Tavor Family Rifles used by Indian Military

Hello Guys I'M going to explain the all Tavor Family Rifles used by Indian Armed Forces.

1. TAR 21 (Standard Variant 457 mm

(18 in) barrel)

Tavor TAR-21 is an Israeli bullpup assault rifle chambered in 5.56x45mm caliber. Tar-21 is the standard Assault Rifle Variant of the Tavor Family of Rifles. Tavor Tar 21 is the common arm issued to the majority of special force troops of India.TAR-21 uses standard boxed magazine stores with a capacity of 20 or 30 rounds. This assault rifle can accept diverse range of sights and accessories. para Sf uses mainly Mars Red dot sight on Tar-21 while Garud and Marcos uses Mepro mor multi purpose reflex sight.

Para commando armed with Tar-21+ mars red dot sight

2. GTar-21

GTar-21 is the Grenadier Variant of Tar-21.

The GTAR-21 has a notched barrel to accept an under barrel grenade launcher (ubgl).it has a Magazine capacity of 30 rounds. Indian special forces mainly uses Turkish T40 40mm ubgl,Arcus 40mm Ubgl and m203 ubgl on GTar-21.

                              Garud commando armed with GTar-21+mepro mor sight and arsnel 40mm ubgl

3. CTar-21

CTAR-21 compact assault rifle version of Tar-21, fitted with a shorter barrel (15in) for Carbine purposes.It use the same Caliber (5.56X45mm). It's only used by  Garuds of Iaf.

                                       Garud commandos armed with CTar-21+ mepro mor multi purpose reflex sight

4. STar-21

STar-21  is a Marksman version of Tar-21, fitted with a folding bipod and optics.

Para Sf of Indian Army uses Mars Red dot sight on Star-21,Marcos uses Mepro mor and garud of Iaf uses Nimrod 6x40 Scope however troops can adjust or change optics according to there needs/mission.

                                                          Para Commando armed with STar-21+Mars red dot sight

5. Tavor X95 (5.56mm)

X95 Also called Micro Tavor. X-95 has a different body and the shortest barrel among all other Tavor versions. locally produced aVariant of x95 is called ZITTARA.

Security forces mostly uses Mepro MOR sight on X95. 3 variants of IWI X95 are used by Indian Forces i.e.

1) X95 with conventional trigger guard and higher rail mount.

2) X95 with TAR trigger guard & regular rail mounts.

3) X95 FLATTOP with full length rails.

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Author - Aditya Narayan Singh