The Galil is a family of Israeli small arms designed by Yisrael Galil and Yaacov Lior in the late 1960s and produced by Israel Military Industries Ltd (now Israel Weapon Industries Ltd) of Ramat HaSharon. The rifle design borrowed heavily from the AK-47 and had a modified gas diversion system similar to the AK-47 to reduce the recoil of the rifle making it easier to fire especially in automatic mode.
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length (km)
0.85
weight (kg)
3750.0
origin
Israel
type
Assault rifle
used in war
2013 Lahad Datu standoff, Colombian conflict (1964–present), War in Afghanistan (2001–present), Unified Task Force, Iraq War, 1982 Lebanon War, Moro insurgency in the Philippines, Guatemalan Civil War, South African Border War
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