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German Army’s New Assault Rifle ‘Inaccurate’ for Battle: Report

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"The German Army’s new assault rifle has been found “inaccurate” for battle, making it unreliable to support combat operations, a classified report obtained by Der Spiegel claims.

The service’s G95A1 assault rifle, developed by Heckler & Koch, reportedly failed to pass recent trials using standard ammunition..."

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German Army’s New Assault Rifle ‘Inaccurate’ for Battle: Report

The German Army’s new assault rifle has been found “inaccurate” for battle, making it unreliable to support combat operations.
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For some reason, the "with standard ammunition" Makes me think of the ammunition standard powder change with the M16 ammunition and how badly that effected performance.

these types of things generally have a cause and effect, curious what the case may be here. I tend to believe thst something occurred between design, prototypes, testing and full production.

could be anything from ammunition to a component supplier switch.
 
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The problem stems from a plastic channel that supports the weapon’s barrel. During firing, the report said the channel quickly heats up and becomes soft, leaving it out of alignment.

Easy fix, replace the problem part with a metal or with one with higher-temp tolerant plastic.
 
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Talyn said:
The problem stems from a plastic channel that supports the weapon’s barrel. During firing, the report said the channel quickly heats up and becomes soft, leaving it out of alignment.

Easy fix, replace the problem part with a metal or higher-temp tolerant plastic.
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It's not always that simple to just replace one material with another. The plastic channel maybe required for barrel harmonics or to allow a certain amount of movement to properly function. Sometimes things are just poorly designed.

I'm not saying that is what is going on here but the plastic channel was chosen for a reason.
 
The debate over the extent of redesign required aside, what strikes me is - how did it get this far before the problem was identified? This is a commissioned weapon, not something they are still testing or experimenting with. The bottom of the article is pretty damning, in terms of how testing standards were lowered in order to get the rifle fielded more quickly. And, of course, this was supposed to be a replacement for, and an improvement on, the G36.
 
Hammer67 said:
The debate over the extent of redesign required aside, what strikes me is - how did it get this far before the problem was identified? This is a commissioned weapon, not something they are still testing or experimenting with. The bottom of the article is pretty damning, in terms of how testing standards were lowered in order to get the rifle fielded more quickly. And, of course, this was supposed to be a replacement for, and an improvement on, the G36.
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The G36 also had accuracy issues when the barrel heated up.
 
KillerFord1977 said:
german defense and HK could have just equipped all the soldiers with the HK416 rather than a new rifle
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Most likely the platform is too expensive to equip the general infantry with it and it's probably a national pride thing where they don't want to have the military being represented by an American designed rifle even though it was improved with the HK piston design.
 
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