. . . "XM8"@en . "0.8382"^^ . "3402.0"^^ . . . . . "The XM8 was the U.S. military designation for a lightweight assault rifle system under development by the United States Army from the late 1990s to early 2000s. The rifle was designed by German small arms manufacturer Heckler & Koch (H&K), and shares design and engineering with their G36 rifle.The XM8 design was originally part of the Objective Individual Combat Weapon program (OICW), which was developing a \"smart\" grenade launcher system with an underslung carbine rifle as a backup weapon."@en . . . . .