Guns, especially military small arms can be expression of the global events unfolding at the time of their production and usage. Such was the products of Stoner and Kalashnikov, the AR-15 and the AK-47. These two military assault rifles became the symbols of the struggle between the East and West.
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The Eagle and Bear, the Communists and the Free World. NATO and Warsaw Pact. 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. 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. 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. The Israeli Military Industries (IMI) Galil assault rifle would be the product of that desire. 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.
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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. If that statement doesn't make any sense, any you didn't live through the Cold War. 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. For decades, the threat of World War III and mutual assured nuclear destruction loomed over our heads. Despite a few tense moments, like 1962 and 1973, the two superpowers never engaged in open warfare, and the nuclear arsenal slept soundly. 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. The Galil would also be born during a time when the global community became more involved in Middle East policies, events, and politics.
Is the Galil a Bastard Lovechild of the AR-15 and AK-47? When I first learned about the Galil, some people said that it was a combination of the M16 and the AK47. Well, sort of. When it comes to the world of military grade assault rifles, the global firearms market was divided up into the AK-47, the FN FAL, and the M16.
Often, loyalty to one superpower might that you used their assault rifle, the Israelis were different. The Jewish state was surrounded by their enemies, and they need a unifying weapon system with the reliability of the Soviet Kalashnikov rifle, but fired the 5.56mm NATO round that was better in terms of full-automatic fire accuracy.
In someways, the Galil was a fusion of certain elements of both assault rifles. There is another parent of the weapon: the AK from another mother, the Finnish Valmet M62. Some consider the Valmet M62 assault rifle the “Cadillac” of the AK world, due to correcting a few of the original AK design issues. The M62 was used by the IMI design team as a basis for their own AK clone, and some consider the M62 the real father of the Galil (this is starting to be like an episode of Maury Povich!). Confirming this further, the Galil prototypes were built with Finnish made M62 receivers. The Finnish Western AKs were seen in American action movies, masquerading as an AK.
In the end, the Galil has been called the best AK clone that chambers the 5.56x45mm cartridge. Much has been made of several unique elements 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 variant of the Israeli rifle the bottle appears.