Can you identify this rifle
This recent photo was taken in Uganda and shows Ugandan Army officers and a "consultant" who calls himself "Captain Barak". Can you identify the rifles they are inspecting? The reader who emailed me the photo thought they may be H&K PSGs.
( I am not linking to the source of the photo due to its intentionally offensive content. )
UPDATE: The consensus is that they are pimped out IWI Galil or R4 rifles.
[ Many thanks to James for emailing us the photo. ]
It seems like to be AK rifle, or AK based rifle, may be Jewish or Chez rifle
No matter what it is it looks well naff.
Not a R4. The R4 is 5.56 Cal. That is a 308 Win Mag. IWI is very strong in selling Weapons in Africa
It looks like the Galil 308 Marksmen rifle from IWI
Steve, what is the source? I did a Tineye image search and only found a rather mild African news website with no discernible offensive content.
Yeah, I would be curious to know. Also, thanks for sharing Tineye.
It it overtly racist towards non-Whites. I was sent the link by a Ugandan who pointed out the racial overtones. I just don’t want to link to a site like that.
Looks like the SR 99 is a sniperised Israeli Galil ARM.
Flexible Mirage Deflector? What’s that?
Is there a rigid mirage deflector?
A flat strip of plastic to deflect heat rising from the barrel. The rising heat can distort the image seen through the scope. Long range competition shooters use them.
If you ever wanted to know what a real Africa merc looks like, that a look at the captain
Seems a Galil Sniper (barrel and receiver sure) then cheap add-ons to look Cool.
The rifle pictured on the right is a galil type rifle as far as caliber type of scope or country of orgin? Cant tell.
Galil indeed, probably a 7.62×51 version, whatever it was named.
Look at the distinctivily shaped receiver, there are tons of galils floating around in the sub-saharas, and they might have just put a little more effort into making this into a DMR rifle.
Could be a modified Saiga. But it’s definitely a member of the AK pattern family.
Looks like the photo has been kicking around for at least a year, as it was posted at this site in Nov. of 2010: http://formaliosnaujienos.blogspot.com/2010/11/religijos-laisve-pasaulyje.html
Whatever it is, it’s not brand-new.
Definitely not a Zastava M21. I believe the poster who said SR-99 is correct.
Looks like i wouldn’t want that piece of S%*# Galil
I, too, would like to be named CAPTAIN LIGHTNING.
(Yes, I know it’s a common Israeli name.)
This particular guy seems more a like Captain Thunder.
Barak (Hebrew: ברק) – Lightning
Ram (Hebrew: רם) – Thunder
The Israeli F-15I’s are called Ram
:) Its Galaz ( GALIL ZALAFIM) Its IWI Galil Sniper rifle with Fab-Defense or as you know them in the US the mako group upgrades
Btw israel sells and sold guns to Africa and south Africa since the days of Golda Mair israel even sold guns to Idi Amin who later supported international Islamic terrorists
That’s true, but its not like the United States hasn’t sold guns to any shady figures. We armed the Taliban as well as (recently disclosed thanks to wikileaks) Gadaffi and the Contras, just to name a few. History shows a pattern of world powers arming the enemies of their enemies and subsequently creating stronger and more ferocious threats. As to the make of the firearm, it is most likely a Galatz sniper rifle with a cluster rail instead of the standard synthetic fore-end. Check the IWI website.
if i recall, vektor out of south africa produces licensed galil rifles (R4?).
yeah the US sells to some pretty shady folks (i would laugh if it wasn’t so depressing.
M1s, F16s, Paladins, and humvees to saudi arabia and egypt
M1s, M16s, M240′s to Iraq
aforementioned equipment to Mexico
etc etc ad nauseum.
empire has its price.
The left one looks like a Galil SR99 which is used in Lesotho, Rwanda, etc.
its a tuned version of the QBZ-03, its chinese anyway. last time they had a huge order. ( new submachine guns CF-05 )
It’s definitely not based on a QBZ-03 – the underside of the receiver is all wrong, and the fire selector is over the grip rather than the receiver’s lower half.
That’s no Chicom rifle.
It looks to me like a heavily modified AK type rifle, like an M76 or a PSL or maybe a Saiga .308. Could also be a Galil.
I’m gonna have to agree with Wolf, I think these are Zastava rifles as well.
The forend looks similar to the M21, but the fire selector is different and the mag catch has the typical R4-style shroud. I’m still pretty certain they’re modified R4s.
The one on the left looks like the Galil SR99 semi-auto precision rifle.
http://images.bf-games.net/news/2005/11/4161_1.jpg
I’d say they are locally manufactured or updated versions of the SR99.
Think you hit it on the head with the SR99, but definitely “africa’d” up
was this released in an expansion or a mod? I don’t remember using that rifle.
This isn’t battlefield 3….go outside….
I would agree the receivers look “AK-ish” so they could be an R4/Galil derivative of some sort.
The one on the right has a left-side fire selector; while they could be Galil-based, given that they’re in Africa a safer bet might be that they’re heavily modified South African R4 rifles (well, anything based on the R4-R6 or LM4-LM6 family).
Aren’t R4s based on Galils anyway?
Yup. There are minor differences, but the main difference is that the R4 family is much more common here in Africa.
yes, to bolster komrad’s answer, the R4 is produced by Denel, which is a IMI-licensed Galil. Indicating by what I have seen, the R4 is a outstanding quality weapon. these weapons are copies of the outstanding Finnish Rk62 by Sako.
Maybe some kind of sniper Galil?
On the left one front hand-guard definitly Zastava M21.
The one on the left looks like a chinese type 88, but it has an ak reciever
Chinese type 88 is a bullpup…
i just noticed that, i was looking at it on my phone when i posted
Look like tricked out AK pattern rifles.
The one on the left looks like a chinese type 88