Hello guys
I don't know if you noticed, but right now, the german press developed the "G36 affair".
The german Bundeswehr seems to have accuracy-problems with their new Heckler & Koch G36-rifles, which has, as part of a series of equipment-problems, called the defense-minister into action, and, after a long phase of people discussing stuff they had no knowledge about, led to the german Bundeswehr replacing their expensive and just-bought G36 rifles.
Now I wondered.
Is the G36 really just such a bad rifle, which would go against what I heard of other H&K-products, or could it have one of the following reasons:
-It is widely known that german soldiers get little time on the range, so maybe accuracy would improve if they'd get to spend more time training with their new rifles.
-A rather compact rifle like the G36 (especially the "G36K", with the even shorter barrel) is just not made to put several magazines downrange in rapid fire.
Because after all, the problems all the fuzz is about only showed up after substained fire of at least about a hundred rounds went through the rifle, heating it up significantly.
What do you guys think?
Max
I don't know if you noticed, but right now, the german press developed the "G36 affair".
The german Bundeswehr seems to have accuracy-problems with their new Heckler & Koch G36-rifles, which has, as part of a series of equipment-problems, called the defense-minister into action, and, after a long phase of people discussing stuff they had no knowledge about, led to the german Bundeswehr replacing their expensive and just-bought G36 rifles.
Now I wondered.
Is the G36 really just such a bad rifle, which would go against what I heard of other H&K-products, or could it have one of the following reasons:
-It is widely known that german soldiers get little time on the range, so maybe accuracy would improve if they'd get to spend more time training with their new rifles.
-A rather compact rifle like the G36 (especially the "G36K", with the even shorter barrel) is just not made to put several magazines downrange in rapid fire.
Because after all, the problems all the fuzz is about only showed up after substained fire of at least about a hundred rounds went through the rifle, heating it up significantly.
What do you guys think?
Max