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Assault rifles & battle rifles Heckler & Koch G36 (multiple variants Germany: Assault rifle: 5.56×45mm NATO [13] Service rifle that replaced the HK G3. The weapons were delivered to the Bundeswehr from 1996 to 2014, [14] 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 ...
Agreement for 500 rifles; Grenade launchers Steyr Arms GL40 A1 Austria: Under-barrel grenade launcher. 40×46 mm LV. 40×46mm LV: Agreement between the Army in Steyr in April 2024 for the supply of new grenade launcher to be affixed to the new HK416 (G95) assault rifles and other rifles in service (G27P, G27K): [11] Agreement for up to 4,776 ...
Lists of military equipment used by Germany, both current and former equipment of the German Empire, Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany, West Germany/East Germany, and modern-day Germany. By type [ edit ]
The Haenel MK 556 [2] (German: Maschinenkarabiner) [3] is a gas-operated selective-fire 5.56×45mm NATO assault rifle designed by German company C.G. Haenel.The MK556 was finalised in September 2020, and it is a fully automatic version of an earlier Haenel design, the CR 223, which was already in limited use by law enforcement agencies since 2017. [4]
The evolution of German military rifles is a history of common and diverse paths followed by the separate German states, until the mid-19th century when Prussia emerged as the dominant state within Germany and the nation was unified. This article discusses rifled shoulder arms developed in or for the military of the states that later became ...
The following list of modern armament manufacturers presents major companies producing modern weapons and munitions for military, paramilitary, government agency and civilian use. The companies are listed by their full name followed by the short form, or common acronym, if any, in parentheses. The country the company is based in, if the ...
However, the newly formed West German Army now showed interest and soon purchased a number of CETME rifles (7.62×51mm NATO chambering) for further testing. The CETME, known as the Automatisches Gewehr G3 according to German nomenclature, competed successfully against the Swiss SIG SG 510 (G2) and the American AR-10 (G4) to replace the ...
The Heckler & Koch HK417 is a battle rifle designed and manufactured by Heckler & Koch. [1]Being the larger caliber version of the Heckler & Koch HK416, and chambered for the 7.62×51mm NATO rifle cartridge, it is intended for use where the penetrative power, stopping power, and range of the 5.56×45mm NATO HK416 would otherwise be insufficient.