Italian navy special forces with Galils

[easyand]

A very rare photo of Italian navy special forces dureing a real mission in Albania, note the Galils, the photo is taken from an SH3D helicopter

[JVeld]

How old is that photo ? Do they still use Galils ?

[thatguy96]

Not Galils, a clone made in Italy. Bernardelli VBs, and from the looks of that picture VB SRs. The Italian guns had a STANAG magwell adapter as standard, and were rumored to have been able to mount the M203 before the development of such mounts for the AR70/90 (if one even exists now). The completion of that rumor was that was why the Bernardelli guns stayed in service as long as they did.

http://kalashnikov.guns.ru/models/ka269.html

[easyand]

How old is that photo ?

nine years, 1997
Galils (or VBs like thatguy said) are still in their armory but I don't think they're used anymore except of some special occasions/missions