End of the road for the German Armed Forces assault rifle HK G36
Sören Sünkler
The German Armed Forces puts the G36 assault rifle out to pasture after 20 years of faithful service
End of the line: the era in which the Heckler & Koch G36 assault rifle in 5.56x45 mm NATO served the German Armed Forces seems finally to have reached its end
The first HK 50 prototype, a predecessor of the Heckler & Koch G36
Heckler & Koch HK50 alias G36 from the early 90s
A sectional model of the HK G36
Current design: a G36 KA4 with EOTech illuminated dot scope, 3x magnifier mount, light-laser module and the 40x36mm attached grenade launcher AG 36
The interim solution is now to immediately procure 600 G27P assault rifles in 7.62x51 mm NATO, based on the HK 417 design
The HK 416 A5 in 5.56x45 mm would certainly be one of the many alternatives to the G36
Sünkler Sören
Nobody could ever have guessed that for the first time since the Second World War, German soldiers would be called upon to use the HK G 36 fighting abroad when the weapon was introduced in 1997
Bullpup designs by other manufacturers: the Croatian VHS-2 by HS Products
The ST Kinetics BMCR from Singapore will not be included in the selection procedure for the new German Armed Forces rifle
Among the group of particularly compact bullpup assault rifles, the Steyr AUG A3 in 5.56x45 is most likely to be a front-runner in re-equipping the German Armed Forces
The Beretta ARX-160 is one of the modern representatives of the conventional 5.56 assault rifles that feature a magazine positioned in front of the trigger
Beretta ARX-160 in the calibre 5.56x45 mm
The FN SCAR family by the Belgian armaments company FN Herstal consists of modern assault rifles in a modular design
The German Special Weapons and Tactics units have already used the FN SCAR on occasion. Here we see the author in action with an FN SCAR H PR in 7.62x51
The Remington Defense Adaptive Combat Rifle (ACR) with its modular design
CZ 805 BREN A1 in 5.56x45 mm NATO from the Czech Republic
We have also put the innovative multi-calibre SIG MCX assault rifle through its paces
Also an alternative to the HK G36: SIG Sauer MCX
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