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Heckler & Koch MP5

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Specifications

Type: Sub-machine gun

Caliber: 9x19mm Parabellum (MP5), .40 S&W (MP5/40), 10mm (MP5/10)

Capacity: 15, 30 round box magazines, 100 round Beta-C drum magazine

Fire Modes: Safe/Semi/Full-Auto (MP5A1, MP5A2, MP5A3, MP5K) & Safe/Semi/Burst/Full-Auto (MP5A4, MP5A5, MP5KA4)


The Heckler & Koch MP5 family of sub-machine guns is used by the following actors in the following movies, television series, anime, and video games:

Heckler & Koch MP5A2

Heckler & Koch MP5A2 9x19mm with early "slimline" handguard
Heckler & Koch MP5A2 9x19mm with "tropical" wide handguard
Heckler & Koch MP5A2 9x19mm with Surefire 628 dedicated forend weaponlight
Heckler & Koch MP5-N 9x19mm, an A2 model with a Navy Trigger Group
Heckler & Koch MP5A2 9x19mm with Surefire 628 dedicated forend weaponlight and Navy trigger group, used in S.W.A.T.

The first MP5s looked very different than the MP5s that Movie and television viewers have become accustomed to. Since the early models were rarely (if ever) seen outside of Europe and not manufactured in the same numbers as the common variants (starting with the A2), this page begins with the MP5A2 model, since that is the earliest model MP5 that would be seen in World Cinema.

Also many MP5A2s (and A3s) were retrofitted with ambidextrous Navy lower trigger groups (both in the real world and Movie armories) and many times these MP5N models are confused with the newer factory issued MP5A4s and MP5A5s. The MP5-N (Navy) has a unique 3 lug and threaded barrel unique to the N variant versus four firing positions (which indicates it is a factory A4 or A5 variant).

Film

  • Miami P.D. SWAT in Bad Boys II (fitted with Surefire dedicated forend weaponlights)
  • Serbian soldier named Goran in Savior
  • British police and a Hostage Rescue Team in Patriot Games (with slimline handguards)
  • L.A.P.D. SWAT in Dragon Wars: D-War (fitted with Surefire dedicated fore end weapon lights)

Television

  • Miami P.D. SWAT in CSI: Miami (with scopes and Surefire dedicated forend weaponlights)
  • N.Y.P.D. SWAT in CSI: NY (episode: "Hostage", fitted with Surefire 628 dedicated forend weaponlights)
  • Bugs (episode "Out Of The Hive")
  • Canadian Police SRT Officer in Degrassi (episode: "Danger Zone")

Video Games

Game Title Appears as Mods Notation Release Date
Enter the Matrix With and without weaponlight 2003
Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker 2010

Anime

Character Film Title Note Date
I.S.S.P. SWAT Cowboy Bebop the Movie: Knockin' on Heaven's Door With Surefire dedicated forend weaponlights 2001
Bank Robbers Case Closed MP5NA2 2010
Various Jyu-oh-sei MP5NA2 2006
Missou's bodyguards Stigma of the Wind 2007
Olympus Police Appleseed slimline handguards 1988

Heckler & Koch MP5A3

Heckler & Koch MP5A3 with original "slimline" handguard and straight "waffle"-style magazine - 9x19mm
Heckler & Koch MP5A3 with original "slimline" forearm - 9x19mm
Heckler & Koch MP5A3 with "tropical" (wide) forearm - 9x19mm with stock extended
Heckler & Koch MP5A3 9x19mm
Heckler & Koch MP5A3 9x19mm with Surefire 628 dedicated forend weaponlight
Heckler & Koch MP5A3 9x19mm with Navy trigger group
Heckler & Koch MP5A3 9x19mm with Surefire 628 dedicated forend weaponlight and safe-semi-two round burst trigger group

Note: Some MP5A3s featured in films of the 1980's-90's like Die Hard, Lethal Weapon, Speed, and Air Force One, are actually "chopped and converted" HK94 Carbines.

Film

  • F.B.I. Hostage Rescue Team in Hannibal (2001)
  • N.Y.P.D. SWAT in 16 Blocks (fitted with Surefire dedicated forend weaponlights, with SEF and Navy trigger groups)
  • Vampire Death Dealers and Lycans in Underworld (the latter having Surefire dedicated forend weaponlights)
  • N.Y.P.D. SWAT officers in Light It Up (fitted with Surefire 628 dedicated forend weaponlights, laser pointers, and scopes)
  • N.Y.P.D. and FBI SWAT in The Siege (the latter fitted with laser pointers and red dot sights)
  • Terrorists dressed as Toronto ERT Operatives in The Sentinel
  • U.S. Secret Service agents in X2: X-Men United (fitted with Surefire 628 dedicated forend weaponlights)
  • Prince Otwani and his soldiers in Sheena
  • A federal agent in X-Men (with Navy trigger group)

Television

  • SAS members in Bottom (episode: "Carnival")
  • Pest exterminators in Family Guy (fitted with Surefire 628 dedicated forend weaponlights)
  • L.A.P.D. SWAT in Seven Days (episode "Doppleganger", fitted with Surefire 628 dedicated forend weaponlights)
  • Used by the Global Defense Department in Caprica


Anime

Character Film Title Note Date
Special Forces Kochikame With & Without Surefire dedicated forend weaponlights 1996 - 2005

Video Games

Game Title Appears as Mods Notation Release Date
Hitman: Codename 47 2000
Kane and Lynch: Dead Men With & without Surefire dedicated forend weaponlight 2007
007: Agent Under Fire "Koffer & Stock KS7" 2001
Battlefield 2 With Navy trigger group 2005
Project Reality With Navy trigger group 2005
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City 2002
Shadow the Hedgehog With Navy trigger group 2005
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas 2005
IGI 2: Covert Strike 2003
Resident Evil 5 2009
SWAT 4 2005
Half-Life With mounted grenade launcher 1998


Heckler & Koch MP5A4

Heckler & Koch MP5A4 9x19mm - The A4 has an additional option on the selector for '3 round burst' thus possessing four fire options - Safe, Semi Auto, 3 round burst and full auto.

Film

Actor Character Title Note Date
SWAT officers Crank With Surefire dedicated forend weaponlight 2006
Japanese counter-terrorism soldiers Battle Royale II: Requiem With Surefire dedicated forend weaponlight 2003

Television

Video Games

Game Title Appears as Mods Notation Release Date
Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 With optional M68 Aimpoint red dot scope 2007
Combat Arms 2008
Rainbow Six 3: Black Arrow MP5A4 (9mm) ACOG Scope none 2004

Anime

Title Character Note Date
Library War Media Betterment Committee tactical operators With & Without Surefire dedicated forend weaponlights 2008
High School of the Dead Riot Police officers 2010
Elfen Lied S.A.T. Security Guards, Bondo Used with M203 by Bondo 2004

Heckler & Koch MP5A5

Heckler and Koch MP5A5 9x19mm - Same as the MP5A4 but with a telescoping stock. Both the A4 & A5 variants have the additional option for '3 round burst' on the selector.
Heckler & Koch MP5A5 9x19mm with Surefire dediated forend weaponlight

Film

Actor Character Title Note Date
SWAT officers Adulthood 2008
U.S. Navy SEALs The Rock With Surefire dedicated forend weaponlight 1996
Anarchy 99 Henchmen XXX With RIS foregrips & Beta-C drum magazines 2002
N.Y.P.D SWAT 16 Blocks With Surefire dedicated forend weaponlights 2006
Guerrilla Tropic Thunder 2008

Video Games

Game Title Appears as Mods Notation Release Date
ArmA II 2009
Rainbow Six: Vegas "MP5N" With optional Surefire dedicated forend weaponlight, M68 Aimpoint red dot & ACOG scopes 2006
Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 "MP5N" With optional Surefire dedicated forend weaponlight, silencer, M68 Aimpoint red dot & ACOG scopes 2008
Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield w/ ACOGs, suppressors and high-capacity magazines 2003
Counter-Strike "KM Submachine Gun" 2000
Counter-Strike: Condition Zero "KM Submachine Gun" 2003
Counter-Strike: Source "KM Submachine Gun" 2004
Black 2006
Counter-Strike Online "KM Submachine Gun" With White Tiger doll
Gold finishes
2007
Combat Arms With RIS foregrip and MP5K-PDW folding stock 2008
Hitman: Contracts 2004
Parasite Eve II With weaponlight 1999
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare 2007
SOCOM: Confrontation "HK5" 2008
SOCOM: US Navy SEALs Fireteam Bravo 3 MK5 2010
Left 4 Dead 2 H&K MP5 w/ the tactical flashlight and optional laser sight
50 round
German Version only 2009

Anime

Title Character Note Date
Sonic X GUN Agents
Batman: Gotham Knight Gotham P.D. 2008




Heckler & Koch MP5SD

Heckler & Koch MP5SD3 9x19mm with S-E-F trigger group and Stock Extended.
Heckler & Koch MP5SD6 9x19mm with Stock Extended and 3-round trigger group. What is unusual is that most Airsoft versions of this gun don't have the fourth (3 rd burst) position whereas the real gun does.

Film

Actor Character Title Note Date
Owen Burke Desmond 'Dez' Elden The Town 2010
Alex Borstein Lily Bailey Killers 2010
Watchmen Seen in the Comedian's closet 2009
Street Kings on gun rack 2008
SWAT officers Punisher: War Zone 2008
Special Forces soldier Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem 2007
Adam Baldwin Jayne Serenity Modified MP5SD2 with scope attachment and straight magazines 2005
SEK officers The Bourne Supremacy 2004
SDU officers Breaking News MP5SD3 model 2004
FBI SWAT agents The Punisher With Surefire Universal weaponlight 2004
Will Smith Det. Mike Lowrey Bad Boys II With M68 Aimpoint red dot scope and Surefire Universal weaponlight 2003
Antoni Corone DEA Agent Tony Dodd Bad Boys II With M68 Aimpoint red dot scope & Surefire Universal weaponlight 2003
Miami P.D. SWAT Bad Boys II With Surefire Universal weaponlight 2003
PJF Agents A Man Apart 2003
Simulated terrorists Die Another Day 2002
Thug Analyze That UHC airsoft model 2002
SAT officers Wasabi Tokyo Marui airsoft models 2001
Security Forces personnel The One With custom suppressor, scope, and G36-style stock 2001
SFPD SWAT officers Ticker 2001
Kim Bodina Harald In China They Eat Dogs 1999
Serbian gangsters In China They Eat Dogs 1999
Wei's bodyguards The Replacement Killers MP5SD6 models 1998
Kris Kristofferson Whistler Blade 1998
Tim Kelleher Argento The Negotiator MP5SD2 with weapon light 1998
Bruce Willis The Jackal The Jackal Fake MP5SD3 with smooth handguard 1997
Boyd Kestner Wickwire G.I. Jane MP5SD3 model 1997
FBI SWAT agents Face/Off 1996
John Leguizamo Captain Rat Executive Decision MP5SD3, with Navy lower receiver 1996
Richard Brooks Wellman The Substitute 1996
Charlie Sheen Lt. Dale Hawkins Navy SEALs 1990
Dennis Haysbert Graham Navy SEALs 1990
Michael Biehn Lt. James Curran Navy SEALs 1990
The Red Spectacles Non-firing replica 1987

Television

  • Heroin Dealer's Thugs in Burn Notice - Season 1, Episode 11: Loose Ends, Part 1, fitted with Art I scopes.
  • Alliance soldiers during boarding of Firefly in Firefly - Season 1, Episode 2 Bushwhacked. Also Alliance guard in interrogation room.

Video games

Game Title Appears as Mods Notation Release Date
ArmA II 2009
007: The World Is Not Enough "Deutsche M9S" With laser pointer and scope 2000
Operation Flashpoint 2001
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare 2007
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots 2008
Code of Honor 2: Conspiracy Island 2008
Project I.G.I 2000
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories 2006
Far Cry 2 2008
Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 With optional M68 Aimpoint red dot scope 2007
Hitman 2: Silent Assassin "SMG-SD6" 2002
Shadow Force: Razor Unit "Mp-5S" 2002
SOCOM: Confrontation "HK5 SD" 2008
SOCOM: US Navy SEALs Fireteam Bravo 3 "HK5" 2010
Mercenaries 2: World in Flames Red painter's tape on the magazine 2008
America's Army Multiplayer mode only, non-playable 2002
Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield "MP5SD5" With optional ACOG scope and high-capacity magazine 2003
Rainbow Six 3: Black Arrow MP5SD5 (9mm) ACOG Scope none 2004

Anime

Character Film Title Note Date
Yamainu Soldiers When They Cry MP5SD3 2006
COSMOS Soldiers Spriggan MP5SD3 1994
Olympus Police Appleseed MP5SD3 with solid stocks 1988

Heckler & Koch HK94

Heckler & Koch HK94A3 - 9x19mm
Heckler & Koch HK94A2 with Full Stock - 9x19mm
The "Fake MP5", the Heckler & Koch HK94A3 Converted to full auto fire, shortened barrel and added third firing position on trigger pack - 9x19mm. This version was used in many films during the 1980s and 1990s.
The "Fake MP5", the Heckler & Koch HK94A2 Converted to full auto fire, shortened barrel and added third firing position on trigger pack - 9x19mm. This version was used in many films during the 1980s and 1990s.

The Heckler & Koch HK94 was the civilian semiautomatic version of the famous MP5 Submachine gun (with the 'legal' 16" carbine barrel). It was imported in the late 1970s to late 1980s (its importation banned in 1989 by the infamous ATF re-interpretation of the "Sporting Clause" of GCA-68. In May 1989 the ATF determined that the imported 'assault weapons' were not suitable for sporting purposes as put forth by the older GCA 68.), however many more HK94s were imported into the country than factory original MP5s during that time period. In the early 1980s, it was cheaper to convert the plentiful and less expensive semiauto gun and register it as a Title II weapon. A large portion of the full auto MP5s coming into the country were slated for Law Enforcement and Military sales.


Note: In some films of the 1980's and 1990's, the HK94 is "chopped and converted", to look like the MP5A3.


Film

Television

  • Used by LAPD SWAT team members (with surefire lights) on Moonlight (2007) (HK94 Chopped & Converted)
  • Seen in the hands of Randall Flagg's henchmen in Las Vegas in The Stand

Anime

Character Film Title Note Date
Kochikame, The UFO Movie


Heckler & Koch MP5K

Note: Some MP5Ks seen in film are modified SP89s that are fitted with a forward handgrip and converted to full auto.

Heckler & Koch MP5K - version with SEF Plastic Trigger Pack - 9x19mm. This is a very well worn Motion picture weapon
Heckler & Koch MP5KN 9x19mm - updated with the Navy Trigger Group. The Navy trigger group dates to 1985, the MP5K-PDW to 1991. The MP5K is available in the newer MP5KN, MP5KA4, and MP5KA5 configurations, which all have the ambidextrous trigger group. Another 'well used' actual movie blank firing gun.
Heckler & Koch MP5KA4 (3 round burst added) with 15-round magazine - 9x19mm

Film

  • Johnny Wong's Thugs and Hong Kong SDU Team in Hard Boiled
  • Gang member disguised as a hobo in S.W.A.T.
  • A Terrorist, U.S. Special Forces Operators, and Harrison Ford as President James Marshall in Air Force One (The Special Forces' fitted with suppressors.)
  • Terrorists in Die Hard 2 (with two magazines taped together 'jungle style'.)
  • Gustav Graves' henchmen in Die Another Day (with and without suppressors, including at least one with the foregrip removed exposing the barrel)

Television

  • Secret Service agents in seasons 2, 5, and 7 of 24

Anime

Character Film Title Note Date
Faye Valentine Cowboy Bebop With 15-round magazine 1998 - 1999
Faye Valentine Cowboy Bebop the Movie: Knockin' on Heaven's Door 2001
Francesco Noir 2001
Asobi ni Ikuyo! 2010
BMA terrorists, GGP Ridebacks Rideback 2009
ARCAM Researchers Spriggan 1994
Various characters New Dominion Tank Police 1993
Narcotics Suppression Squad Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex fitted with flashlights 2002
Combat android Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex 2nd Gig 2004-2005

Video Games

Game Title Appears as Mods Notation Release Date
GoldenEye 007 D5K Deutsche Available with and without suppressor 1997
007: Nightfire Deutsche M9K w/ 15-round magazine and removable suppressor 2002
Stranglehold 2007
007: Everything or Nothing 2003
Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories w/ extended barrel and modified handgrip 2005
Saints Row 2 SKR-9 Threat w/ straight 40 round magazine 2008
The Conduit 2009
Timesplitters: Future Perfect 2005
Modern Warfare 2 Akimbo 2009

Heckler & Koch MP5K-PDW

MP5K 9x19mm with the PDW-style folding stock attached, commonly used in films to emulate the PDW. The real MP5K-PDW, illustrated below, is distinctive in having the longer barrel and the newer trigger group.
MP5K-PDW 9x19mm with extended barrel (with 3 lugs & folding stock

The PDW (Personal Defense Weapon) was an upgrade to the MP5K, adding a synthetic folding stock to create a stable firing platform for more accurate fire, and extended the barrel and put on three lugs to quick attach flash hiders or suppressors.

Film

Television

Video Games

Game Title Appears as Mods Notation Release Date
Mirror's Edge 2008
Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield 2003

Anime

Character Title Note Date
Claes Gunslinger Girl With side-folding stock 2003 - 2004
Full Metal Panic! With side-folding stock 2005

Heckler & Koch MP5K Prototype

Shortened MP5A2 with added foregrip, that has been developed in hardly more than few pieces in 1976.

Heckler & Koch MP5K prototype with 15-round "waffle" magazine, 9x19mm. Note wooden foregrip.







Video Games

Game Title Appears as Mods Notation Release Date
Call of Duty: Black Ops MP5k Various Attachments 2010

Heckler & Koch SP89

Heckler & Koch SP89 Pistol with factory 15-round magazine 9x19mm
A "faux" Heckler & Koch MP5K - this is an original SP89 pistol converted to full auto fire by a Class III armorer. Giveaways are the lack of a paddle magazine release. This version was also used in movies between 1989 and the late 1990s when factory original MP5Ks were not available - 9x19mm

The SP89 is a semi-auto version of the MP5K & was banned from importation in 1993.

Film

  • A vampire in Blade (Straight SP89 Version)
  • A U.S. Navy SEAL in The Rock (Straight SP89 Version)
  • Dennis Hopper as Howard Payne in Speed ("faux" MP5K with nickel finish, MP5K foregrip, and converted to full auto)
  • Thug in the Hotel shoot out in Barb Wire (Straight SP89 Version)
  • Pamela Anderson as Barbara "Barb Wire" Kopetski in Barb Wire (done as a "faux" MP5K with nickel finish, MP5K foregrip, and converted to full auto)

Television

  • Various villians in Cobra



Heckler & Koch MP5/10 and MP5/40

Heckler & Koch MP5/40 .40 S&W
Heckler & Koch MP5/10 with suppressor 10mm

Video Games

Game Title Appears as Mods Notation Release Date
The Punisher .40 cal Submachine Gun w/ optional Beta-C drum magazine 2005
Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear w/ optional silencer 1999
Joint Operations: Typhoon Rising 2004
Global Operations 2002


Special Weapons MP-10 and SP-10

Special Weapons MP-10 9x19mm
Special Weapons SP-10 9x19mm with Truglo red dot sight

Films

Actor Character Title Note Date
U.S. Army Ranger I Am Legend With M68 Aimpoint red dot scope 2007
Two C.I.A. Agents Salt MP10 - Fitted with stocks 2010

Video Games

Game Title Appears as Mods Notation Release Date
Grand Theft Auto IV SW MP-10 2008
F.E.A.R Sumak RPL w/ holographic sight & retractable buttstock 2006


Heckler & Koch SMG

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Heckler & Koch SMG-2 9x19mm

The Heckler & Koch SMG programme was for improving the MP5 but like the Heckler & Koch G11 it failed.

Video Games

Game Title Referred as Mods Notation Release Date
Project IGI 2: Covert Strike SMG 2 w/ suppressor SMG II version 2003


German Sport Guns GSG5 Semi Auto Carbine

German Sport Guns GSG5 semi auto carbine with fake suppressor - 22.LR. This model as the 10 round magazine for states that restrict high capacity magazines. The factory magazines in fact, hold twenty four rounds of .22 long rifle.

German Sport Guns began importing the GSG5 Sporting Carbine into the U.S. in 2007. It is not a Heckler & Koch firearm, but is a .22 LR clone of the MP5. What makes it unique is that many parts are interchangeable with Airsoft MP5 parts, so many gun enthusiasts are putting on telescoping stocks, fake suppressors, tactical flash lights fore ends and rails on these .22 Carbines and pistols.

Television

  • Seen used by a former S.A.S. commando in the video game challenge against Jason Bradbury in The Gadget Show (UK)

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