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3 Machine guns. 4 Pistols. 5 Rifles. 6 Shotguns. 7 Sniper rifles. 8 Submachine guns/machine pistols. ... Heckler & Koch was also a contractor for the XM29 and XM8 ...
Heckler & Koch was founded in 1949 by former Mauser engineers Edmund Heckler, Theodor Koch, and Alex Seidel, who founded the company out of the shuttered Mauser factory in Oberndorf. [2] The company initially produced machine tool and metal parts until 1956 when, in response to a Bundeswehr contract for a new service rifle , HK developed the ...
The Heckler & Koch XM8 is a lightweight assault rifle system developed from the late 1990s to early 2000s. The rifle was designed by German small arms manufacturer Heckler & Koch (H&K), and shares design and engineering with their G36 rifle .
The Heckler & Koch MP5 (German: Maschinenpistole 5, lit. ' Submachine gun 5 ' ) is a submachine gun developed in the 1960s by German firearms manufacturer Heckler & Koch . It uses a similar modular design to the Heckler & Koch G3 , and has over 100 variants and clones, [ 14 ] including selective fire , semi-automatic , suppressed , compact ...
The Heckler & Koch MG4 (also known as the HK123) is a belt-fed 5.56 mm light machine gun designed and developed by German firearm manufacturer Heckler & Koch.It was developed in the late 1990s and first seen publicly in September 2001.
Colombia: [43] Originally in 1975, Heckler and Koch sold to Indumil the manufacturing license for the G3, the MP5 submachine gun, and the HK21 machine gun. [81] Replaced in service by IMI Galil. Denmark: G3A5, as the Gevær Model 1966 (Gv M/66). Another variant, designated Gevær Model 1975 (Gv M/75) was leased from the German government. [54]
The UMP was designed in the 1990s by Heckler & Koch (HK), as a cheaper, lighter alternative to the MP5, [5] which made heavy use of polymers. [6] The UMP first entered production in 2000. [ 2 ] It was designed primarily for use by American military and law enforcement units, [ 7 ] as the MP5 was not available in .45 ACP, a round which was ...
The Heckler & Koch MG5 (in the development phase also known as the HK121) is a belt-fed 7.62×51mm NATO general-purpose machine gun manufactured by German firearm manufacturer Heckler & Koch. The MG5 resembles the 5.56×45mm NATO Heckler & Koch MG4 light machine gun, which was adopted into German military service in 2015.