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Number of employees923 (2018)WebsiteHeckler & Koch GmbH ( HK) ( German pronunciation: ) is a German manufacturing that manufactures,. The company is located in in the of, and also has subsidiaries in the United Kingdom, France and the United States.The Heckler & Koch Group comprises Heckler & Koch GmbH, Heckler & Koch Defense, NSAF Ltd., and Heckler & Koch France SAS.
The company's motto is ' Keine Kompromisse!' (No Compromises!). HK provides firearms for many military and paramilitary units, including the, the US, Canada's, the German and and many other counter-terrorist and hostage rescue teams.Their more notable products include the, the, the, the, the, the series of, and the high-precision. All HK firearms are named by a prefix and the official designation, with suffixes used for variants.HK has a history of innovation in firearms, such as the use of in weapon designs and the use of an integral rail for flashlights on handguns. HK also developed modern, noted for its high accuracy, increased muzzle velocity and barrel life.
Not all its technologically ambitious designs have become commercially successful products (for instance, the advanced but now abandoned military rifle, which fired high-velocity ammunition). In its extensive product range, HK has used the following operating systems for small arms:, and (via Short-stroke piston). Contents.History With the fall of Germany at the end of World War II, came under French control, and the entire factory was dismantled by French occupying forces.
All factory records were destroyed on orders of the local French Army commander. In 1948, three former Mauser engineers, and, saved what they could from the factory and used what they salvaged to start a machine tool plant in the vacant factory that became known as the Engineering Office Heckler & Co.On December 28, 1949, the Engineering Office Heckler & Co.
Changed its name and was registered officially as Heckler & Koch GmbH. Initially the new company manufactured machine tools, bicycle and parts, gauges and other precision parts.In 1956, Heckler & Koch responded to the government's tender for a new infantry rifle for the (German Federal Army) with the proposal of the, which was based on the Spanish rifle. The German government awarded Heckler & Koch the tender and by 1959 declared the G3 the standard rifle of the Bundeswehr. In 1961, Heckler & Koch developed the 7.62×51mm, based on the G3 battle rifle.In 1966, Heckler & Koch introduced the HK54 machine pistol, which eventually launched in 1969 as the. Two years later, the company introduced the 5.56×45mm assault rifle, a smaller version of the G3 battle rifle chambered in 5.56mm NATO.
Diversification In 1974, Heckler & Koch diversified into two more areas, HK Defense and Law Enforcement Technology and HK Hunting and Sports Firearms. Since then HK has designed and manufactured more than 100 different types of firearms and devices for the world's military and law enforcement organizations as well as sports shooters and hunters.In 1990, Heckler & Koch completed two decades of development of their revolutionary caseless weapon system and produced prototypes of the. The company also produced prototypes of the intended for the Bundeswehr. Due to the international political climate at the time (East and West Germany uniting and defense budget cuts) the company was unable to secure funded contracts from the German government to support production of either weapon system and became financially vulnerable. The next year, Heckler & Koch was sold to the 's division.During 1994 and 1995, the German government awarded Heckler & Koch contracts for producing an updated standard assault rifle and updated standard sidearm for the Bundeswehr. Heckler & Koch developed and produced the Project HK50, a lightweight –reinforced polymer, which became the. In addition, Heckler & Koch produced the derived as a variant of its Universale Selbstladepistole (USP) series of handguns (which had been in production since 1989).
The P8 was adopted as the standard handgun for the Bundeswehr in 1994 and the G36 in 1995.As the result of a 1999 merger between British Aerospace and, Heckler & Koch was owned by and contracted to refurbish the rifle for the. This contract entailed a modification programme to the SA80 series of rifles to address a number of reliability issues with the SA80. In 2002, BAE Systems restructured and sold Heckler & Koch to a group of private investors, who created the German group holding company HK Beteiligungs GmbH.In 2003, HK Beteiligungs GmbH's business organization restructured as Heckler & Koch Jagd und Sportwaffen GmbH (HKJS) and its business was separated into the two business areas similar to the 1974 business mission areas, Defense and Law Enforcement and Sporting Firearms.In 2004, Heckler & Koch was awarded a major handgun contract for the, worth a potential $26.2 million for up to 65,000 handguns. This contract ranks as the single largest handgun procurement contract in US law enforcement history.