This Is What You Never Knew About The Dangerous Gun Heckler & Koch HK416 That American Navy Seals Used In Killing Global Terrorist & Islamist Osama Bin Laden

The Heckler & Koch HK416 is an assault rifle/carbine designed and manufactured by Heckler & Koch. Although its design is in large part based on the AR-15 class of weapons, specifically the Colt M4 carbine family issued to the U.S. military , it uses an HK-proprietary short-stroke gas piston system originally derived from the ArmaLite AR-18 (the same system was also used in Heckler & Koch’s earlier G36 family of rifles).

A Norwegian soldier armed with HK416N in Afghanistan 

 Heckler & Koch HK416N with 419

 mm ( 16.1 in)  long barrel an Aimpoint, CompM4 ,red dot sight and a vertical fore grip.

The HK416 gained fame as the weapon that United States Navy SEALs from DEVGRU Red Squadron used to kill Osama Bin Laden in 2011.

Osama bin Laden, the founder and head of the Islamist group Al-Qaeda, was killed in Pakistan on May 2, 2011 shortly after 1:00 am PKT (20:00 UTC, May 1) by United States Navy SEALs of the U.S. Naval Special Warfare Development Group (also known as DEVGRU or SEAL Team Six). 

Diagram of Osama Bin Laden's hide out showing the high concrete walls that surround the compound

The operation, code-named Operation Neptune Spear, was carried out in a CIA-led operation with Joint Special Operations Command, commonly known as JSOC, coordinating the Special Mission Units involved in the raid. In addition to SEAL Team Six, participating units under JSOC included the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Airborne)—also known as “Night Stalkers”—and operators from the CIA’s Special Activities Division, which recruits heavily from former JSOC Special Mission Units. 

The operation ended a nearly 10-year search for bin Laden, following his role in the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.

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