IMI Galil - Users

Users

  • Bolivia
  • Botswana
  • Brazil
  • Chile
  • Colombia: Standard issue rifle. Produced under license by Indumil. Also adopted the Galil ACE rifle by the middle of 2010, produced by Indumil.
  • Costa Rica
  • Democratic Republic of Congo
  • Djibouti
  • El Salvador
  • Estonia: Uses 5.56mm versions of the Galil AR, SAR, ARM and the 7.62mm Galil Sniper.
  • Georgia Uses GALATZ sniper and Micro-Galil assault rifles
  • Guatemala 3,000 ACE
  • Haiti
  • India
  • Indonesia: Komando Pasukan Katak (Kopaska) tactical diver group and Komando Pasukan Khusus (Kopassus) special forces group.
  • Israel: Israel Defense Forces and Knesset Guard.
  • Italy: The Italian firearms manufacturing firm Vincenzo Bernardelli S.r.l. manufactured under licence quantities of the Galil assault rifle in two different models for governmental use in the 1980s. The Bernardelli Mod.377 VB-STR assault rifle was an outright clone of the Galil AR/ARM variant, while the Bernardelli Mod.378 VB-SR assault carbine was a modified clone of the Galil SAR with a different magazine well that accepted STANAG magazines, much similar in concept and look to the above-mentioned optional magazine adapter currently available for the Israeli-made models, except that the Bernardelli VB-SR could be manufactured with permanent STANAG magazine well modification on demand. The rifles competed to the trial for the adoption of a new 5.56x45mm NATO caliber rifle, but lost to the Beretta 70/90 assault weapons system. However, as of today, both models result by official schedules to be in the inventories of the Italian National Police, and are known to be deployed with the NOCS team.
  • Lesotho
  • Mexico: Secretaría de Seguridad Pública.
  • Mongolia
  • Myanmar: Tatmadaw, Myanmar Police Force, Combat Police battalions. Produced locally in a modified form as EMERK-3.
  • Nepal
  • Nicaragua
  • Paraguay: National Police.
  • Peru
  • Philippines
  • Portugal: 5.56mm AR and ARM versions used by the Portuguese Army airborne infantry.
  • Rwanda
  • South Africa: Standard assault rifle of the South African National Defence Force. Produced under license in a modified form as the R4 by Denel Land Systems.
  • South Sudan
  • Swaziland
  • Trinidad and Tobago
  • Vietnam: Uses Galil AR and Galil Sniper.

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