Almost Adopted: The HK XM 8 Family

Cool Forgotten Weapons merch Today we are in H K s Grey Room in Virginia, taking a look at the XM8 program. The rifle evolved form the kinetic energy carbine portion of the doomed XM29, OICW program, and eventually became the G36 rifle. In between those two, however, it was the XM8, and it came close to adoption by the US XM8 was designed to be a very modular system, with a variety of interchangeable