In the late 1950s, the Bundeswehr, West Germany’s armed forces, needed a new infantry rifle. Part practical endeavor and part rebranding effort, the adoption of the G3 battle rifle was a symbolic ...

In stock configuration, the G3 is probably worse than the FAL and M14 for the shooter. After World War II, the members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization collectively decided to adopt a new ...

Under Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto’s national defense plan, the army is supposed to phase out 121,000 German G3 H&K rifles, which date back to the 1950s and which are still used by most ...

WARSTEIN-BELECKE, Germany—After many years of use, it was already time for WAGU Gummitechnik GmbH to replace an ancient internal mixer. The core of a new rubber compounding plant at WAGU's site in ...