It was not until 1908 that Mexican factories were retooled and ready to produce the rifle as a local product. The wholly Mexican-produced rifles were now designated as the "Fusil Porfirio Diaz Sistema Mondragon Modelo 1908". The key differentiating feature with these models was in their standard 20-round shot capacity. Further production plants came online thereafter and manufacture of the indigenous weapon spanned up until the middle of the Second World War in 1943.
The Mexican Revolution (1910-1920) changed several homefront factors across the country. By 1911, the movement keen on removing then-President Diaz and only 400 Mondragon Rifles had been delivered to this point from the initial production order. The subsequent governmental upheaval cancelled the Mexican-SIG contract concerning the Mondragon Rifle. This left SIG with the remaining portion of the 4,000-strong Mondragon order with no buyers. SIG did manage to sell off several hundred of the type to interested parties around the globe and the authorities of the German Empire eventually procured the remaining 3,000 rifles in 1914 - the beginning of World War 1.
These German-own Mondragon Rifles were issued to both infantrymen and aviators and some were passed to the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In the former role, the rifle proved too prone to collecting environmental debris that resulted in frequent jamming. As such, the rifles were eventually removed from frontline service. In the latter role, the weapons were fitted with 30-round helical magazines and designated as the "Fliegerselbstladekarabine Modell 1915" (literally meaning "Pilot's Self-Loading Carbine Model 1915") and issued to scout fighter planes to help off-set the limited supplies of German aerial machine guns. However, once production of machine guns kept up with relative demand, the Mondragon as an aerial implement was altogether dropped. Some Mondragon Rifles were further issued to elements of the German Navy and saw service up until the end of the war in 1918.
After the war, Mondragon supply dictated that Mexican authorities try to sell their unique rifle on the open global market. Customers ultimately ranged from all over the world including both local allies and friendly nations as well as those parties willing to pay for local-license production rights. Post-war and inter-war Germany, the Japanese Empire and Austria all elected to produce the rifle at home. Production was such that the rifle was available in some numbers by the start of World War 2 and some even were fitted with optic sights for the specialized sniper role. Mexico directly supplied their Mondragon Rifles to guerilla forces in the Philippines to stave off the invading Japanese Army. Vichy French forces also fielded the rifle for a time as did the forces of China and the Soviet Union.
The Mondragon saw future actions in several other limited and wide-ranging conflicts including the Korean War and the Vietnam War.
Mexico utilized the Mondragon family line of firearms in some form or another up until 1949. Some foreign operators continue to use the type even today.
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