Hecker & Koch supplies new sniper rifle for the Bundeswehr
The German Army has chosen Heckler & Koch to supply G210 MR308A6 sniper rifles for its special forces.
Delivery of 500 rifles is scheduled for 2025, the German firearms maker said in a press release. This is not a large order in terms of numbers, but prestigious because it will equip the German armed forces with a national precision weapon.
Introduced at the EnforceTac exhibition earlier this year in February, the MR308A6 is a short-range semi-automatic sniper rifle, developed specifically for the tender.
The rifle, in limited numbers, was already among the equipment of the KSK and Feldjager special forces, but with this purchase program a greater diffusion in the German army is expected.
The G210 is essentially a DMR – Designated Marksman Rifle. The rifle is chambered in 7.62x51mm and has previously been featured at displays such as the Enforce Tac with features that include a two-stage match trigger, MLOK handguard, left charging handle, and safety selector passing at 46 degrees.
The rifle has a 16.75 inch, 42 centimeter barrel, and weighs 4.4 kg. The Bundeswehr has already chosen the new rifle's optics with a tender that ran concurrently with the original program, in 2020, selecting a Schmidt & Bender riflescope, believed to be a variant of the 5-20 x 50 PM II Ultra Short.
This is an optic already in use by many armies, police forces and precision shooting athletes around the world.
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