Heckler & Koch G36
The G36 (company designation, Bundeswehr designation Gewehr G36) is an assault rifle designed in the early 1990s and manufactured in Germany by Heckler & Koch. It is the current service rifle of the German Armed Forces and the Spanish Armed Forces among others. A family of variants exists many of which have been adopted by police or military forces. The G36 replaced the G3 as the main infantry weapon of the Bundeswehr since 1997, a process that is now considered complete.
Heckler & Koch started designing the G36 in 1990, when the Bundeswehr asked them to develop a new weapon system to replace the 1950s vintage 7.62 × 51 mm G3 rifle. Two earlier Heckler and Koch designs, the revolutionary G11 and the more conventional G41, were both rejected in the 1980s.
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