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The Heckler & Koch G36 (Gewehr 36) is an assault rifle designed in the early 1990s by German weapons manufacturer Heckler & Koch. It is chambered in 5.56×45mm NATO, and replaced the heavier G3 battle rifle chambered in 7.62×51mm. [1] The G36 was accepted into service with the Bundeswehr in 1997. [2]
Rear of 7.5 cm Gebirgsgeschütz 36 at the War Museum in Narvik, Norway. The 7.5 cm GebG 36 was designed by Rheinmetall to meet an Army requirement for a 7.5 cm howitzer to serve in the mountain divisions (Gebirgs Divisionen) and replace the World War I-era mountain guns still in service such as the Austro-Hungarian 7.5 cm Gebirgskanone 15.
The 7.62 cm FK 36(r) and Pak 36(r) (7.62 cm Feldkanone /36 (russisch) and Panzerabwehrkanone (Anti-tank gun) 36(russisch)) were German anti-tank guns used by the Wehrmacht in World War II. The first guns were conversions of the Soviet 76 mm divisional gun M1936 (F-22) .
The AG36 is a single-shot 40 mm grenade launcher that operates on the high-low system and was designed primarily for installation on the G36 assault rifle, designed by the German weapons manufacturing company Heckler & Koch of Oberndorf am Neckar.
Glock 36, an Austrian pistol; Grumman G-36, a F4F Wildcat aircraft variant; Kami language (Tanzania) Matsuchi Station, in Ehime Prefecture, Japan
The name of the gun applies to a series of related guns, the first one officially called the 8.8 cm Flak 18, the improved 8.8 cm Flak 36, and later the 8.8 cm Flak 37. [N 2] Flak is a contraction of German Flugabwehrkanone (also referred to as Fliegerabwehrkanone) [11] [N 3] meaning "aircraft-defense cannon", the original purpose of the weapon.
The 8.8 cm KwK 36 was derived from the 8.8 cm Flak 36 anti-aircraft gun by adapting/modifying it to the limited space available in tank turrets. Parts of the KwK 36 were built to practically the same design as the 75-millimetre (3.0 in) and 50-millimetre (2.0 in) guns already used in German tanks.
The MAS Modèle 36 (also known as the Fusil à répétition 7 mm 5 M. 36 [1]) is a military bolt-action rifle. First adopted in 1936 by France and intended to replace the Berthier and Lebel series of service rifles, it saw service long past the World War II period. It was manufactured from late 1937 onward by Manufacture d'Armes de Saint ...