Heckler & Koch specifically designed its HK416 to meet the demands of America’s elite armed forces. Development began sometime in the 1990s, and in 2004, it replaced the M4s carried by Delta Force.

The HK416 appeared in 2004 and has seen combat with U.S. and German special operations forces in Afghanistan. In 2010, the U.S. Marine Corps also adopted the HK416 as the M-27. In 2017, the French ...

Heckler & Koch's 5.56mm HK416 is beginning to show up in more and more places, including foreign militaries and the Marine Corps, where a variation of the weapon known as the M27 infantry ...

The Direction Générale de l’Armement — the French defense procurement agency — announced in September 2016 that it would adopt the German Heckler & Koch HK416. (This first appeared in 2016.) ...

Heckler & Koch USA is now offering a high-quality understudy to its AR-pattern center-fire rifles with a new version of the HK416 .22 LR chambered in .22 Long Rifle.

In the early 2000s, operators in the U.S. military’s special operations community started using the Heckler & Koch HK416 as one of their primary battle rifles.

Heckler & Koch has received an order from the Norwegian Defence Materiel Agency to supply HK416 assault rifle sets for the Norwegian armed forces, the company announced on 8 January. The order will ...

A member of the Dutch Korps Commandotroepen with an H&K HK416 D10RS (Photo Wikimedia Commons) For decades, German arms giant Heckler & Koch has served as the gold standard for military and ...

The Russian Kalashnikov AK and the German Heckler & Koch HK416 are considered to be among the world’s most widespread assault rifles, used by special operations divisions everywhere. We dissect ...

Heckler & Koch (HK) has developed the HK416 Enhanced Carbine to provide a high degree of performance as required by special operations units. To improve reliability, service life and operator ...

Firearms maker Heckler & Koch announced today that it will manufacture two new rifle designs in a newly opened US factory in 2009. The new rifles, the HK MR556 and HK MR762, are inspired and ...