[archy]

apparently the Galil hasn't been their weapon of choice for the IDF ... at least I haven't seen it mentioned much ... maybe they're just trying to be "NATO"ish ... I dunno ... perhaps our Jewish friends or military guys have some input?

U.S. Foreign Military Assistance Programing funding has to be spent on U.S. produced products, so the Israelis are happily accepting new US M16s and rebuild kits for the ones already in service, which happily gives them about 4 M16-family rifles for less than the price they could spend on producing a Galil or Tavor of their own. And in the pricing of military equipment sold abroad, the Israelis figure in the expense of replacing the weapon sold withe a newer one for their own use in the cost of the item, as with their foreign Tavor sales to Croatia and sales of Galils and heavier weapons to Estonia.

For the same reason, the Israelis have pretty much quit development of their own sniper rifles and are happily buying Barrett M82A1s and Remington 700/M40A3/M24s instead.

[FNG]

The United States Colonial Marines sent to LV-426 were equipped with the M40A1 pulse rifle. It fire a standard 10mm caseless light armor piercing round, and it is equipped with 30mm over and under pump action grenade launchers.

[Bobby777]

good info ... I guess if it's American-funded I don't have a problem that American goods must be used ... I don't like giving them to the PA "security force" though ...