The Ministry of defence of Germany has lost a lawsuit against the supplier of weapons for the Bundeswehr.
The low quality standard assault rifle G36 in service with the German army since 1996, the leadership of the defense Ministry of Germany beginning to speak loudly in the spring of last year. By the time the results of the report prepared by the experts of the Service of defense equipment, defense science Institute for the working and production materials and Scientific society of the name Fraunhofer, which has been analyzed numerous deficiencies the most common weapons of the German army. Among the manufacturing defects identified by the experts was the strong overheating of the rifle when firing bursts, and decrease of accuracy in connection with a change in humidity or temperature, and even possible burns to the soldier when firing. “The reason for the reduced precision when shooting – is the lack not only of any component of the weapon, and flaw the whole system,” – noted then in the final examination.
As a result, the head of the Ministry of defense Ursula von der Leyen (Ursula von der Leyen) was forced to officially recognize that rifle G36 do not meet all the technical demands made on modern weaponry in the military. A number of German politicians then demanded to find an urgent replacement for the G36 rifle, but a weapons manufacturer – the company Heckler & Koch – sue and seek monetary compensation. If this policy were indignant that the arms firm she inspected the rifle, and she put on her departmental quality mark. In this case, however, no one asked a question about why the German officials from numerous departments related to the procurement of arms, and not attended to earlier as a weapon, although this problem was known at least since 2010?
“The case of the rifle”, the result was the consideration of the land court of Koblenz, which is the second of September, decided to reject the requirements of the Ministry of defence on the payment provider of financial damage.
