In 1997 , suppressed P90s were used in combat by the Peruvian special forces group ( '' Grupo de Fuerzas Especiales '' ) in Operation Chavín de Huantar , the hostage rescue siege that ended the Japanese embassy hostage crisis . The operation was a success : all 14 MRTA revolutionaries were killed , and 71 hostages were rescued . The MRTA revolutionaries who had taken the hostages were equipped with body armor , but it was defeated by the Peruvian special forces ' P90s . In 2011 , P90s were used by Muammar Gaddafi 's military forces in the 2011 Libyan civil war , and some of these examples were captured and used in the war by Libyan rebel forces
Japanese embassy hostage crisis
Japanese embassy hostage crisis
FN P90