was granted in September, 2017 following an intensive test program carried out by the Service’s CAEx – Centro de Avaliações do Exército (Army Evaluations Center), the former, highly-regarded Campo de Provas da Marambaia (Marambaia Proving Grounds), in Rio de Janeiro.
