HK21

The HK21 in real life, with an attached scope.

The HK21 is a general purpose machine gun made by German firearms company, Heckler & Koch. It, like many of H&K's weapons, is based on the successful G3 assault rifle. It is chambered in the 7.62x51mm NATO round is fed from a variety of disintergating belt ammunition.

It can be modified to accept the G3's 20-round box magazine, or a 50-round drum magazine designed for the weapon.

Battlefield 2

HK21
Faction	EU
Kit	Support
Progression
Unlocked at	Unlocked at start
Handling
Firemodes	Fully Automatic
Rate of fire	600 rpm
Ammunition
Magazine	200 rounds
Reload	7.1 seconds
Effects
Damage	33
Range and Recoil
Recoil	0.25-0.45 (hip) 0.5 (zoomed)

"The HK21 is a general purpose, belt fed, large machine gun. It fires a 7.62 NATO round with a fire rate of 800 rounds per minute. This weapon may be used in either single shot or full automatic firing modes."

— In-game description

The HK21 is a weapon featured in the Battlefield 2: Euro Force expansion as the standard light machine gun of the EU Support kit. It boasts a 200-round magazine, a moderate firerate, a low proned spread (although its standing and crouched spread are higher than others), as well as relatively high damage and a longer than average reload cycle.

The HK21 in Battlefield 2

The HK21's ironsights

Reloading the HK21

Trivia

• The in-game description erroneously states that the HK21 has an 800 round-per-minute firerate when in fact it has only a 600 round-per-minute firerate.