Comments by "Rick2010100" (@Rick2010100) on "The Truth Behind the Great G36 Controversy" video.

  1. As far as I was aware of the case, it happened like this: German troops in Afghanistan were under massive attack and fired many shots, sometimes magazine after magazine in a 9 hour firefight, at the Taliban. The platoon even ran out of ammunition and lost men. The soldiers said the rifle overheated and lost accuracy. The test department of the Bundeswehr in Meppen (WTD 91) was commissioned to check their claims and HK was also informed of possible problems. The WTD 91 was able to reproduce some of the claimed problems but said they only occur when the rifle is used in continuous fire mode, what it is not designed for. HK also conducted tests and discovered that the wrong type of ammunition was being used. HK said there are specifications for the ammunition and that the Bundeswehr ordered the wrong type. HK said the G36 requires TNT-based ammunition, which generates much less heat than black powder-based ammunition. The G36 can be used with standard gunpowder NATO ammunition, but for optimal performance the TNT based ammunition should be used. An accountant in the Bundeswehr procurement department tried to save a few bugs and ordered the cheapest NATO-compliant ammunition he could get. Than the totally incompetent German defense minister, who had spent hundreds of millions on outside business consultants and was trying to run the Bundeswehr cheaply like a civilian company, made a fuss about it. Her business consultants advised her to buy a other assault rifle, which should also be cheaper. Other forces in the army also hoped to get a new rifle with the caliber 7,62 × 51 mm NATO like the G3 before, but the successor of the the G36 (HK416 A8) has again 5,56 mm x 45.
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