Reports in Turkmenistan’s media indicate that the country has adopted the Italian ARX-160 submachine gun manufactured by Italy’s Beretta as the service weapon of the country’s military and law enforcement authorities, and in the coming years plans to purchase large quantities of the ARX-160. At the end of 2019, contacts were also started between Turkmenistan’s government and Beretta to establish a joint venture to manufacture and repair the submachine guns in the country.
Turkmenistan; MoD selects Italian ARX-160 as standard sub-machine gun