For all the INSAS whiners - just goes to show that if the INSAS has been shown to work across most of our conditions, imported fancy stuff is likely to fail badly when attempting to replace it.
Here is H&K - the world's supposed best firearms maker. And their guns, TFTA, fancy looking, full of the best tech and what not. Fail when two mags are fired through them in demanding conditions.
We best stick with what works and finetune it further - the INSAS, rather than importing another boondoggle.
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/sas-uk-antiter ... er-1498431
A report commissioned by Germany's defence ministry, and seen by the Sunday Times, revealed that when the G36 assault rifle overheats – either due to overheating caused by hot or humid weather or firing too many rounds over a short period – it becomes very inaccurate.
When temperatures reach 30C, the G36's accuracy degradation is said to be exceed 50cm at a range of 200m. Reports in the German media claim that rounds fired at targets 500m away missed by as much as six metres.
The rifle is said to become unreliable after the firing of just two magazines (60 rounds).
German federal defence minister Ursula von der Leyen, who commissioned the tests, says the G36 has "serious faults" and the rifle has "no future" with the German military.
http://www.dw.com/en/heckler-koch-g36-t ... a-18402772
Weapons
Heckler & Koch G36: the rifle held in all the wrong places
Is it the plastic barrel holder? Or the tin cover? These questions are at the center of a hot debate surrounding "serious faults" with the Bundeswehr's favorite gun. DW leads you through the storm that is the HK G36.
It all started back in 2010, on Good Friday, following a Taliban ambush just outside German ISAF headquarters in Kunduz, northern Afghanistan. Thirty-two Bundeswehr paratroopers, cut off from the rest of their division, were plunged in a completely unexpected, nine-hour struggle of life and death .
During the firefight , the rifles being used by the paratroopers overheated, forcing them to retreat, and on the way back to Kunduz, an armored vehicle that had been dispatched rode over a landmine. The April 2, 2010 attack cost the lives of three German soldiers, and it initiated a debate that reached its climax this Wednesday, over five years later, concerning the Heckler & Koch G36 assault rifle.
Cherry-hot barrel
When the G36 overheats, either because of the temperature it finds itself in or because of constant, rapid fire, the precision and accuracy of the rifle suffer. The reason for this, according to the Defense Ministry, is that the rifle's barrel holder is made of a composite polymer that - even at a temperature as low as 23 degrees Celsius - softens and is no longer able to hold the barrel straight. Many of the components of the rifle are made of plastic, which account for its lighter weight when compared to its counterparts, such as the French FAMAS F1 or the American Colt AR-15.
A strictly classified series of tests conducted over the past months by three different applied science organizations, two Bundeswehr-related and one independent, was presented to von der Leyen at the end of March. The results, which were leaked to Reuters and select German media outlets, raised eyebrows well beyond the Defense Ministry.
All it takes is two magazines (60 rounds of ammunition) to heat up the barrel to an extent that "serious accuracy degradation" occurs, the researchers found. At this point, the accuracy degradation can be as severe as 50 centimeters at a range of 200 meters, and a full 6 meters at a range of 500 meters.
"The Heckler & Koch G36 has no future in the German army in its current state of construction," von der Leyen said in front of dozens of journalists following a special convention of the parliamentary committee on Wednesday.
