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The G3 was the service rifle of the German Bundeswehr until it was replaced by the Heckler & Koch G36 in the 1990s, and was adopted into service with numerous other countries. The G3 has been exported to over 70 countries and manufactured under license in at least 15 countries.
8 Οκτ 2021 · Born from a complicated development history, H&K's G3 rifle went on to be one of the most prolific and well-loved battle rifles in the world.
6 Αυγ 2024 · The Heckler & Koch G3 underwent development in the 1950s to address the need for a more versatile and reliable battle rifle for West Germany’s Bundeswehr.
13 Δεκ 2018 · Three former Mauser engineers, Edmund Heckler, Theodor Koch and Alex Seidel, salvaged what they could and in 1948 opened a machine tool plant on the old Mauser site. A year later the company ...
30 Μαΐ 2024 · At its core, the HK G3 was a fine, if unspectacular, automatic rifle development exhibiting lines that would become a standard for the HK concern for decades to come. It yielded a very utilitarian appearance but was a fully-functional end-product worthy of the rigors of the modern battlefield.
12 Μαΐ 2022 · There’s no one better to take a deep dive into the history of the Heckler and Koch G3 than Ian McCollum. Here’s a small part of what he had to say about the battle rifle’s history: “ [The Heckler and Koch G3] was the adopted German standard combat rifle. These were adopted by Germany in 1959.
In the late 1960s H&K developed the HK33 (see photograph 6), essentially a scaled down G3, which was chambered in the new 5.56mm NATO round, this rifle became a popular export rifle but the German Army continued to favour the larger calibre G3.
