IWI’s CARMEL Assault Rifle/Carbine Shown at LAAD 2019 Exhibition

First you create the styling.

Then you design the mechanicals.

Then, you count the shekels.
 
Ebola said:
It looks like a fully ambidextrous, prettied up, Beretta ARX. I would pay lots of shekels for it.
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Prettied up kinda. Arx was already ambi...

This has a dust cover while the g36, scar, arx does not. That is a win in my books.
 
Ebola said:
It looks like a fully ambidextrous, prettied up, Beretta ARX. I would pay lots of shekels for it.
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It does, doesn't it? The Meprolight sight likely sits too high as it's meant for the Tavor.

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r34skyline said:
Prettied up kinda. Arx was already ambi...

This has a dust cover while the g36, scar, arx does not. That is a win in my books.
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There is no ingress for foreign matter at the G36's Ejection Port. The steel Bolt Carrier forms a seal with the polymer Receiver walls such that a Dust Cover would be redundant. I cannot speak to the SCAR as I have never taken the time to look when handling one. However I figure that if the SCAR needed a $.50 plastic Dust Cover to enhance reliability, the designers would have given it one. The same line of reasoning applies to the Bushmaster ACR's lack of a Dust Cover.
 
I’d take an AR any day of the week. More specifically, a SIG MCX.

That thing looks like someone was trying to solve a problem nobody had.
 
Bartok5 said:
There is no ingress for foreign matter at the G36's Ejection Port. The steel Bolt Carrier forms a seal with the polymer Receiver walls such that a Dust Cover would be redundant. I cannot speak to the SCAR as I have never taken the time to look when handling one. However I figure that if the SCAR needed a $.50 plastic Dust Cover to enhance reliability, the designers would have given it one. The same line of reasoning applies to the Bushmaster ACR's lack of a Dust Cover.
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I was pondering over that after I posted that since the g36 pattern guns have had excellent reliability reports even in dusty and sandy environments and the g36 derived xm8 performed particularly remarkably in the xm8 trials without one. I see the new 433 doesn't feature one either.

I wonder if this has the rectangular bcg such as the aforementioned hk guns, scar, acr etc or a more ar style carrier. I suspect it will be rectangular style unit. Easier to manufacture. Neat choice either way.
 
How about a few more photos?

Interesting to me that they've brought the X95s "hidden quad rail" setup into a conventional rifle. Sounds like this will be the first short stroke piston rifle they've ever done, and I think all rifles should have a bolt release that big.

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I do like that reduced rake grip out of the gate. Charging handle looks reciprocating... not sure im a fan of that but it isn't as big a deal to me as it is to some people.
 
Bfranklin said:
I’d take an AR any day of the week. More specifically, a SIG MCX.

That thing looks like someone was trying to solve a problem nobody had.
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My guess it that IWI received a lot of requests for a conventional layout modern rifle, and they designed one that's suitable for production on their Tavor tooling?
 
870P said:
My guess it that IWI received a lot of requests for a conventional layout modern rifle, and they designed one that's suitable for production on their Tavor tooling?
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Wouldn't it then have a long stroke gas piston system instead then?
 
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