Tag: TAR-21

TAR 21 is an assault rifle designed by the Israel Military Industries (IMI) during the years 1991 to 2001 and is being manufactured by the Israel Weapons Industries (IWI) since 2001. TAR 21 stands for Tavor Assault Rifle – 21^st Century. However it is simply called as Tavor. Being in use since 2001 within armed forces worldwide it has fought in many wars like Operation Defensive Shield, Operation Summer Rains, Second Lebanon War, Operation Hot Winter, Gaza War, Operation Protective Edge, Colombian armed conflict, South Ossetia War and Cambodian-Thai stand-off.

 It fires 5.56×45mm NATO cartridges and it has a selective fire system which allows you to choose between semi-automatic and automatic firing modes.  Other variants of the machine can fire cartridges like 5.45×39mm and 5.56×30mm MINSAS. There are some variants of TAR 21 in production. Variants include – GTAR 21, CTAR 21, STAR 21, MTAR 21 Zttara and the Tavor Carbine TC 21. Among the variants MTAR 21 is the latest and most famous edition. MTAR 21, signifying Micro Tavor and has been popularly dubbed as Tavor 2, is a purpose specific and very compact version of TAR 21. The most useful issue with this version is that it can be turned into a 9 mm submachine gun from a 5.56 assault rifle with the help of a easy to use conversion kit.