Key point: France saw that the HK416 was a good weapon and so adopted it. In 2017, the French military should begin taking delivery of a new individual weapon to replace the aging FAMAS rifle. The ...

The HK416 appeared in 2004 and has seen combat with U.S. and German special operations forces in Afghanistan. In 2010, the U.S. Marine Corps also adopted the HK416 as the M-27. In 2017, the French ...

KSM combat swimmers underwater with the H&K G36 assault rifle (Photo Bundeswehr) German special operations units are about to get their hands on the latest iteration of Heckler & Koch’s HK416 carbine, ...

Deliveries of the new HK416 rifle (pictured) to German SF are expected to start this month as the Bundeswehr ponders the replacement of its main assault rifle. Heckler & Koch (H&K) was selected in ...

The Heckler & Koch HK416 is an assault rifle/carbine designed and manufactured by Heckler & Koch. It is based on the AR-15 platform, and was originally conceived as an improvement to the Colt M4 ...

A member of the Dutch Korps Commandotroepen with an H&K HK416 D10RS (Photo Wikimedia Commons) For decades, German arms giant Heckler & Koch has served as the gold standard for military and civilian ...

PARIS — The Direction Générale de l'Armement received May 3 a 400-strong first batch of Heckler & Koch HK416 F, an assault rifle to replace the Famas weapon for the French services under the future ...

One of them became the most popular assault rifle in the world, while the other was chosen for the job of eliminating the world’s most notorious terrorist at the time - Osama bin Laden. The Russian ...

Heckler & Koch (HK) has developed the HK416 Enhanced Carbine to provide a high degree of performance as required by special operations units. To improve reliability, service life and operator safety, ...