APS-95

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The APS-95 was a prototype assault rifle in Croatia, chambered in 5.56 NATO. It is a copy of the Israeli Galil. The rifle features a collapsible stock and can be equipped with a thirty-millimetre grenade launcher.

It was never used in Croatian army, and was never adopted or sold to any army in the world, simply because it never made it to serial production. It was not a licensed copy, but it was based on Galil rifle. Guns of similar appearance used by Army of Serbia and Montenegro is the South African copy of the Galil rifle called the R4. Around 2,000 of these R4 rifles were seized by the Yugoslav National Army in Zagreb Pleso Airport, when the Croatian businessman Antun Kikaš tried to smuggle them to Croatian police in 1991.