I read about a year ago the G36 had a horrible poi problem when hot. Most weapons change poi when hot but it was to very unacceptable amount with G36. And from what I read that was the reason for replacement
German New Service Rifle Selection just ran into road block
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If you don't tell the manufacturer that you want the weapon to be able to handle a 9 hour firefight, you can't be mad that the manufacturer didn't make the weapon capable of being in a 9 hour firefight.
What is acceptable is dependent on what the Bundeswehr asked from HK, and a German court found that HK had made rifles that fulfilled what they were asked for. It's just like the firefight at Wanat was used as all sorts of anti-M4 nonsense when in fact even the heavy weapons went down due to overheating.
An infantrymans rifle is not a squad machinegun. And when you use it like one, it's kind of like using it as a shovel. It might work, but it probably won't be ideal; and will probably be ####ed at the end of it.
And here we see HK testing it on a single fire because it was never meant to be a machine gun, right:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTbTyFloelc
The problem with the Bundeswher G36 is the airsoft Hensoldt/Zeiss dual sighting system. Based on my experience from many years ago, they are budget built. POI changes either because it doesn't hold zero well or it has outrageous parallax. People that ditched the airsoft sight and use more proper optics seem not to complain.
On the other hand, a lot of these "testing" on the internet doesn't really shoot "groups". 100m at a 12" steel target can afford a 2 or up to 4MOA shift without huge noticeable effect but it becomes very noticeable passing the 200m line.
A lot of these things also depend on how the original requirements were written in the contract. If the contract said if needs to put 80% of 10 rounds within 100mm X100mm square at 300m or something like that at 3 second per shot,at every 500 rounds during a 3000 round endurane testing, it doesn't guarantee what happens after 20 rounds at each accuracy test. It also does not say the rounds have to be staying inside the same 100mm X 100mm square. Y
I am afraid the truth is somewhere in between.
On the other hand, a lot of these "testing" on the internet doesn't really shoot "groups". 100m at a 12" steel target can afford a 2 or up to 4MOA shift without huge noticeable effect but it becomes very noticeable passing the 200m line.
A lot of these things also depend on how the original requirements were written in the contract. If the contract said if needs to put 80% of 10 rounds within 100mm X100mm square at 300m or something like that at 3 second per shot,at every 500 rounds during a 3000 round endurane testing, it doesn't guarantee what happens after 20 rounds at each accuracy test. It also does not say the rounds have to be staying inside the same 100mm X 100mm square. Y
I am afraid the truth is somewhere in between.
