Posted on 05/12/2011 9:45:32 AM PDT by PSYCHO-FREEP
Sources say the HK416 rifle was used to kill bin Laden. The biggest secret in the special operations communitywhat gun did SEALs from "DevGru" kill Osama bin Laden withhas been revealed. Two military gear blogs, citing multiple insider sources, credit the highly reliable HK416 rifle, an M-16 type weapon, with the "double tap" of 5.56 mm bullets to bin Laden's head.
While the military isn't talking about what SEALs from United States Naval Special Warfare Development Group, formerly SEAL Team Six, carried in, two sitesMilitary Times Gear Scout and Soldier Systemssaid the gun used was the German made, Delta Force designed Heckler & Koch rifle used by several militaries.
"I've just heard from a SOCOM vet," says Military Times "He tells me the stack of SEAL assaulters from Red team that went through Osama bin Laden's bedroom door were running HK416s."
Soldier Systems adds that bin Laden "was gunned down using German engineering the HK416 which was my gut feeling from the very beginning."
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Mommy wants daddy. ;-)
LoL! and (((ping)))
“Sounds like a good bit of Osama’s noggin isn’t in the Ocean but decorating a wall in Pakistan. “
Which may be why a fire was started. No “relics,” for his followers.
“Look Achmed! Look! I have The Great One’s nose in my holy fruit jar!”
Mike
But what a beautiful weapon.
Doesn’t require a burst.
Double taps are, technically, one aimed shot with a quick follow-up made without reacquiring the same sight picture. Semi-auto is used.
As opposed to a “controlled pair”, with the second shot also made using aimed fire.
You’ve got a real beauty there, back before everything was all licensed out to knock-off manufacturers. Good deal.
LOL!!
Nope.
both use a gas-piston system.
It’s the bolt LOCKUP that’s different.
HK uses a roller bolt in the HK-9x series, while the HK-416 uses the standard rotating bolt lockup.
The particular gun will hopefully be in a display case somewhere for people to admire.
Que?
Piston operated systems vent all gases outside the receiver. Nothing goes near the cartridge or chamber. The gas moves a piston which connects to an op-rod that pushes the bolt.
Wha?
Sad but true. So now what? Guess reality is we wait until November 6, 2012.
I don’t think I have ever seen a thread on FR where so many people think they are experts but clearly don’t know what they are talking about.
the chamber flutes only help in extraction by mitigating some of the obturation of the case aginst the chamber wall. all of the recoil energy has been transmitted to the bolt before any gas reaches the chamber flutes.
Anyway, in the G3/HK91, the chamber flutes do not extend all the way to the mouth of the chamber, so there is no pathway for the gas to reach the bolthead unntil the case is extracted from the chamber.
So then, instead of the HK416 being the "Really Cool Gun that killed Bin Laden" it will be the "Really Cool Gun that DIDN'T kill Bin Laden".
Either way, it's still a Really Cool Gun!
;-)
I want one.
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