G36

       The G36 assault rifle was designed to replace the G3 battle rifle by Heckler and Koch, in early 1990, and was accepted into service in 1997. 

      The G36 uses the 5.56 x45 mm NATO bullet, it is gas operated and is feed from a 30 round box magazine, or a 100 round c-mag drum magazine. 
      The G36 is a selective fire assualt rifle firing from a closed rotary bolt.  It has a modular design and a conventional layout. 

     The fire and safety selector has controls on both sides of receiver, and its letters are described as S-safe (sicher), E- semi-auto fire (Einzelfeuer) and F- Continuous fire (Feuerstoss). Thw weapon safety disables the trigger when engaged. 

     The G36 feeds from 30 round curved round magazine, with staggered pattern loaded rounds, the magazines are made from high-strength transulent polymer, and can be clipped together using built-in coupling studs, into 2-3 magazine packs (jungle style) for rapid magazine changes, the G36 can also use beta c-drum magazine carrying 100 rounds, this magazine was intended for MG36 support weapon. 

       The rifle can be fitted with 40 mm under barrel AG36 grenade launcher which is breach loaded break-action weapon with side tilting barrel. 

      There are various variants of standard G36. 

  G36v: Previously known as the G36e export, this is the standard export variant of the G36 that has all the features of G36 standard, except the optical sight configurations. 

 
   MG36: Its the light machine gun version of G36, with heavier barrel and increased heat and cook off resistance, The MG36 are no longer available. 

  G36k: It is the carbine variant of the G36 rifle, with a shorter barrel, with rails on the hand guard to attach accessories, it does not support bayonets. The G36k is in service of German special forces, and it comes with two options eighter with a 3x scope or iron sights. 

  G36c: C stands for compact but is often mistaken as commando. This sub-carbine variant of G36 rifle has even shorter barrel then G36k with 4 open type flash hiders. The hand guard has 4 integrated picatanny rails and the optical scopes are replaced with deattachable iron sights. 

  There are other sporting variants of G36 that can be used in sporting compitions. How ever above are the most importent ones.