FAD - Fusil Automático Doble

FAD - Fusil Automático Doble refers to the Fusil Automático Doble, a Peruvian bullpup assault rifle associated with SIMA Electrónica. GlobalMilitary identifies it as a Peruvian bullpup assault rifle designed in 2008 and chambered in 5.56 x 45 mm NATO, while the English-language summary gives the designer as Salomón Braga Lozo. The weapon is important less because of wide combat service and more because it represents a domestic Peruvian effort to produce a compact service rifle around national industrial capacity.

The FAD's design is unusual among small arms. Open sources list a 3.6 kg weight, 814 mm overall length, 45 cm barrel, 30-round magazine, and roughly 550 rounds per minute cyclic rate. Its bullpup layout keeps barrel length while reducing overall length, and the weapon is associated with a 40 x 46 mm grenade-launcher concept. That compact dual-weapon idea explains the name, Double Automatic Rifle, but it also adds mechanical and ergonomic complexity compared with simpler service rifles.

Operationally, the FAD should be described conservatively. GlobalMilitary frames it as Peru's first nationally produced rifle and notes a low unit-cost rationale, but the available open-source record does not show broad international adoption. The rifle is linked to Peruvian service and internal-security context rather than large-scale export. For an equipment page, the valuable content is the industrial and doctrinal context: Peru explored a domestic bullpup solution rather than simply importing a standard NATO-pattern rifle.