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The MP5 has since become a mainstay in militaries, special forces, and police tactical units across the world, but has gradually been replaced since the late 1990s by rifles, carbines, and personal defense weapons due to changes in armament trends, including growing access to body armor that can stop handgun cartridges.
This is a list of all of the weapon products made by Heckler & Koch, a German weapons defence manufacturer with subsidiaries all over the world. It includes fully developed, experimental and military products, as well as those produced under license.
Standard-issue squad automatic weapon; will be replaced by the K15 K16: SNT Motiv South Korea: General-purpose machine gun: 7.62×51mm NATO: Planned to replace the M60 machine gun: M60: Daewoo Precision Industries United States South Korea: General-purpose machine gun: 7.62×51mm NATO: M60, M60D and M60E2 Produced under license; being replaced ...
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.
Historically, RUC officers were issued with the Ruger Speed-Six revolver from 1979 onwards and had access to the Sterling submachine gun and the Ruger AC-556 select-fire rifle until these were replaced by the Heckler & Koch MP5 submachine gun and the Heckler & Koch G3 and Heckler & Koch HK33 [91] rifles between 1992 and 1995, with the PSNI ...
H&K USP: Semi-automatic pistol: 9×19mm Parabellum Germany: Only Japanese Special Forces Group. [26] Submachine guns H&K MP5: Submachine gun: 9×19mm Parabellum West Germany: Only Japanese Special Forces Group. [27] H&K MP7: Personal defense weapon: HK 4.6×30mm Germany: Only Japanese Special Forces Group. [28] Assault rifles and battle rifles ...
The weapon has been revised since its introduction and the latest production variants are the MP7A1 and MP7A2. [7] [8] The proliferation of cheap yet effective soft body armor has begun to make guns that fire pistol ammunition (such as Heckler & Koch's earlier MP5 submachine gun and USP pistol) ineffective.
Heckler & Koch MP5: Heckler & Koch: 9×19mm Parabellum 10mm Auto.40 S&W West Germany: 1966-present SMG Heckler & Koch MP7: Heckler & Koch: 4.6×30mm Germany: 1999-present SMG PDW Heckler & Koch MP2000: Heckler & Koch: 9×19mm Parabellum Germany: 1988-1990 SMG Heckler & Koch UMP [2] Heckler & Koch: 9×19mm Parabellum.45 ACP.40 S&W Germany: 2000 ...