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| Notsignalgerät.
(Note-tsigNALger-ate) The literal German translation is 'Distress
Signal Tool.' It is marketed abroad as the Emergency Flare Launcher
or EFL. With a five shot magazine, the EFL is a handy little flare
launcher, quite collectible in the U.S. but like the P2A1, flares are hard
to find, and HK does not sell them in the United States. The 19mm flares reach a
height of 65 meters or about 213 feet. The literature advises that
the German Bundeswehr uses it.
Again, Helmut Welde of HK and
Fa. Feistel (German abbreviation for firm) are the designers of the EFL, and conceived
of it in 1975. |
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| First prototype of the EFL, called the NG19 for Notsignalgerät 19 (see translation above.) 19 stands for the caliber of the flares. visible on the right photo is the name of co-designer Feistel engraved on the side. |
