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Caliber:5.56 x 45mm NATO

STAR, universal Sharpshooting Tavor Assault Rifle, the Sharpshooting from American English, can be understood as "accurate shooting."

STAR than the M16A2-E3 (72cm: 99cm) is much shorter and therefore more convenient to carry and use weapons, but also improved the hidden nature. In addition, because unlike the M16 series of STAR, as there is a mention to aim at baseline is not high, so do not need to use paste STAR cheek plate, so shooters can keep shooting low profile, reducing upper body exposed to enemy fire before the opportunity. In addition, TAR main drawback - can not be right-hand operation are not interchangeable, in the STAR marksman rifle that is irrelevant, because the sniper is usually only one side of the shoulder butt arrived.

Israeli troops are now equipped with the M16A2-E3 accurate striker system, as installed on the mention the sight, so butt cheek on the need to pad a paste board.

Wood left in its care, there is a hole, this hole is designed to install the MARS laser pointer switch button. Because STAR does not install the original MARS sights, it does not need laser pointer switch button, the button's location on the left of this hole.