Good photos, thanks a lot to NGI. 

 

You guys shouldn't throw away all your G3A3. That may come handy in those areas.

 

 Didn't know about the G36-ish handle/sight on MG4. Any info on that one?

First recorded IED attack on Bundeswehr (at least that I have found) The IED could not penetrate the armor because it exploded in the gap between two Fuchs vehicles:

 

[ XXXttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLtHfcB8PUQ ]

 

 

To the G-3 question:  I also find it unfortunate, but with the MG-3 there is still a good 7,62mm in action to support the infantry.  (they will not be replaced fully by the MG-4 because troops complained)

 

 

 

 

 

As seen here, the Fuchs armor has withstood the blast quite good, only 1 soldier slightly injured.

 

 MG-4 pic:

 

 

 

 That is a local sign from a village about 30 kilometers west of where I live that hosts the Panzergrenadiere (and served from 02/ 04 - 11 /05 )

 

MP5:

 

 

 

 

Here are some from late Oct.

 

Shows the newly arrived Paratroopers on escort for visiting members of the German Parliament.

 

 

 

40mm GMG

 

 

 

 qoute gettyimages:

 

 Members of the German lower house of parliament Bundestag Anita Schaefer, Winfried Nachtwei, Paul Schaefer and German Bundeswehr soldiers of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) attend a debriefing session after a tour outside the camp in Kunduz, October 1, 2008. Chancellor Angela Merkel's government hopes to win a parliamentary mandate this month to increase troop numbers in Afghanistan by 1,000 soldiers.

 

 

 

 

bitte enlighten me. Is the german army stil using MG42? 

The barrel of the mg the soldier holds in the last pic looks like an mg42's

That's the MG3 -- basically an MG42 in 7.62.  Don't know offhand of the ROF is similar or not.

 

ZF-

 

As said, the German Army uses an modified version in 7,62 mm and 1200 rounds per minute (original MG42 fired 1500 rpm)

 

 

 

link

Wow, those are great pictures!

 

Are those German women hanging up on the wall?

And is that within regulations?

 

 

 

Compared to the old helmet, often referred to as "Pisspott" (Pissing Bowl) my impression is that the troops like the "new" helmet.  (Its not really new but was introduced after Reunification and NVA absorption)

 

PS: It makes parades look German again ^^ 

 

Pics update:  Merkel visits troops on suprise visit  - Kunduz, April 6, 2009. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Another Pic update:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 A soldier of the German armed forces Bundeswehr listens to his walkie talkie as he patrols near wreckage from the Soviet-Afghan war, outside the German army camp in Kunduz, northern Afghanistan April 16, 2009.

 

 

 Members of the German armed forces Bundeswehr look out of a CH-53GS helicopter as they approach the German camp in Kunduz, on their transer flight from Mazar-e-Sharif, northern Afghanistan April 16, 2009.

 

 Soldiers of German armed forces Bundeswehr assemble ammunition and equipment outside their Dingo armoured personnel carrier before they go onto a patrol outside the German camp in Kunduz, northern Afghanistan April 16, 2009.

 

 

An Afghan contractor stitches name badges for German armed forces Bundeswehr and NATO allied forces at his shop at Camp Marmal, in Mazar-e-Sharif, northern Afghanistan April 15, 2009.