
So, why does the Galil have a bottle opener? When the Galil was being designed, field-used This is a little notch that fits a Coca-Colaīottle nicely. Opener, the real bottle opener is actually located in the rear of the foregrip, While you could use the wire-cutter for a bottle Gun variant, the ARM, and it is NOT located in the forward bipod-wire cutterĪssembly (looks like a claw) as often seen online. The bottle opener is only on the light machine Variant of the Israeli rifle the bottle appears. Is the Galil a Bastard Lovechild of the AR-15 and AK-47?Įlements incorporated into the Galil, especially the bottle opener, The bottle opener itself is the stuff of myth and legend on the Galil, however, many are mistaken on where the bottle opener is located and on which The Galil would also be born during a time when the global community became more involved in Middle East policies, events, and politics. While under the threat of a nuclear holocaust, the US and Russia fought proxy wars,like Afghanistan and Vietnam, and some have considered the Arab-Israeli conflicts as proxy wars between the Superpowers. Despite a few tense moments, like 19, the two superpowers never engaged in open warfare, and the nuclear arsenal slept soundly. For decades, the threat of World War III and mutual assured nuclear destruction loomed over our heads. After World War II up until the fall of the wall in 1989, the United States with NATO and other allied nations around the world squared off against the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact and their allied nations. If that statement doesn't make any sense, any you didn't live through the Cold War. When the Galil was developed, the world was a very different place than today, and it someways, it was more unstable, and yet more stable. Personally, the Galil is one of my all time favorite assault rifles, and I would love to own one. FWS will be discussing one of the more interesting combat-tested assault rifles of the 20th century in this installment of the continuing Forgotten Weapons blog series. However, by mid-1990's, the IDF appeared to have abandoned the Galil for the Colt M-16 and M4 carbines, placing the Galil labored into mechanized and artillery units and Israeli Law Enforcement. The Israeli Military Industries (IMI) Galil assault rifle would be the product of that desire. However, events after the Six Day War in 1967, the Israeli military turned internally due to threat of arms embargo for production of an home-grown assault rifle. However, in Israel during the 1970's through the 1990's, this ally of the United States would fluctuation between the AR-15, the AK-47/74, the FN FAL, and their own domestically produced military small arms. Often the loyalties of nations caught between these two superpowers during the Cold War could be clearly seen in which assault rifle their soldiers carried into battle.
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The Eagle and Bear, the Communists and the Free World. These two military assault rifles became the symbols of the struggle between the East and West. Such was the products of Stoner and Kalashnikov, the AR-15 and the AK-47. Guns, especially military small arms can be expression of the global events unfolding at the time of their production and usage.
