Stop criticizing Puppe, he is correct. STANAG magazines and the M16 magazine well compromises the reliability of the weapon. One one reason why the XM8 suffered significantly less stoppages than the SCAR-L and HK416 in the army’s dust test is because of a much more reliable magazine. G36 mags holds the mag in the correct position in the mag well and doesn’t shake in the mag well. G36 mags are more durable than USGI mags. Steyr AUG is actually quite a success and is used by many nations. Australian soldiers still use the AUG as their standard rifle. I believe that Australian Spec ops switch to the AR-15 series was because you can’t shoot a bullpup with your weak hand and around corners. SG 550 is not a failure, French military and certain US police departments use it. G36 is also a success and is used by many militaries, it was not abandoned after the HK416. HK416 is offered as an alternative solution to upgrade AR-15 rifles.

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First of all the STANAG requirement should mean that it is highly reliable, but in reality it is not. STANAG 5.56×45 magazines are made of aluminum. This is a problem because the feed lips can easily be dented and cause load failures and jams, the thin aluminum body is also prone to denting and causing misfeeds. The sheer number of complaints about the STANAG 5.56×45 by soldiers in the last twenty years is a tip off that something was awry. The flaws of the STANAG 5.56×45 magazine drove the Magpul company to design the 5.56×45 Pmag. But most nations that use STANAG do it for reasons of cost. Cost prohibits many countries from going with a proprietary magazine that would work better in those weapons.

Second point is that both the Steyr Aug and Sig 550 started with much more reliable proprietary magazines due to seeing the flaws in the STANAG 5.56×45. They continue to use these unique magazines. Steyr Aug and Sig 550 failures? Hardly. Both rifles are far more reliable and made to a higher standard of quality than the AR15s. If anything their popularity is increasing. US border patrol and immigration use the Aug as their standard rifle. Australia has NOT replaced the Aug with the AR15 platform.

Next point is this claim that “HK abandoned the G36″. The G36 was never abandoned, they have never stopped production. It is a very popular selling rifle, it is so popular that its been copied or served as the base of other new rifle platforms made by other countries such as Mexico via the FX-05. The polymer G36 magazines are far more reliable than the aluminum STANAG 5.56×45 magazines, and they allow multiple magazines to be clipped together for faster reloading.

The cold war is over, the supreme need for magazine standardization is losing grip. Economics are the new battleground of the world, it is more sensible to make a domestic assault rifle that keeps that money within said country. The benefits are many-fold; using more modern designs, more advanced materials, and too many other benefits to mention. This produces jobs ranging from engineers to factory workers and helps keep a national economy running.

As for the CZ805 being dead? I have to say no, that’s false. The trend in Europe along with the rest of the developed world is for domestic assault rifles, the Indian Insas rifle, Italian ARX-160, Israel’s Tar-21, Mexico’s FX-05, Croatian VHS, Japanese Type 89. The list goes on, but the age when a single kind of rifle like the AR15 or AK platform is used in developed nations is ending.

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For people worried of the rifle not accepting the STANAG mag, I feel that if the rifle does make it to the US market a AR15 lower would be available.

I know I will be getting the AK and AR kits If I can!

PS – I am willing to bet that this will beat the Bushy ACR to market

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I don’t think you know what you’re talking about. Lets use critical thinking skills for a second because I know that the public school system don’t teach it anymore.

STANAG is NATO standards. To become standard everyone must agree on it and it must passed hash requirements. To said STANAG magazines is not reliable is stupid.

Steyr AUG and Sig 550 series of rifles started their design phase before there were standardized magazine. Both rifles IMHO are failures. The AUG has been ditched by Australia SF in favor of the AR15.

CZ S805 more or less dead. Military and LE won’t want to spend the money and room space for overpriced magazines that only work for one rifle.

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What do you consider good? If it were a great seller why did HK abandon it?

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Dunno. G36s sold pretty well.

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I still don’t understand the sharp side up style of bayonet either, even though a good chunk of my rifles are that way too.

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