Details of the new IWI Masada pistol – A Striker Based Line of Pistols

[Zarvan]

Busy days for IWI, new Tavor 7 and now a new line of striker based pistols called Masada.

On Thursday TFB published a series of photos that IWI had dropped to tease us and we now have more details to confirm our guesswork.

night sight.

The Masada magazines are 17+1, just as we guessed.

The IWI Masada pistol will be available in four colors: Sniper Gray, OD Green, Black, and Flat Dark Earth, great company for your Tavor rifle.

IWI Masada Features:

• Striker-fired pistol
• Easy racked slide with improved front and rear cocking serrations
• External extractor integrated with a tactile and visual loaded chamber indicator
• Cold hammer-forged polygonal rifled barrel
• Integral MIL-STD 1913 picttiny rail
• 17+1 rds. black magazines with visible round count
• Fixed 3-dot Tritium illuminated night sights (optional)
• 100% interchangeability, with an interchangeable trigger mechanism housing that reduces maintenance and life cycle costs

Optimized ergonomic design:

• Clean and crisp trigger reset with a built in trigger safety
• Fast, easy and safe disassembly without the need to pull the trigger
• components
• Combat-style sights, optional: fixed 3-dot tritium sights
• Low barrel axis for reduced perceived recoil
• 3 Interchangeable wrap around back-straps – S, M, L
• Large trigger guard for use with or without gloves
• Enhanced grip texture which enables faster follow-up shots in all conditions
• Fully ambidextrous operating controls: Slide stop lever, Magazine release, Manual Safety (by special order)
  

The technical data:

Caliber: 9X19mm

Barrel length (mm): 104 (4.1″)

Total length (mm): 189

Weight (approx. Kg) (w/o magazine): .650

Yes, there’s a video as well: IWI Masada Striker-Fired Pistol

The pistol will be available to our customers from Q1/18. We do not have a price.

Now the IWI Masada has a page of its own, check it out here: http://iwi.net/masada/

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