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| Saturday, December
15, 2012, 11:25 AM |
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| Israeli
army reserve forces soldiers to be equipped soon with the new Tavor TAR-21
assault rifle. |
The
Israeli military will soon begin equipping reserve forces with its most
advanced assault rifle Tavor TAR-21 , Ma'ariv daily reported on Thursday,
December 13, 2012. Plans to train and equip reservists with the rifle
Tavor TAR-21 were accelerated in the wake of Operation Pillar of Defense,
the army's eight-day airstrike in the Gaza Strip last month to curb rocket
attacks.
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Israeli-made
IMI Tavor TAR-21 assault rifle
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"It's a significant challenge," Major Roniel
Turgeman, head of the Weapons Department in the Infantry and Paratroopers
Command, said of the plan to equip all of the army's units with the
new rifle.
"We have to take every reserve soldier and retrain him in using
a new weapon," he told Ma'ariv.
Designed and manufactured by Israel Weapon Industries (IWI), the Tavor
is a bullpup rifle chambered for 5.56mm NATO ammunition and has a build
in laser red dot sight. Its ergonomics and lightweight make it more
suited to urban warfare than the M16.
Some Israeli infantry units have recently been issued with the more
advanced Micro Tavor, which is slated to eventually replace the bigger
version.
The army will begin training reserve soldiers in using the Tavor in
2013, while the process of equipping all of them with the weapon is
expected to last several years, the report said.
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