IWI Galil ACE in the wild
Updated: January 9th, 2013
A reader emailed in photos of the IWI Galil ACE being carried by soldiers at Cavalry Day at the Colombian Army’s Cavalry Military School. These short barreled Galil ACE are incredible sexy!
Along with Colombia, the ACE has also been adopted by Peru and Guatemala.
[ Many thanks to Thaddeus for emailing me the link. ]
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The nation is spelled "Colombia"
jdun1911,
Armies (the US Army in particular) have been looking for modular weapons systems. The carbine is just a shorter rifle. The sniper rifle is a longer rifle. The PDW is a short barreled rifle. A common receiver and components, but the weapon can be equipped to serve various roles. See the XM8 as a recent submission.
Again, I see the problem being that common ammunition as being a weak link. All ammo has design criteria that we seem to not have taken into account. When weapons such as PDWs are included in the package, it would seem that the armies would need to purchase specifically spec'ed ammo for each weapon. I can shoot military grade ammo out of an M4 and an M16A2 can get really different performance. Imagine if my barrel was half the length of an M4?
We have a weapon with a common receiver. It has several major components that will allow us to configure the weapon for various roles. But if we trying to use a common ammunition in all the weapons.... aren't we accepting poor performance out most of the weapon packages?