11 Facts About IMI Galil

IMI Galil is a family of Israeli-made automatic rifles chambered for the 5.

Originally designed by Yisrael Galili and Yakov Lior in the late 1960s, the Galil was first produced by the state-owned Israel Military Industries and is exported by the privatized Israel Weapon Industries.

However, issuance of the IMI Galil was delayed by the sudden onset of the Yom Kippur War in 1973.

The IMI Galil SAR was kept in use by some rear-line services, including the Knesset Guard and the Artillery and Armored Corps, until around 2004.

IMI Galil is hammer-fired and has a trigger mechanism patterned after the trigger used in the American M1 Garand.

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IMI Galil prototypes used a stamped and riveted sheet metal steel receiver, but due to the higher operating pressures of the 5.

The only stamped components on the IMI Galil are the magazine-catch, trigger guard, dust cover and the magazines.

IMI Galil is fed from a curved, steel box magazine with a 35-round capacity, a 50-round capacity or a special color-coded 12-round magazine blocked for use exclusively with ballistite cartridges, used to launch rifle grenades.

Standard stock found on the IMI Galil is a rough-copy of the FN-FAL Paratrooper stock, with modifications for simpler production and ease of use.

Unlike the FAL folding stock, the IMI Galil uses no locking button and is operated entirely by a pin and spring pivoting mechanism; to fold the stock, the "L" bracket on the stock portion is pressed down to where the spring is fully compressed and the entire stock is allowed to pivot on the buttstock hinge.

MAR, or the Micro IMI Galil, is a reduced-size version of the IMI Galil SAR, weighing 2.