Manufacturer catalog

Israel Military Industries

Israel Military Industries is the legacy Israeli state defense manufacturer founded in 1933 whose small-arms, rocket, ammunition, and armored-systems lines later continued under IMI Systems and then Elbit Systems Land.

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Israel Military Industries, often shortened to IMI, is the legacy name for the Israeli defense manufacturer founded in 1933. Open sources describe the company as the predecessor to IMI Systems, and Elbit Systems later acquired IMI in 2018 and folded the business into Elbit Systems Land.

For this catalog, the builder catalog page preserves that older industrial identity because many weapon records still point at IMI-era production: rifles, rockets, tank ammunition, and armored-vehicle survivability systems. The weapon pages carry the conflict-use evidence; this profile gives readers the industrial and corporate context behind the legacy builder name.

small armsartillery rocketstank ammunitionarmored vehicle survivabilityprecision munitions

Notable Systems

Galil assault rifle, Selective-fire assault rifle family, Infantry Weapons

Galil assault rifle

Selective-fire assault rifle family

One of the best-known IMI small-arms families and a clear catalog anchor for the company's legacy firearms line.

Sources: Galil (& close derivatives) Weapons Identification Sheet, IMI Systems history
LAR-160, 160 mm artillery rocket / cluster-munition rocket, Munitions

LAR-160 artillery rocket

160 mm artillery rocket / cluster-munition rocket

Representative of IMI's artillery-rocket and cluster-munition production line.

Sources: LAR - Light Artillery Rocket System, IMI Systems history
Namer, Heavy armored personnel carrier / infantry fighting vehicle, Armored Vehicles

Namer heavy armored personnel carrier

Heavy armored personnel carrier / infantry fighting vehicle

Shows the builder's role in Israeli armored-vehicle and survivability work that extended beyond ammunition and small arms.

Sources: Namer | Weaponsystems.net, Elbit Systems 2018 20-F

M329 APAM 120 mm tank projectile

Illustrates the tank-ammunition side of the IMI portfolio that still matters to the catalog's legacy land-systems coverage.

Sources: Tank Ammunition, Elbit Systems 2018 20-F

Manufacturer History

  1. Israel Military Industries is founded

    The pre-state Jewish defense establishment founded Israel Military Industries in 1933, creating the industrial base that later became IMI Systems.

    Sources: IMI Systems history

  2. Israel Military Industries becomes IMI Systems

    NTI and other open references describe the company as changing its name to IMI Systems in 2016.

    Sources: IMI Systems history

  3. Elbit Systems completes the acquisition

    Elbit Systems said it completed the acquisition of IMI Systems on 25 November 2018 and later integrated the business into Elbit Systems Land.

    Sources: Elbit Systems completes the acquisition of IMI Systems, Segments | Elbit Systems

Successors
IMI SystemsElbit Systems Land
Website links
Elbit Systems LandSegments | Elbit SystemsElbit Systems completes the acquisition of IMI SystemsIMI Systems history

Public English-language references use Israel Military Industries, IMI, and IMI Systems across different eras. This profile preserves the legacy company name and keeps the Elbit acquisition as the endpoint of the standalone IMI business. The builder has a layered corporate history, so current product-family references are used only to frame the industrial lineage rather than to imply new conflict-use claims.

Manufacturer Sources

  • IMI Systems historyPublisher: Nuclear Threat Initiative | Note: Supports the 1933 founding of Israel Military Industries, the legacy company name, and the reported 2016 rename to IMI Systems. | Accessed: 2026-06-21
  • Elbit Systems completes the acquisition of IMI SystemsPublisher: Elbit Systems | Note: Supports the 25 November 2018 acquisition of IMI Systems by Elbit Systems and the corporate transition away from the standalone IMI business. | Accessed: 2026-06-21
  • Segments | Elbit SystemsPublisher: Elbit Systems | Note: Supports the current Elbit Systems Land integration of the IMI business and the land-systems product context that now carries the legacy portfolio. | Accessed: 2026-06-21
  • Elbit Systems 2018 20-FPublisher: Elbit Systems | Note: Supports IMI Systems being based in Ramat HaSharon and its design and manufacture of precision munitions and armored-vehicle survivability and protection systems. | Accessed: 2026-06-21
  • Galil (& close derivatives) Weapons Identification SheetPublisher: Small Arms Survey | Note: Supports the Galil family as an IMI legacy small-arms line and provides product-family background for the builder profile. | Accessed: 2026-06-21
  • LAR - Light Artillery Rocket SystemPublisher: GlobalSecurity.org | Note: Supports the LAR-160 family as an IMI rocket-artillery line and gives product-family background for the builder profile. | Accessed: 2026-06-21
  • Tank AmmunitionPublisher: Elbit Systems | Note: Supports the tank-ammunition product family that descends from the IMI land-munitions portfolio. | Accessed: 2026-06-21
  • Namer | Weaponsystems.netPublisher: Weaponsystems.net | Note: Supports the Namer heavy APC as part of the broader IMI-derived land-systems portfolio that the builder profile preserves. | Accessed: 2026-06-21
  • Israel Military Industries old logo at Ayalon Institute.jpgPublisher: Wikimedia Commons | Note: Supports provenance and CC BY-SA 4.0 reuse context for the historic Israel Military Industries logo image used on this legacy builder profile. | Accessed: 2026-06-21

Produced weapons

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Armored Vehicles

Troop carriers, infantry fighting vehicles, and protected mobility.

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Artillery

Tube artillery, rocket artillery, and long-range ground fires.

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M824 60 mm illumination mortar projectile, 60 mm illumination mortar projectile, Artillery2023 Israel-Hamas WarM824 60 mm illumination mortar projectile60 mm illumination mortar projectileBuilt in: IsraelThe M824 is a 60 mm illumination mortar projectile in the Israeli mortar-ammunition lineage now carried in Elbit Systems Land's portfolio. Elbit says the round carries a parachute-retarded flare, burns for 35 seconds, reaches 2,200 m, uses a time fuze, and fires from smoothbore 60 mm mortar barrels. A 2010 Forecast International report listed IMI's M824 as an extended-range illumination round, and OSMP documented a tentative M824 in Gaza in July 2024 as a delivered and functioned munition.

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Infantry Weapons

Portable weapons used by soldiers and small units.

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Galil assault rifle, Selective-fire assault rifle family, Infantry Weapons2009 Boko Haram Insurgency, 2016 Colombian FARC Dissident Conflict +1 moreGalil assault rifleSelective-fire assault rifle familyBuilt in: IsraelThe Galil is an Israeli Kalashnikov-derived assault rifle family originally produced by Israel Military Industries and later modernized by Israel Weapon Industries as the Galil ACE line. Recent conflict reporting places Galil or Galil ACE rifles in irregular small-arms stocks from the Lake Chad Basin to FARC dissident operations in Colombia and trafficked gang arsenals in Haiti, where they appear as portable infantry weapons rather than heavy support systems.

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Munitions

Standalone missiles, bombs, rockets, torpedoes, and guided or unguided explosive payloads.

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M095 DPICM cluster submunition, Dual-purpose improved conventional munition submunition, Munitions2016 Nagorno-Karabakh Clashes, 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh ConflictM095 DPICM cluster submunitionDual-purpose improved conventional munition submunitionBuilt in: IsraelThe M095 is an Israeli-made dual-purpose improved conventional munition submunition carried inside LAR-160 cluster rockets. Cluster Munition Monitor reporting ties M095 DPICM remnants to the April 2016 Nagorno-Karabakh clashes, and Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International documented M095 remnants, impact patterns, pink stabilization ribbons, and unexploded submunitions after Azerbaijani rocket attacks on Stepanakert and Hadrut in 2020.