Heckler & Koch HK33: Difference between revisions
Heckler & Koch HK33: Difference between revisions - Internet Movie Firearms Database - Guns in Movies, TV and Video Games
Heckler & Koch HK33: Difference between revisions
Error creating thumbnail: File missingHeckler & Koch HK33-A2 Select Fire rifle with Factory 40rd Magazine. The original magazines available for the HK33 were only the 25 round and the 40 round. The 30 round curved magazine was developed during the introduction of the Civilian HK93 rifle and was provided for that rifle.
Capacity: 25, and 40 round box magazines factory standard. 30 round magazines available for the HK93.
Fire Modes: Safe/Semi/Full Auto
The Heckler & Koch HK33 and variants can be seen in the following movies, television shows, and video games:
Heckler & Koch 33
Error creating thumbnail: File missingHeckler & Koch HK33-A2 Select Fire rifle with Factory 25rd Magazine - 5.56x45mmError creating thumbnail: File missingHK33A3 Rifle with newer F style Telescoping stock - 5.56x45mm. This version has the 30 round magazine sold with the HK93 Sporter Rifle. It is obviously slight longer than the 25 round military magazine. Only the Semi Auto rifle was offered with a 30 round magazine from the factory.Error creating thumbnail: File missingHeckler & Koch HK33, 5.56x45 w/ HK79 40mm under-barrel grenade launcher.
Error creating thumbnail: File missingH&K 93-A2 Full Stock Rifle with 25 round magazine - 5.56x45mmError creating thumbnail: File missingVector Arms V-93 Full Stock Rifle with 40 round magazine - 5.56x45mm. Vector Arms is an American firearms manufacturer who is currently building a high quality clone of the HK33/93 rifles. The biggest visual difference between the Vector Arms V-93 guns and the original German rifles is the addition of an enlarged "MP5 Navy" style trigger group on the American gun and a single piece molded plastic buttstock (Like the later model MP5 stocks), a feature that is not present on the German rifle.
The HK93 is the semiautomatic civilian version of the HK33 Rifle imported into the United States between 1975 and 1989 (the year that all 'evil' looking rifles were in essence barred from import without some modifications). It is actually an updated version of the Civilian HK43 Rifle (which was the semi auto sporting rifle variant of the HK33 imported 1974.). It differs from the select fire HK33 by way of a metal trigger pack, no push pin assembly and no paddle release as well as the single "0" and "1" fire select settings (indicating it is a Semi Auto only rifle).
The HK33 reduced to the size of a Heckler & Koch MP5 to make it a Personal Defense Weapon (PDW). It is used by some military units or SWAT teams when both the power of a rifle and the compactness of a submachine gun is needed.
Developed in the 1980's, the G41 is an HK33 modified to STANAG standards. Besides having a uniquely-attached "burst" trigger group (Safe-Semi-3 round burst-Auto), the G41 could take M16 magazines. What killed the design was its outrageous price of $1,700 per weapon for law enforcement in 1980's dollars.
