why did the company that innovated with the mp5 decide to just

>>34763558
Because gemoney was sick of the abomination that is the G36

The army asked them to.

>>34763558

The 416 was supposed to be a stopgap measure to make the M4 more reliable in the early 2000s. Back then it looked like the XM8 would be the new army rifle even though it was just a reshelled G36 which itself was based off the AR18.

The big difference is that Colt and other manufacturers and their puppets that profit from the AR design don't fight as hard to kill AR variants. If the 416 was a different rifle with proprietary parts but the same performance it would be dead just like the XM8.

>piston system
>just another boring m16

>>34763558
They watched 50 years of US small arms procurement and drew the only possible conclusion.

>>34763558
Because ARs sell. And the goal of the company is to make money. Not please internet autists who want different for the sake of being different.

>>34763558
HK is the only company that eliminated the carrier tilt most other piston ARs suffer from.