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THERE ARE FEW REAL STEEL PLATFORMS AS ICONIC AND INSTANTLY RECOGNISABLE AS THE HECKLER & KOCH “MASCHINE PISTOLE 5” OR, AS WE KNOW IT, THE “MP5”. AA LEGIONNAIRE, STEWBACCA, REVISITS THIS AIRSOFT STALWART, IN THE FORM OF THE WETECH APACHE MP5K.

From the outstanding free advertising in the hands of the UK’s SAS resolving the Iranian Embassy siege, to the ubiquity in media and video games and no doubt many of you, like me and the Airsoft Action Red Cell folks, recently enjoyed the great Christmas tradition of watching Die Hard …with a suitable MP5 to hand if you own one!

From its initial introduction in the late 1960’s, to its continued presence even today in the hands of military and law enforcement operatives the world over, the HK MP5 has cemented itself as a firearms cultural centrepiece. It is the “model of comparison”, or what everyone seeks to better, with its roller delayed action famous from its WW2 origins and the Mauser works engineers (who would go on to work for CETME in Spain before founding Heckler & Koch in Oberndorf, in Germany), building on the decades of firearms experience that brought the world the G3 battle rifle, which was then scaled down to its new 9mm sibling, in the guise of the submachine gun.

Personally, I’ve owned various versions over my years of airsofting, with JG and Galaxy MP5J, MP5A4 and MP5k PDW AEGs back in the UK and now for most of my time in Taiwan, a second-hand WETech Apache MP5k PDW GBB. With imminent plans to obtain more spare components, magazines and a solid stock, as well as either a WETech MP5A3 or MP5SD3 in early 2021, to allow me to cover a wider range of models with replaceable telescopic, folding or fixed stocks.

SHOOTING FUN!