HK MG5

Machine gun, Germany. In service since 2015

How to recognise it

7.62 mm belt-fed gun like an enlarged MG4: angular polymer furniture, side-folding stock, top rail and bipod.

Also known as

MG5, HK121

Used by

Germany

Same family

Naming one of these instead still scores family points.

• HK MG4

Other machine guns

• DShK
• FN MAG / M240
• FN Minimi / M249
• IWI Negev
• M2 Browning
• M60E6
• MG3
• NSV Utyos
• PKM
• RPK / RPK-74

Sources

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• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heckler & Koch MG5