Which is the most popular rifle in the West today? There is no doubt that it is the HK416 rifle of Heckler Koch. Customers include more than 30 countries including the United States, France, Norway, Poland, Sweden, Portugal, Italy, and Australia.
However, as the country of origin, Germany has purchased a batch of G95 rifles (HK417A7) in 2017, and has no follow-up orders. It seems that there is a lack of interest in this explosive weapon.
Germany obviously has its own ideas. After all, it costs a lot to change the gun. And the G36 rifle is very young and has too much potential to tap. The performance is not necessarily worse than the HK416.
The picture shows the actual combat exercise held by the 31st Regiment of the German Paratroopers this year. The soldiers are holding the G36 rifles. The accessories are quite luxurious. The tactical lights, retractable buttstock, dark transparent magazines (dark colors can avoid reflections), machine A new sighting system is also installed above the box.
This new type of sight system consists of three parts, including a lens holder, a holographic sight and a magnification mirror (supporting three times magnification). The lens holder is connected to the tactical rail above the receiver, the holographic sight is installed in the middle of the lens holder, and the magnification lens is installed on the right side of the lens holder.
In this way, the soldier has two sights that can be used. If the combat distance is close, you can directly look at the hologram in the middle, and if the combat distance is longer, you can see with a slight head tilt The magnification mirror on the right meets different combat needs.
In addition to the luxurious accessories, the G36 used by the paratroopers is relatively short, which should be the newly developed short-tube assault type, which is shorter in length and more flexible in combat.
The Germans who are about to break the door can see that the two sights are not in a straight line to ensure that the imaging of the two mirrors does not interfere with each other.
paratroopers have always been synonymous with elite German troops. Even they still use G36 rifles, which proves that Germany has no idea of changing to HK416. Perhaps the G36 will have the same long life span as its predecessor, the G3, and it won’t be a problem for another twenty years.
