It seems that the Tavor Rifle is getting orders under the radar. This photo of a Thai Soldier fielding this weapon is the first time I've seen anyone from their military using it.A Thai army soldier orders a couple to follow the directions at a road blockade in Bangkok May 20, 2010. Thai authorities restored order in Bangkok on Thursday after a night of rioting and fires that veered towards anarchy as troops took control of an encampment occupied by thousands of anti-government protesters for six weeks.
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ReplyDeleteI think that Thailand is actually the largest user of Tavors. According to Wikipedia, they've received or ordered about 45,000 weapons Link
didn't know that before I posted it CBD. i thought i kept up with stuff like this. i guess i need to keep an ear closer to the ground.
ReplyDeleteIt's pretty quiet...the marketing of the Tavor and its successes has been surprisingly low-key.
ReplyDeleteIn general, lots of countries like the technology that Israel can provide them, but Israel is still a pariah state--nobody wants to have big press releases sent out talking about how Israel upgraded their old MiG-21s/Super Tucanos/F-16s/etc. with brand-new avionics and weapons systems...they'd rather avoid the association entirely. The same goes for smaller items as well.
Im Thai now we had old 1xxxxx M16A1
ReplyDeleteand royal thai army want to replace m16a1
with Tar-21
The service rifle in Thailand is M16A2,4 HK33(we can made it underlicence name Type11) And new Tar-21