Nagaland Police Adds Tavor X95 Assault Rifles to its Arsenal

Kohima, February 21, 2020:

Nagaland Police have added Tavor X95 Assault Rifles, an Israeli bullpup designed and produced by Israel Weapon Industries (IWI) as part of the Tavor rifle family, to its arsenal.

Its first consignment reached the state on Thursday. Nagaland’s leading web portal, We The Nagas took to Twitter to share the first look of the Tavor X95 Assault Rifles. “Nagaland police is all set to add a new weapon to its armoury as the first phase consignment of Israel weapon industries(IWI) Tavor X95 assault rifles arrived in the state.”

It may be mentioned here that the IWI Tavor X95, which is also called Micro-Tavor, MTAR, and MTAR-21, is an assault rifle, produced by the IWI as part of the Tavor rifle family, along with the TAR-21 and the Tavor 7.

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The Tavor X95, with the use of a relatively simple conversion kit, can be converted from a 5.56 mm assault rifle to a 9 mm submachine gun.

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