Thread: Beretta ARX 100, importing

You guys maybe interested to know that during the Vietnam war the US Seals used some HK33 rifles , most have seen the odd photo from the top of a rifle that looks like a HK , and have thought it was a G3 , just like I did .
The photo was looking down into a boat from above and you can see its a HK type cocking tube etc , you cannot see , side on to see the mag or any other detail .

It appears it was a limited number of German made HK33 rifles with 40rd mags , that where sent marked H&R T223 , as if they where made in the USA by H&R , they where not , they are German made , and where an entry in the early squad machinegun trialls in 1965 during the war .

Seems the seals liked them , and carried a few into battle with them in Nam .

The USMC did coy level trialls with the Stoner63 , they liked them and wanted them instead of the M16 , but the US wanted one rifle as standard rather than 2 .
The Stoner63 would have been maybe better for them than the M16 , as in the surf, beach area & salt water environment , maybe steel would hold up better than Aluminium .
It was certainly much more modular in design , rifle , carbine , belt & mag feed LMG versions etc .

Later Chris