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== Users == [[File:Uzi Users.png|thumb|A map with users of the Uzi in blue]] {{div col|colwidth=30em}} === Africa === * {{flag|Algeria}}<ref name= 'bicc'>{{cite web|title=MP UZI|url=https://salw-guide.bicc.de/en/weapon/view/20|website=SALW Guide: Global distribution and visual identification|author1=Bonn International Center for Conversion|author-link1=Bonn International Center for Conversion|author2=Bundeswehr Verification Center|access-date=31 August 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180831035754/https://salw-guide.bicc.de/en/weapon/view/20|archive-date=31 August 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> *{{flag|Angola}}<ref name="jones2009">{{cite book |title=Jane's Infantry Weapons 2009–2010 |editor-last1= Jones |editor-first1=Richard D. |editor-last2= Ness |editor-first2=Leland S. |date=27 January 2009 |publisher=Jane's Information Group |location=Coulsdon, Surry | edition=35th |isbn=978-0-7106-2869-5 |page=117 |oclc=268790196 }}</ref> *{{flag|Botswana}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://sites.google.com/site/worldinventory/wiw_af_botswana|title=Google Sites|website=sites.google.com|access-date=2017-09-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161124203850/https://sites.google.com/site/worldinventory/wiw_af_botswana|archive-date=2016-11-24|url-status=live}}</ref> * {{flag|Burundi}}: Burundian rebels<ref name ='SAS 2007 6'>{{cite book|url=http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/publications/by-type/yearbook/small-arms-survey-2007.html|chapter-url=http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/fileadmin/docs/A-Yearbook/2007/en/full/Small-Arms-Survey-2007-Chapter-06-EN.pdf|chapter=Armed Violence in Burundi: Conflict and Post-Conflict Bujumbura|title=The Small Arms Survey 2007: Guns and the City|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|year=2007|author=Small Arms Survey|author-link=Small Arms Survey|page=204|isbn=978-0-521-88039-8|access-date=2018-08-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180827001033/http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/publications/by-type/yearbook/small-arms-survey-2007.html|archive-date=2018-08-27|url-status=live}}</ref> * {{flag|Cameroon}}<ref>{{cite news|title=Contre-offensive - Cameroun et Tchad contre Boko Haram|newspaper=[[Paris Match]]|date=18 February 2015|first=Patrick|last=Forestier|url=https://www.parismatch.com/Actu/International/Cameroun-et-Tchad-contre-Boko-Haram-710550|language=fr|access-date=21 October 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180829035212/https://www.parismatch.com/Actu/International/Cameroun-et-Tchad-contre-Boko-Haram-710550|archive-date=29 August 2018|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=A Cameroonian soldier, armed with an Uzi submachine gun, stands guard outside the Palais des Congres|first=Patrick|last=de Noirmont|agency=Reuters|via=stock.adobe.com|date=9 July 1996|url=https://stock.adobe.com/ee/editorial/a-cameroonian-soldier-armed-with-an-uzi-submachine-gun-stands-guard-outside-the-palais-des-congres/146467930|access-date=21 October 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181022073406/https://stock.adobe.com/ee/editorial/a-cameroonian-soldier-armed-with-an-uzi-submachine-gun-stands-guard-outside-the-palais-des-congres/146467930|archive-date=22 October 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> *{{flag|Central African Republic}}<ref name="jones2009"/> *{{flag|Chad}}<ref name="jones2009"/><ref name="diez2000">{{cite book |title=Hand Guns |last=Diez |first=Octavio |year=2000 |publisher=Lema Publications |location=Barcelona |isbn=84-8463-013-7 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e8vcKLkEfcMC |language=ar |oclc=44059526 |access-date=2016-03-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140916211618/http://books.google.com/books?id=e8vcKLkEfcMC |archive-date=2014-09-16 |url-status=live }}</ref> *{{flag|Democratic Republic of Congo}}<ref name="jones2009"/> *{{flag|Eritrea}}<ref name="jones2009"/> *{{flag|Eswatini}}<ref name="jones2009"/> *{{flag|Ethiopia}}<ref name="jones2009"/> *{{flag|Gabon}}<ref name="jones2009"/> *{{flag|Kenya}}<ref name="jones2009"/><ref name="diez2000"/> * {{flag|Lesotho}}<ref name="Beyond Blue Helmets">{{cite book|title=Beyond Blue Helmets: Promoting Weapons and Ammunition Management in Non-UN Peace Operations|first=Eric G. |last=Berman|publisher=[[Small Arms Survey]]/MPOME |date=March 2019|url=http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/fileadmin/docs/U-Reports/SAS-MPOME-Report-WAM-Non-UN-Peace-Ops.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190603103636/http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/fileadmin/docs/U-Reports/SAS-MPOME-Report-WAM-Non-UN-Peace-Ops.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 3, 2019|page=43}}</ref> *{{flag|Liberia}}<ref name="jones2009"/> *{{flag|Niger}}<ref name="jones2009"/> *{{flag|Nigeria}}<ref name="jones2009"/> *{{flag|Rwanda}}<ref name="jones2009"/> * {{flag|Sierra Leone}}: Croatian made Ero and Mini-Ero in use.<ref>{{cite web|title=World Infantry Weapons: Sierra Leone|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161124203938/https://sites.google.com/site/worldinventory/wiw_af_sierraleone|archive-date=24 November 2016|url=https://sites.google.com/site/worldinventory/wiw_af_sierraleone|date=2013}}{{self-published source|date=January 2019}}</ref> *{{flag|Somalia}}<ref name="jones2009"/> *{{flag|South Africa}}:<ref name="diez2000"/> Manufactured under license.<ref name= 'bicc'/> *{{flag|Sudan}}<ref name="jones2009"/> *{{flag|Togo}}<ref name="jones2009"/> *{{flag|Uganda}}<ref name="jones2009"/> *{{flag|Zimbabwe}}<ref name="jones2009"/> **{{flag|Rhodesia}}: Former user, manufactured under license.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.military-today.com/firearms/uzi.htm |title=IMI Uzi - Submachine gun |quote=It was license-produced in ... Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). |publisher=ARG |access-date=2011-04-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120510155823if_/http://www.military-today.com/firearms/uzi.htm |archive-date=2012-05-10 |url-status=usurped }}</ref> === Asia === *{{flag|Azerbaijan}}<ref name= 'bicc'/> *{{KHM}}<ref name= 'bicc'/> *{{flag|India}}: Uzi was used by the [[Special Protection Group]] until 2008, when it was replaced with the [[FN P90]]. Micro Uzi variants are still used by [[Para SF]] of the [[Indian Army]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://indiatoday.intoday.in/site/Story/13607/INDIASCOPE/If+looks+could+kill.html |title=If Looks Could Kill |author=Unnithan, Sandeep |date=August 22, 2008 |publisher=India Today (Online) |access-date=2009-04-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100212220755/http://indiatoday.intoday.in/site/Story/13607/INDIASCOPE/If+looks+could+kill.html |archive-date=February 12, 2010 |url-status=live }}</ref> *{{flag|Indonesia}}<ref name="jones2009"/> *{{IRQ}}<ref name= 'bicc'/> *{{flag|Iran}}<ref name="miller2001"/> *{{flag|Israel}}: Uzi and Mini Uzi variants.<ref name="jones2009"/> Mini Uzi variant was used by the [[YAMAM]] elite unit and [[Shin Bet]].<ref name="meyr1999">{{cite web|url=http://www.janes.com/security/law_enforcement/news/ipi/ipi0312.shtml |archive-url=https://archive.today/20080301103639/http://www.janes.com/security/law_enforcement/news/ipi/ipi0312.shtml |url-status=dead |archive-date=1 March 2008 |title=Special Weapons for Counter-terrorist Units |author=Meyr, Eitan |date=6 January 1999 |publisher=Jane's — Law Enforcement |access-date=2009-09-26 }}</ref> *{{flag|Myanmar}}: Locally produced under model number BA93 (wooden stock) and BA94 with, used mainly by Myanmar Police Force and Special Operation Task Force.<ref name="jones2009"/> *{{flag|Philippines}}<ref name="jones2009"/> *{{flag|South Korea}}: Issued to special forces in the 1970s. Later replaced by the [[Daewoo Precision Industries K1|Daewoo K1]]<ref>{{Cite journal |volume=9 |issue=5 |title=The Evolution of K1/K2 Families in the ROK Military |journal=Small Arms Defense Journal |url=https://sadefensejournal.com/the-evolution-of-k1k2-families-in-the-rok-military/ |date=2023-02-24 |access-date=2022-10-11 |language=en-US}}</ref> *{{flag|Sri Lanka}}<ref name="jones2009"/> *{{flag|Syria}}: limited usage <ref name="MF"/><ref name= 'bicc'/> *{{flag|Taiwan}}<ref name="jones2009"/> *{{flag|Thailand}}<ref name="miller2001"/><ref name="jones2009"/> *{{flag|Vietnam}}<ref name= 'bicc'/> - People's Army news (Báo Quân đội nhân dân) informed that Technical Department of Special Operation Command (Sapper) had a project to design and manufacture calibration device for MARS attached on Micro Uzi.<ref>[http://www.qdnd.vn/qdndsite/vi-VN/61/43/4/38/38/178422/Default.aspx Improvement, Modernization and Development for Special Operation Weapons (Cải tiến, hiện đại hóa, phát triển vũ khí đặc công, in Vietnamese)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120308194855/http://www.qdnd.vn/qdndsite/vi-VN/61/43/4/38/38/178422/Default.aspx |date=2012-03-08 }}</ref> === Europe === *{{flag|Belgium}}: Made under license by [[FN Herstal]].<ref name="miller2001"/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mil.be/armycomp/subject/index.asp?LAN=nl&FILE=&ID=1680&MENU=2190&PAGE=1 |title=UZI |work=www.mil.be |publisher=[[Belgian Armed Forces|Belgische Defensie]] |language=nl |access-date=7 January 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120307124522/http://www.mil.be/armycomp/subject/index.asp?LAN=nl&FILE=&ID=1680&MENU=2190&PAGE=1 |archive-date=7 March 2012 |url-status=live }}</ref> *{{flag|Croatia}}: Produces unlicensed copies of the Uzi and Micro Uzi called the '''ERO''' and '''Mini ERO''' respectively.<ref name="jones2009"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.aalan.hr/Product-Catalogue/tabid/3622/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/11522/categoryId/274/Submachine-Gun-Type-Ero-cal-9x19mm.aspx |title=Submachine Gun Type "Ero" cal. 9x19mm > Alan Agency > Product Catalogue |publisher=Aalan.hr |access-date=2009-10-22 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091001180548/http://www.aalan.hr/Product-Catalogue/tabid/3622/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/11522/categoryId/274/Submachine-Gun-Type-Ero-cal-9x19mm.aspx |archive-date=2009-10-01 }}</ref> *{{flag|Estonia}}: Uses the Mini Uzi variant.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mil.ee/?menu=tehnika1&sisu=uzi |title=Eesti Kaitsevägi — Tehnika — Püstolkuulipilduja Mini UZI |publisher=Mil.ee |access-date=2009-06-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090607051421/http://www.mil.ee/?menu=tehnika1&sisu=uzi |archive-date=2009-06-07 |url-status=live }}</ref> *{{flag|France}}<ref name= 'bicc'/><ref name="MF"/> *{{flag|Germany}}: Made under license as MP2.<ref name="miller2001"/> *{{GRC}}<ref name= 'bicc'/> *{{flag|Ireland}}:<ref name="MF"/> Used by the [[Garda Regional Support Unit]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.independent.ie/national-news/commuterbelt-garda-squad-to-carry-new-armourpiercing-submachine-gun-bertie-to-launch-journalists-memoir-widow-of-fianna-fails-neil-blaney-dies-declan-lynch-for-electric-picnic-talk-retirement-group-hosts-alan-stanford-funeral-of-fashion-editors-mother-1873265.html |title=Commuter-belt garda squad to carry new armour-piercing submachine gun |access-date=2010-01-31 |work=[[Irish Independent]] |date=30 August 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091005072900/http://www.independent.ie/national-news/commuterbelt-garda-squad-to-carry-new-armourpiercing-submachine-gun-bertie-to-launch-journalists-memoir-widow-of-fianna-fails-neil-blaney-dies-declan-lynch-for-electric-picnic-talk-retirement-group-hosts-alan-stanford-funeral-of-fashion-editors-mother-1873265.html |archive-date=5 October 2009 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.garda.ie/Documents/User/col_yr_bk_english.pdf |title=Garda College Yearbook listing weapons training on page 66 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140124082839/http://www.garda.ie/Documents/User/col_yr_bk_english.pdf |archive-date=2014-01-24 }}</ref> Formerly available in each Garda District HQ to suitably trained plainclothes officers. *{{flag|Italy}}: The Mini Uzi variant results by official schedules to be in the inventories of the [[Polizia di Stato|Italian National Police]].<ref>[http://www.siulproma.com/pdf/circolari/2009/Circ._Armi_in_uso_alla_Polizia_di_Stato.pdf Italian Ministry of Interior - Decree n° 559/A/1/ORG/DIP.GP/14 of March 6, 2009, concerning weapons and equipments in use with the Italian National Police - in Italian] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716075641/http://www.siulproma.com/pdf/circolari/2009/Circ._Armi_in_uso_alla_Polizia_di_Stato.pdf |date=July 16, 2011 }} Retrieved on August 25, 2010.</ref> A local version called the '''[[Socimi Type 821|Type 821-SMG]]''' was manufactured from 1984 to 1989 by the ''SOCIMI - Società Costruzioni Industriali Milano, S.p.A.'' in [[Milan, Italy|Milan]]. *{{flag|Lithuania}}: [[Lithuanian Armed Forces]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://kariuomene.kam.lt/lt/ginkluote_ir_karine_technika/pistoletai-kulkosvaidziai/pistoletas_-_kulkosvaidis_uzi.html |title=Pistoletas - kulkosvaidis UZI |date=11 December 2009 |publisher=LR Krašto apsaugos ministerija |language=lt |access-date=7 January 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101130215013/http://kariuomene.kam.lt/lt/ginkluote_ir_karine_technika/pistoletai-kulkosvaidziai/pistoletas_-_kulkosvaidis_uzi.html |archive-date=30 November 2010 |url-status=live }}</ref> *{{flag|Luxembourg}}<ref name="jones2009"/> *{{flag|Malta}}<ref name="jones2009"/> *{{flag|Netherlands}}<ref name="miller2001"/><ref>{{cite book |editor1-first=Charles C. |editor1-last=Unwin |editor2-first=Mike R. |editor2-last=Vanessa U. |title=20th Century Military Uniforms |year=2002 |edition=2nd |publisher=Grange Books |location=Kent |isbn=1-84013-476-3|page=179}}</ref> *{{POL}}<ref name= 'bicc'/> *{{flag|Portugal}}: [[Portuguese Army]].<ref name="jones2009"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.exercito.pt/meios/Documents/media_MeiosOp/Armamento/UZI%209mm.pdf |title=PISTOLA METRALHADORA "UZI" 9 MM M/61 |access-date=2011-02-21 |url-status=dead |publisher=Portuguese Army |language=pt |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110809173350/http://www.exercito.pt/meios/Documents/media_MeiosOp/Armamento/UZI%209mm.pdf |archive-date=2011-08-09 }}</ref> *{{flag|Romania}}: Mini Uzi variant is used by the [[Romanian Military Police|Military Police]].<ref name="Romania">{{cite web| title = Politia Militara| work = Ministerul Apararii Nationale| url = http://www.politia.forter.ro/index.php?pagina=6| access-date = 2010-02-15| url-status=dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160418184446/http://www.politia.forter.ro/index.php?pagina=6| archive-date = 2016-04-18}}</ref> *{{flag|Serbia}}: Used by the [[Military Police Battalion Cobra]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://specijalne-jedinice.com/Srbija/Bataljon-vojne-policije-za-specijalne-namene-Kobre.html|title=Specijalne-jedinice.com - Bataljon vojne policije specijalne namene "Kobre"|website=specijalne-jedinice.com|access-date=2017-01-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202075410/http://specijalne-jedinice.com/Srbija/Bataljon-vojne-policije-za-specijalne-namene-Kobre.html|archive-date=2017-02-02|url-status=live}}</ref> *{{flag|Turkey}}<ref name= 'bicc'/> *{{flag|Ukraine}}<ref name="Ukr War" /> === North and central America === *{{flag|Bermuda}}: Bermuda Regiment.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bermudaregiment.bm/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=171:uzi-sub-machine-gun&catid=48:weaponscat&Itemid=223|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140226095657/http://www.bermudaregiment.bm/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=171:uzi-sub-machine-gun&catid=48:weaponscat&Itemid=223 |archive-date=2014-02-26 |title= Uzi sub-machine gun}}</ref> *{{CRI}}<ref name= 'bicc'/> *{{flag|Cuba}}<ref name="Cuba">{{cite book |title=The Secret Fidel Castro: Deconstructing the Symbol |last= Gonzalez |first=Servando |year=2001 |publisher=InteliNet/InteliBooks |location=Oakland, California |isbn=0-9711391-1-3 |page=93 |quote=FN manufactured Uzis were provided in 1960 in an arms shipment aboard [[La Coubre explosion|'La Coubre']]. An example can be seen in the Military Museum at [[Valencia]], with Cuban markings.}}</ref> *{{flag|Dominican Republic}}<ref name="jones2009"/> *{{flag|El Salvador}}<ref name="jones2009"/> *{{flag|Guatemala}}<ref name="jones2009"/><ref name="diez2000"/> *{{flag|Haiti}}: Uzi and Mini Uzi variants used by [[Haitian National Police]].<ref name="jones2009"/> *{{flag|Honduras}}: Uzi and Mini Uzi variants.<ref name="jones2009"/> *{{flag|Nicaragua}}<ref name="jones2009"/> *{{flag|Panama}}<ref name="jones2009"/> *{{flag|United States}}:<ref name="TT"/><ref name="MF"/> From 1968 to 1973, the CIA bought 3,000 Uzis for use in Southeast Asia by [[Civilian Irregular Defense Group program|Direct Action operatives]] and Special Forces troops. From the 1960s to 1990s, The US Secret Service's VIP details used a chopped-down model that could be concealed in a briefcase. === Oceania === *{{flag|Australia}}<ref name="MF"/><ref>{{cite book |title=Blue Army: Paramilitary Policing in Australia |last= McCulloch |first=Jude |year=2001 |publisher=Melbourne University Press |location=Carlton South, Vic. |isbn=0-522-84960-1 |page=[https://archive.org/details/bluearmyparamili0000mccu/page/66 66] |url=https://archive.org/details/bluearmyparamili0000mccu |url-access=registration |quote=uzi. |access-date=7 January 2011 |oclc=48129650}}</ref> *{{flag|Fiji}}<ref name=Capie>{{cite book|last=Capie|first=David|title=Under the Gun: The Small Arms Challenge in the Pacific|date=2004|pages=70–71|publisher=Victoria University Press|location=Wellington|isbn=978-0864734532 }}</ref> *{{flag|Tonga}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://pacificdocs.wordpress.com/latest-features/photography/tongan-navy-march/|title=Tongan Navy March|work=Pacificdocs|date=3 November 2009|access-date=5 December 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141222205831/http://pacificdocs.wordpress.com/latest-features/photography/tongan-navy-march/|archive-date=22 December 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> === South America === *{{flag|Argentina}}<ref name= 'bicc'/> *{{flag|Bolivia}}<ref name="jones2009"/> *{{flag|Brazil}}:<ref name="MF">{{cite book |last1= Cadiou |first1=Yves L. |last2=Richard |first2=Alphonse | title = Modern Firearms |publisher = Routledge & Kegan Paul | year = 1977 |location=London |pages = 86–93| isbn = 978-0-7100-8424-8 }}</ref> Mini Uzi variant.<ref name="jones2009"/> *{{flag|Chile}}<ref name="jones2009"/> Carabineros de Chile. *{{flag|Colombia}}<ref name="jones2009"/> *{{flag|Ecuador}}<ref name="jones2009"/><ref name="diez2000"/> *{{flag|Paraguay}}<ref name="jones2009"/><ref name="diez2000"/> *{{flag|Peru}}: Uzi, Mini Uzi, and Micro Uzi variants.<ref name="jones2009"/> *{{flag|Suriname}}<ref name="jones2009"/> *{{flag|Uruguay}}<ref name="jones2009"/> *{{flag|Venezuela}}<ref name="miller2001"/><ref name="jones2009"/> {{div col end}} === Non-state users === * [[File:Provisional Irish Republican Army Badge.svg|20px]] [[Provisional Irish Republican Army]]<ref name="PIRA">{{cite web |title=Iris, No. 7 |url=https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/view/382/ |publisher=Sinn Féin |access-date=22 August 2023 |date=1983}}</ref><ref name="PIRA (2)">{{cite web |title=Where did the Adidas Tracksuit Wearing IRA Gunmen Get Their Gear? |url=https://reaperfeed.com/where-did-the-adidas-tracksuit-wearing-ira-gunmen-get-their-gear/ |access-date=22 August 2023 |date=14 September 2020}}</ref>
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