#Micro-caliber

Today we’ll be looking at a round with one of the strangest-looking projectiles ever designed for a military weapon: The joint Heckler & Koch-CETME 4.6x36mm round designed for the HK36 en-bloc clip fed assault rifle. The rifle was, as the name suggests, developed by HK, and based on their successful family of roller-retarded blowback rifles, including the G3, MP5, and HK33. It fed from an unusual fixed 30-round magazine, which was loaded from the side through a panel with a polymer 30 round en bloc clip. The projectile was developed by Gunther Voss, of CETME, the very same who invented the unique aluminum-cored projectiles for the 7.92×40 CETME a couple of decades earlier.

Hognose tackles one of the most confusingly designated of all Heckler and Koch weapons, the HK36 (distinct from the G36) and its 4.6x36mm round (itself distinct from H&K’s 4.6x30mm PDW round):