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KSK Operators during a mock takedown. G36Ks are the long guns.

LAPD SWAT officers in training exercise.

SAS assault

HK in Action around the world

The following four photographs are from Operation Schneller Adler (Quick Eagle), September, 1997. These are from training drills by the KSK, (Kommando Spezialkräfte) a counterterrorist wing of the German Bundeswehr.

LAPD SWAT officers in training exercise. Officer on left has MP5A3, officer on right has Benelli M1 Super 90 12 gauge shotgun. There is something unusual about the MP5. Can you spot it? It is an old style HK33/53/93 buttstock with convex buttplate.

The following images are from the SAS assault on the Iranian Embassy in London, England, May 5, 1980. This incident did more than any other to put the MP5 on the map as the preeminent arm for the "elite" teams. The British Special Air Service made its reputation on this incident, a solid success when it came to making a statement as to the rewards of terrorist hostage taking. Notice the large flashlights mounted on HK scope mounts. (Before SureFire forearm mounted flashlights.) They fought CQB style, with stocks retracted, due to the high degree of difficulty getting good sight pictures with gas masks on.

The image to the right is from the 22nd SAS and outlines what the operation was called, with a brief summation of the aftermath. After Prince's Gate, and with the movie based on it called "The Final Option," the MP5 was forever ingrained on the consciousness of the world as the de rigeur arm of the counterterror operator.

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