HS PRODUCT VHS 2 SHORTLISTED FOR A NEW ASSAULT RIFLE OF THE FRENCH ARMY

VHS 2 remained in competition with four other bidders

Author:
Davor Ivankovic

Croatian companies (HS Produkt, Madlerd, Scam Marine, JLM Perkovic, Inkop, Olympus instrumentation, Šestan-Busch and Dok-ing) at the exhibition of arms in Abu Dhabi were represented by the state agency Alan, and according to the agency's director Ivica Nekich, with this year's IDEX come very good news because the interest in Croatian weapons and military equipment is large. It is estimated that so far contracted jobs are worth more than 100 million.

To the question, what is the interest of customers for a new "star" of the Croatian military industry, VHS assault rifle 2, Karlovac HS Produkt, Ivica Nekić remarkably states - "substantial". HS Product company has started a serial production of this sophisticated rifle that reached a cost of a German Heckler and Koch ", and the first 10,000 pieces were sold to Iraq.

The smaller amount was purchased by the Croatian Ministry of Defence, which has planned to replace the 7000 VHS 1 rifles with the "number two". At the tender for a new rifle for the French army, VHS 2 has come among five remaining bidders (after 5 have already fallen).
In already contracted sales of guns, helmets and equipment, it is expected that navy vessels from Croatian producers will be also ordered.

Source:

http://www.vecernji.hr/kompanije-i-trzista/hs-produktov-vhs-2-u-uzem-izboru-za-novu-pusku-francuske-vojske-992082

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So, Iraq is first to use most advanced assault rifle available at this time.

More at Croatian source that is constructor and the manufacturer of:

and

which are sold in US under Springfield mark.

http://www.hs-produkt.hr/

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New ammunition ban for AR-15 is shameless.
Here, nearby, underground ammunition factory of ex Yugoslavia, in Bosnia produces best ammunition at this world for, both, Russia and US. They give 10 year warranty for it's fail safe action.

IZAKOVIC