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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 ...
A total of 988 rifles is intended to replace the HK MP5SD. [278] It is chambered in 7.62×35mm (.300 AAC Blackout). Heckler & Koch 416 A8 "G95A1 and G95KA1" Germany: Assault rifle: In December 2022, it was selected to become the future standard service rifle. The order is for 118,718 rifles (€209 million), [279] the deliveries will start in 2024.
9×19mm Parabellum. Luftwaffe. 10,450 Astra 600s had been delivered to Germany until German occupation of France ceased. [ 4] The remainder of the German order, consisting of 28,000 pistols, was intercepted by Allied forces in September 1944. [ 1] [ 3] Astra 900. Astra-Unceta y Cia SA. 7.63×25mm Mauser.
The Heckler & Koch G3 ( German: Gewehr 3) is a select-fire battle rifle chambered in 7.62×51mm NATO developed in the 1950s by the German firearms manufacturer Heckler & Koch, in collaboration with the Spanish state-owned firearms manufacturer CETME. [ 2] The G3 was the service rifle of the German Bundeswehr until it was replaced by the Heckler ...
This page contains a list of equipment used the German military of World War II.Germany used a number of type designations for their weapons. In some cases, the type designation and series number (i.e. FlaK 30) are sufficient to identify a system, but occasionally multiple systems of the same type are developed at the same time and share a partial designation.
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]
Heckler & Koch MG5. The Heckler & Koch MG5 (in the development phase also known as the HK121) is a belt-fed 7.62×51mm NATO general-purpose machine gun manufactured by German firearm manufacturer Heckler & Koch . The MG5 resembles the 5.56×45mm NATO Heckler & Koch MG4 light machine gun, which was adopted into German military service in 2015.
Weapons of the Third Reich: An Encyclopedic Survey of All Small Arms, Artillery and Special Weapons of the German Land Forces 1939-1945. New York: Doubleday. ISBN 0-385-15090-3. Categories: Lists of military lists. Lists of weapons. German military-related lists.