Overview
- The first G95 rifles were handed over at the Grafenwöhr training area, with an initial batch of about 300 issued to Panzergrenadierbataillon 122 from Oberviechtach.
- Parliament’s budget committee approved lifting the procurement from roughly 120,000 rifles to about 250,000, with deliveries of at least 20,000 per year.
- Heckler & Koch is supplying the new standard weapon after prevailing in the legal dispute over the contract, with the selected design based on the HK416A8.
- The G95 is built on a more robust metal platform for stability under heat, offers improved precision during sustained fire, integrates modern optics and a standard suppressor, and increases the theoretical cyclic rate to about 850 rounds per minute.
- Germany’s procurement authority notes comparable variants are already fielded by allied forces, including in France, Lithuania and the Netherlands.