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m/963 The HK G3 was selected to equip the Portuguese Armed Forces as the new service rifle. Fábrica de Braço de Prata started in 1962 to manufacture under licence the G3, including the manufacture of its components and parts and its final assembly. Later, West Germany placed an order for 50,000 Portuguese-made G3 rifles for its own armed forces.
Peruvian police "Los Sinchis" operative with HK33 assault rifle and HK79 Grenade Launcher at SITDEF 2023. The Heckler & Koch HK33 is a 5.56mm assault rifle developed in the 1960s by West German armament manufacturer Heckler & Koch GmbH (H&K), primarily for export.
Service rifle that replaced the HK G3. The weapons were delivered to the Bundeswehr from 1996 to 2014, [13] with an expected service life of 20 years. In 2015, 176,544 G36s had been purchased and 166,619 were in use. As of 2019, the versions in use are the A0 to A4 and the shorter variant kA1 to kA4.
The Heckler & Koch HK41 is a semi-automatic version of the Heckler & Koch G3 battle rifle. [1] It was produced by Heckler & Koch for civilian sales and Bundeswehr reservist market for a rifle that could be privately owned in Germany but which would duplicate the handling of the G3 for reservists to practice with. [2]
The Heckler & Koch G41 is a German 5.56×45mm NATO assault rifle introduced in 1981 and produced in limited quantities by Heckler & Koch.It was designed to replace the 7.62×51mm NATO chambered Heckler & Koch G3 and the G3 based .223 Remington/5.56×45mm and later 5.56×45mm NATO chambered Heckler & Koch HK33 service rifles providing a more modern weapon compatible with then recently ...
The HK21 is a German 7.62 mm general-purpose machine gun, developed in 1961 by small arms manufacturer Heckler & Koch and based on the G3 battle rifle.The weapon is in use with the armed forces of several Asian, African and Latin American countries.
The HK43 was created in 1974 as a semi-automatic version of the HK33 (which itself was a scaled down version of the Heckler & Koch G3, but chambered for 5.56×45mm NATO). [1] According to H&K's numbering nomenclature, the "4" indicates that the weapon is a paramilitary rifle, and the "3" indicates that the caliber is 5.56 mm.
Heckler & Koch GmbH (HK or H&K; German pronunciation: [ˌhɛklɐ ʔʊnt ˈkɔx]) is a German firearms manufacturer that produces handguns, rifles, submachine guns, and grenade launchers. The company is located in Oberndorf am Neckar , Baden-Württemberg and also has subsidiaries in the United Kingdom, France, and the United States.