The FN Model 30-11 was a Belgian 7.62x51 mm NATO sniper rifle produced by FN Herstal in the 1970s and 1980s. It built on Mauser-pattern bolt-action practice and was intended for military and police precision use at a time when many NATO users were formalizing sniper rifle requirements.
The rifle used a conventional bolt action, heavy barrel, detachable magazine, and optical sight mounting. Its strength was reliability and familiar gunsmithing rather than radical architecture. Compared with later chassis rifles, its ergonomics were less modular, but it remained a serious precision system for its era.
FN 30-11 rifles served with Belgian and other users before newer precision rifles displaced them. The weapon is useful in the database because it captures the late Cold War transition from accurized service-rifle thinking to dedicated bolt-action sniper systems with standardized optics and ammunition.
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