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Bundeswehr selects Haenel MK 556 assault rifle to replace G36
The Bundeswehr announced in a press release on 15 September that C G Haenel has been selected to supply its new assault rifle. Haenel is offering its MK 556 to replace the Bundeswehr’s G36 ...
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Revealed: What Made Heckler & Koch’s G36 Rifle Selectively Terrible
In 1996 Germany conducted a short trial between the Austrian Steyr AUG assault rifle and a new Heckler and Koch design. The Bundeswehr adopted the new design as the G36 assault rifle. Unlike ...
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U.S. Army Tropic Regions Test Center tests German Bundeswehr’s G95 rifles
Ernest Tretow of the Bundeswehr. “We tested the new night vision goggles inside the ... to conduct tests with their G22A2 sniper rifle, and MG4 and MG5 machines guns. “The test area was ...
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Testing standards for German army's new rifle lowered after previous shooter was dropped for having a floppy barrel
The G95A1 rifle failed to pass trials with military-standard ammunition so the Bundeswehr - the German ... strong army is due to be receiving new weapons next year after it was reported that ...
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The assault rifle held in all the wrong places
Thirty-two Bundeswehr paratroopers ... Nietfeld Will the German army jump to a different company for its new rifle? No, said Schulte, explaining there will most likely be a mix of different ...
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Meet the G3 Battle Rifle (And It’s a Legend for a Reason)
In the late 1950s, the Bundeswehr, West Germany’s armed forces, needed a new infantry rifle. Part practical endeavor and part rebranding effort, the adoption of the G3 battle rifle was a ...
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Bundeswehr to stand up new operational and support commands in October
The Bundeswehr's new nuclear, biological, and chemical protection regiment, ABC-Abwehrregiment 1, stood up in Strausberg, Brandenburg, eastern Germany, on 6 April 2022, will receive equipment ...
Merz will Bundeswehr als konventionell stärkste Armee Europas
Bundeskanzler Friedrich Merz hat sich in seiner Regierungserklärung auf die Fahnen geschrieben, die Bundeswehr angesichts ...
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Meister Mandeltree Kommunikation GmbH: Patent dispute over new Bundeswehr assault rifle could last years - C.G. Haenel is part of weapons conglomerate of the UAE - German ...
DJ Meister Mandeltree Kommunikation GmbH: Patent dispute over new Bundeswehr assault rifle could last years - C.G. Haenel is part of weapons conglomerate of the UAE - German government extended ...
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Rheinmetall tapped for laser light for Bundeswehr assault rifles
July 6 (UPI) --Rheinmetall has received a $5.9 million contract for laser light packages for the German Bundeswehr's Special Forces Assault Rifle ... U.S. signs new defense pact with Georgia ...
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Can Germany Be a Great Military Power Again?
Ingmar Björn Nolting for The New York Times Supported by ... to fire a Heckler & Koch G36, the standard rifle of the German military, or Bundeswehr. Dressed in fatigues, helmet and bulletproof ...