Things aren’t going so well for H&K when it comes to sales of their G36 rifle. More modern than the M16 design currently used by the US and other countries, the G36 has had a series of embarrassing failures that led to the German government looking for a replacement much sooner than expected. H&K wants to stay on that gravy train and their response is the HK433.
From the press materials:
The new HK433 is a Modular and compact assault rifle chambered for 5.56mm X45 which combines the strengths and outstanding features of the G36 and the HK416 families of assault rifles – both proven worldwide. It doesn’t matter at all weather you are right or left-handed or have trained on a G36 / HK416 weapon system of AR-15 platform: The HK433 is the solution for every scenario imaginable. Maximum functional reliability with intuitive handling combines with maximum modularity, accuracy and weapon safety made in Germany.
This Scar-esk type rifle has quite a few modern features – full ambi controls including a charging handle that out and can be put on the left side in about five seconds, 45 degree safety throw switch, folding and full adjustable stock, and three position gas adjuster.
Oh look keymod…????
Civilians need not apply.
Because, I love my suppressed PS90. I believe it’s better with risk mitigation, less recoil and darn fun to shoot.
It will be like a CZ805 Bren, that you can’t afford, and cant buy.
I’ve never had a problem with just wrapping the string end around my hand.
If it sells, Ok.
COBRA LALALALALALALALALALALALALA!
The guys got lucky.. How in the hell did our ancestors kill them with a rock tied on the end of a stick? They must have been some real badasses……………….. When I worked as a hunting guide, my boss introduced me to our hunters as “PETA Joe”, do to my love of critters, I don’t trust bears, they’re hard to make friends with. One minute they may seem docile, then in an instant, their all pissed off and mad about it
I will not put anything on my face that says GATORZ Magum Z. What is this, Xtreme Xtended, Xun and Gun Protexion. Its like some frat boy branding.
Lemme guess, US civilian market getting shafted out of this one too?
Might as well not have brought it to shot.
Any more word on their US facility?
This will scare the pants off CNN viewers
“Add a little race gun performance to your EDC? Why not.”
Because if you wanted a bigger, longer, heavier gun with a compensator, you would have bought one.
The Shield is popular because it’s small, light, concealable, and it goes bang.
Cuanto cuesto? And capacity?
The discussion takes on a totally different perspective if we first establish whether a standard issue “battle rifle” for every pair of boots is even necessary. We don’t line troops up and have them march toward each other. Is the battle rifle even a viable concept for modern warfare?
Do the vast majority of the boots on the ground even need a “battle rifle”? Sure they need something more powerful than a handgun for the occasions they’re engaged by small arms fire, but are rounds from a “battle rifle” intended to be the primary item the Army/Marines use to kill bad guys in modern combat? Seems to me it’s not. Seems more like it’s a defensive weapon in many (most?) scenarios and that artillery, mortars, airstrikes/drone strikes, etc… are intended to be the way of eliminating the enemy with precise overwhelming force.
Sure, but M4 / 5.56×45 maybe isn’t the greatest battle rifle combination, but I’d argue it’s not intending or trying to be a battle riffle.
Looks like the author over looked the improvements made to the 5.56×45 62 gr M855 round in the form of the new non-lead 5.56×45 62 gr M855A1 round used by the US Army since 2010. The M855A1 bullet has yielded better accuracy (almost match like), better bullet yaw, and significantly better barrier penetration at farther distances with M4’s and M16A2’s. The Army has also replaced the 7.62×51 M80 round with the newer 7.62×51 M80A1 using the same bullet improvements, with plans to do this with rounds up to the .50 cal. No one is complaining about the M855A1 round like the M855 round. The Marines have adopted the M855A1 round also.
You only need a plus 600 meter round and rifle in the desert, which is were we have been for the last 16 years. Deserts are the geographic areas where most talk for a new .30 cal rifle and round discussions have been focused on to support our troops in open and long distance areas. Put us in a mid-temperate European environment or Southwest Asian Jungle environment someone will say we need something else.
If I’m going into bear country I’m taking my AR10 with some 180 grain bonded bullets.
the only spray that bear is going to get is coming at 2500 FPS with maximum weight retention.
If they only made a bloated,ugly and fat ORANGE one it might sell……
As for the “not for the USA” pains, it may as well be blamed on the Obama-era Communist Bureau of Asses, Twits and F***s; if they can’t ban weapons, they will do the next best thing and tax, tariff and/or tech-spech them out of availability… which happens to be California’s approach right now. And it is difficult to blame a company for not wanting to go through the huge bureaucracy if the customer market will be limited in the beginning. But if it takes off in the Gov sectors, that may enable the costs to come down enough to make it feasible.