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The G95 Takes Over: Germany’s New Standard Rifle After Three Decades of the G36

The G36 has been the German soldier’s rifle since the late 1990s. That run is finished. First rifles reached Panzergrenadier Battalion 122 at Grafenwöhr in December 2025. Training is now spreading through the units scheduled to receive them. By the end of 2026, roughly 20,000 of the short-barrel G95KA1 should be in the force. Heckler […]