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The Heckler & Koch XM8 is a lightweight assault rifle system developed from the late 1990s to early 2000s. The rifle was designed by German small arms manufacturer Heckler & Koch (H&K), and shares design and engineering with their G36 rifle.
Infantry Automatic Rifle XM8: Shotguns. Image Model Variants HK FP6: HK 40621CF, HK 40621T (Entry) HK CAWS (Close Assault Weapon System) Sniper rifles.
XM8 preproduction model in 1994. Six prototypes were built under the designation XM8. The first of these was rolled out at the United Defense (created by a merger of FMC and BMY) facility in San Jose, California, in April 1994, [54] [nb 14] and arrived at Fort Knox, Kentucky, in April 1995. [85] The last of these was delivered in May. [86]
XM8 LMG: Used by PASKAL. Available in four variants: the XM8 compact carbine or PDW, XM8 carbine, automatic rifle, designated marksmen rifle and light machine gun. [65] Sniper rifles AR-50: Anti-materiel rifle.50 BMG United States: AR-50: Used by PASKAL. AW50: Anti-materiel rifle.50 BMG United Kingdom: AW50: Standard long range and anti ...
An early XM8 mockup after the break up; became part of OICW Increment 1. The Objective Individual Combat Weapon or OICW was the next-generation service rifle competition that was under development as part of the United States Army OICW program; the program was eventually discontinued without bringing the weapon out of the prototype phase.
The OICW was designed to fire 5.56 mm rounds and 25 mm grenades. The kinetic energy component was also developed separately as the XM8, though both the OICW and XM8 are now indefinitely suspended. Heckler & Koch developed an AR-15/M4 carbine variant, marketed as the HK416. [20]
The primary rifle used by PASKAL. Attached with Aimpoint CompM4S, Brügger & Thomet suppressor and Oerlikon Contraves LLM01 laser light module. [12] [13] [14] Heckler & Koch XM8: Tactical rifle / Carbine A former military projects of the United States based on the G36 was hand over to PASKAL to reduce the over-reliance on the M4A1 rifles.
M16 barrel is 7.5" longer than the XM8 barrel. Longer barrel = higher muzzle velocity. Spartan198 12:52, 22 October 2010 (UTC) Actually, Automatic Rifle variant has 508 mm barrel, this is the same length with the M16 barrel. But M16 has 948 m/s muzzle velocity, XM8 has 918 m/s.