I spent 2 years in the South African special forces, where the rifle was called a R4, also available as a R5 and R6 version. The South African military only used a 5.56 mm version, which explains why I thought it wasn't available in other calibres. The snipers rifle I was issued with was a modified Belgian FN 7.62mm. The South African version of the Galil was very different, as in the picture above that I pasted. It came standard with a folding bipod, which doubled as a wire cutter, had a folding aluminium stock, had some of the internal parts in aluminium, where they where apparently steel in the other country's versions. It was an amazing rifle, could fire underwater, was virtually indestructible, and very light. I did a weapons course and qualified with 22 infantry weapons, but that was twenty years ago, so my knowledge is very rusty.

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