Thanks for watching guys, here's the accompanying article for this special video - armourersbench.com/2024/12/31/hk-g11-disassembly-how-it-works/. Happy new year - Matt
You're one lucky dude! Back during my infantry weapons maintanance training in bavaria we had one of those behind glass in the hallway but they didn't even let us touch it 😢
@@vsvnrg3263 they weren't mass-produced, the school treated is like a museum-piece by the time i went there in 2001. Imagine ~20 fresh future weapon mechanics every 3 months getting their hands on this technological marvel.... it wouldn't last very long. On the other hand the G36 was pretty new and exiting enough.
When I first saw this rifle as a kid I was so overjoyed. It was so cool and futuristic. 30 years later and being an engineer I could see that for me this rifle is epitome of everything what firearm should not be. Too heavy, too cumbersome, too big a recoil for such heavy rifle and too complex for average soldier to maintain.
I'll give HK credit for thinking outside the box on the G11 design. It was an entirely new way of approaching small arms manufacturing. Not a good way, but a new way.
I imagine that if this weapon actually saw long term use, many redesigns and simplifications would be done. One of them would be the removal of the burst mechanism and all the things needed for that hyperburst mode to function. Possibly even removing the recoil buffer system as it's only purpose is to make that mode controllable. I'm still hoping that some madman out there with the right tools and certs just does a "for the kicks" run of new G11 ammo just for there to be new footage of it. The newest I think is from a decade ago from what I believe was a Japanese program for all kinds of weapons?
I'm guessing the added weight of the projectiles adds to the recoil. So three times the mas or, roughly the same recoil as a .30 caliber recoil. Just guessing.
It's because in the late 80's when electronic music became a thing it was cool to sample military radio messages from movies and documentaries. Now when you hear one you associated it with the other.
Amazing! 3:36 shows just how complex it it. I always thought the proposed LMG variant the (300 round!) magazine in the butt was a better design than the unwieldy long magazine of the G11.
VBR rifle is also cool, pretty much simplified G11 with double stack 120 round mag that uses cylindrical caseless ammo and normal 5.56 bullet. @@matthayward7889
@@AutieTortie Caseless ammo is likely to make a comeback some day. Then HK can perfect an old classic. Or we might see another VBR, competing with the G11.
I only can imagine what a 18y old grunt will do with the G11 after fieldstripping and trying to find a error/problem. ..... The armor Sgt. must have daily a heart attack 😅
i remember seeing somewhere that the idea of the g11 came about during the period of the cold war where it was pretty much accepted that a frontline west german soldier would have a tiny lifespan and probably die before they'd ever need to repair this thing, their job was just to put bodies in front of the advancing soviets until reinforcements arrived. that helps explain why this was even considered seriously, because it was the result of a very depressing calculus that command made that one soldier needed to make as much of an impact as possible in the tiny amount of time they were expected to be able to
@@planetfixer let's also not forget that mechanical watches were still extremely common back then, factories could just poach watchmakers to assemble these in bulk when all that's needed to be fully hardened were the barrel and chamber along with springs and the rest would be sintered or stamped steel. Everyone would've treated this like a truly fielded Stg.44 in that it's a miracle that a soldier lived long enough with this to see breakages, but "here's a new rifle, good luck..." With little fanfare
Now the Krauts had to have known the mechanism inside of a G11 would've gained sentience, taken one look at any grunt and decided, it wanted nothing to deal with what he was gonna subject it to
@@lazynpsychotic I have a hunch it would be supplied the same way as the Leo2, with fiddly components that's finicky to clean or service would be replaced with a working one as a single module and the malfunctioning one sent back to depot armorers.
@@lazynpsychoticIt wouldn't. Grunts were supposed to fire special cleaning rounds in the field, disassembly would only be done under much cleaner circumstances, there even was a plan to not allow grunts to disassemble them at all but swap dirty weapons for new ones and send them back for Depot maintenance
@@lazynpsychotic , harden up! just remember to bring a clean mat to perform the surgery on. and dont kick sand onto the mat when disassembling. and everything will be fine.
@@SonsOfLorgar That's exactly how H&K intended it. By the way, the thing that killed this rifle was not that it was costly or complicated. The German military had already made the decision that it was fine and started the adoption process - but then reunification happened, which turned out to be so expensive due to how run-down East Germany was (more expensive than previously thought, because the East German government had been falsifying economic figures for decades, both for propaganda reasons and in order to receive many billions in West-German loans) that there was no money left for a magic space rifle. It was government auditors who ended this expensive project. Not to mention, with the Cold War officially over, there was no need for it either.
The more I see of the G11, the less complicated it appears to me. Contrary to popular opinion, I think the G11 could easily have been wielded by grunts/infantry. Through standard training and familiarization with the weapon, grunts could easily learn to field strip and maintain the rifle. Sure, something could go wrong with it, which a grunt couldn't fix, but the same could be said for literally any rifle. The biggest problems this gun had, was probably its price to produce and the caseless ammo not being fully mature. Although, I have never really seen evidence that ammo doesn't hold up, but it never really got the chance to prove itself much either.
Wow I had no idea it was that complex to field strip. Not that I ever gave the G11 a real thought before. That's so bad compared to every other option in the world. No wonder it was never
The biggest thing was the cold war ended, Germany reunited and now there were a few hundred thousand soldiers to equip with rifles, so the rifle had to be dropped
Please to the Barrett 50. Cal 82A1 next! Field strip and range demonstration maybe? Another recoil operated rifle with a hell of a lot more real time use. 😅
9:21 People claim the G11 is complicated but to my eyes it actually looks very simple to manufacture. The action is mostly made from layers of stamped steel components just pinned together. Its very very similar to a high security lever lock pack from a door in the way its manufactured. Its genuinely quicker and cheaper to make than anything that requires machining or forging. If it ever broke I assume they could just drop in a new action.
Yeah but one crack in those parts and you'll need a mechanical engineering degree to fix it, not to mention the sheer amount of spare parts that would put ridiculous strain on logistics
@@Penigale The idea was that armorers would only swap out the entire action as a whole. Any repairs and maintenance on it would be done by H&K themselves.
@@zoiders Yes, and with a AR style platform you can drop in a new bolt carrier or upper.... it's still not cheap. You're talking about typically the 1st or 2nd most expensive component of a firearm, outside of consumables. I mean the military does do that, but saying that fixing a tank is not expensive because you can swap the powerpack when there is damage...is the same thing. It isn't cheap. It's a fast repair.
@@SlavicCeleryThis isnt an AR platform. You failed to understand what I said. You think this action is expensive. It's not. That's because you don't understand manufacturing.
This thing is/was a marvel of engineering and machining. It’s seems awfully complex for frontline troops and may have been an armourers nightmare but I wish it would have been issued by Germany. It could have been fascinating to see the G11 go through the maturation process of a military issued weapon system. Caseless ammunition and a near instantaneous 3 round burst were so innovative. The capacity was also a real advantage. This weapon and the British EM2 are my biggest small arms “should have been.”
It's a failure and there's a reason no one ever adopted it or any of the concepts at play in it. It's extremely expensive (firearm and ammo), a logistical nightmare (firearm and ammo), and 8lb for an assault rifle is well into "unacceptable". It's cool like clockwork/watches which are purposefully complicated are cool. As a firearm, it sucks.
Mag's gotta follow the mechanism, only way for it to feed and fire while the whole assembly is moving rearward. AN94 designers got around that by having a "shuttle" provide an intermediate feed position, but that only allows for two round burst.
The HK G11 weapon was designed for a nuclear battlefield: all the ammo is on the gun, it had flat surfaces you could hose down with Decon90 and you are unlikely to live long enough to need to clean or lubricate it.
I always found the G11 blocky, awkward and uncomfortable looking to hold and shoot. The design makes a lot more sense now taking that into account. Reminds me a lot of the G43 rifles from WW2 that were over-gassed to ensure functionality, not longevity. Kinda makes me wonder in an alternate timeline where these things were adopted how much would have been changed from the prototype stage. Had a civilian version somehow been miraculously produced what kind of aftermarket parts would be made for it.
Did you by any change find any info on the LMG11 or the PDW? I just love all the Cold War prototypes, the G11, project SALVO, the ACR program and all the Soviet weird designs. I do find hilarious next to that craziness one has the U.K. spending more than a decade to make a bad AR-18.
I remember when I first saw this thing dissasembled. I thought to myself, you are kidding me right H&K? There is no chance in hell this thing is going to be adopted as a main line rifle. It is far to complex. Despite the complexity, it seems the thing is actually reliable. Just looking at the design I would say no way, this thing is going to jam all the time, but H&K has a lot of demenstrations of it working well. It even does all the things it says it does. The recoil delay system actually works.
Theoretically this can be an incredibly economic firearm, with the barrel and chamber being the only parts required to be hardened enough to handle high pressures the rest can be stamped or sintered metals, the idea being if nuclear war were declared the G11 could be disposable and if you've fired it enough that parts start breaking youd be treated like a soldier that got the STG.44 that had to return to armory for parts/repairs: "ok, congratulations soldier we didnt expect you to keep this long enough to fire until breaking, here's a new rifle, and good luck out there."
That's a bit easier with smaller pistol-caliber rounds. Not to mention, the ZB-47 failed trials and was never adopted, whereas this rifle successfully completed and was adopted - until reunification got in the way.
Same problem as the AN-94, a one trick dog forced to do more than one, the mechanism is not that complex if it was made for single and full auto, the burst mode overcomplicated it all, the AN-94 is the opposite, if it was only burst it would be simpler.
Very complex by the standards of a small arm but not much more complex than something like a VHS player. Soldiers trust their lives with drones, radios, laptops and all sorts of other equipment that's highly complicated to build and based on principles that are very difficult to get your head around, but simple to use. If you look at the G11 like that I think it had potential, though the hyperburst feature is highly dubious, I don't think the complexity of the system was really a big drawback so long as it was reliable.
What a complete and uder dead end of firearms engineering. A Swiss watchmaker would probably take one look at this 80’s cole fueled nightmare and say “bro chill that’s way over complicated.”
Thanks for watching guys, here's the accompanying article for this special video - armourersbench.com/2024/12/31/hk-g11-disassembly-how-it-works/.
Happy new year - Matt
You're one lucky dude! Back during my infantry weapons maintanance training in bavaria we had one of those behind glass in the hallway but they didn't even let us touch it 😢
a really practical weapon! behind glass!
@@vsvnrg3263 they weren't mass-produced, the school treated is like a museum-piece by the time i went there in 2001. Imagine ~20 fresh future weapon mechanics every 3 months getting their hands on this technological marvel.... it wouldn't last very long. On the other hand the G36 was pretty new and exiting enough.
@@vsvnrg3263it prob had a hammer hung next to it with a sign saying, 'In an emergency... DONT break glass, Better off just taking hammer' 😂😂😂
Jeez, I thought the AN-94 was complex, but this one tops it all!
It's german lol
When I first saw this rifle as a kid I was so overjoyed. It was so cool and futuristic. 30 years later and being an engineer I could see that for me this rifle is epitome of everything what firearm should not be. Too heavy, too cumbersome, too big a recoil for such heavy rifle and too complex for average soldier to maintain.
If the Dwemer ever made a rifle, it would be like this (but made of polymer dwarven metal)
For a small caliber rifle it sure seems to have excessively high recoil. It’s really cool to see the break down of this in detail.
It's a pretty long bullet, and with the added area of the propellant being square those bullets were booking it
You’re getting 3 rounds of recoil in one trigger pull.
it shoot 3rnd burst with 2000rpm.
I'll give HK credit for thinking outside the box on the G11 design. It was an entirely new way of approaching small arms manufacturing. Not a good way, but a new way.
kraut space magicks, best gift this year
I want to see a Swiss take on G11 - I bet they can make it even more complex. And also make it actually show time.
This video is actually better than Ian's, very well done
Glad you finally had the chance to get one!
Must have been an early Christmas present for you. Thanks for the video
Awesome intro!
Thank you, bit of fun for a special video!
I have seen excerpts from this promotional video before but never the entire thing, interesting.
Finally, I can service mine!
I imagine that if this weapon actually saw long term use, many redesigns and simplifications would be done. One of them would be the removal of the burst mechanism and all the things needed for that hyperburst mode to function. Possibly even removing the recoil buffer system as it's only purpose is to make that mode controllable.
I'm still hoping that some madman out there with the right tools and certs just does a "for the kicks" run of new G11 ammo just for there to be new footage of it. The newest I think is from a decade ago from what I believe was a Japanese program for all kinds of weapons?
In the 90s demo video it was shown as scopes are easily replaceable. But in disassembly video scope seems to be an integral part of the receiver?
Krazy piece of kit. Seemed a good way to go then, especially with bullpups being the new hotness at the time.
It may "delay the recoil" but it looks like it has a significant amount of recoil the way it jumps every time our 80's soldier squeezes the trigger.
Every round has left the barrel before any of that recoil makes it back to the firer.
All rounds have left the barrel before the recoil kicks in
But on the other hand, 3 rounds worth of recoil is acting on your shoulder
I'm guessing the added weight of the projectiles adds to the recoil. So three times the mas or, roughly the same recoil as a .30 caliber recoil. Just guessing.
80's soldier only weighed 160-190lbs not 250 plus and could run carrying something. Newtonian physics my friend.
Recoil is insane 😮
I can only imagine, as the seal on the chamber wears out, how much that whole clockwork action would get caked with carbon.
How did you get your hands on one?
0:05 Why does every vintage weapons ad sound like it was recorded at a rave?
It's because in the late 80's when electronic music became a thing it was cool to sample military radio messages from movies and documentaries. Now when you hear one you associated it with the other.
Amazing! 3:36 shows just how complex it it.
I always thought the proposed LMG variant the (300 round!) magazine in the butt was a better design than the unwieldy long magazine of the G11.
adverts sound like adverts...
VBR rifle is also cool, pretty much simplified G11 with double stack 120 round mag that uses cylindrical caseless ammo and normal 5.56 bullet. @@matthayward7889
Someday. Someday we'll have something this cool again.
Why?
@@AutieTortie Caseless ammo is likely to make a comeback some day. Then HK can perfect an old classic.
Or we might see another VBR, competing with the G11.
Wow. An amazing piece of engineering.
The G11 is such a hate it or love it design. Im in the love it camp
All the training videos sounded just like that when I joined the Army.
I only can imagine what a 18y old grunt will do with the G11 after fieldstripping and trying to find a error/problem. ..... The armor Sgt. must have daily a heart attack 😅
i remember seeing somewhere that the idea of the g11 came about during the period of the cold war where it was pretty much accepted that a frontline west german soldier would have a tiny lifespan and probably die before they'd ever need to repair this thing, their job was just to put bodies in front of the advancing soviets until reinforcements arrived. that helps explain why this was even considered seriously, because it was the result of a very depressing calculus that command made that one soldier needed to make as much of an impact as possible in the tiny amount of time they were expected to be able to
@@planetfixer Not only considered but going through the whole assessment process successfully, but luckily later over taken by other designs.
@@planetfixer let's also not forget that mechanical watches were still extremely common back then, factories could just poach watchmakers to assemble these in bulk when all that's needed to be fully hardened were the barrel and chamber along with springs and the rest would be sintered or stamped steel. Everyone would've treated this like a truly fielded Stg.44 in that it's a miracle that a soldier lived long enough with this to see breakages, but "here's a new rifle, good luck..." With little fanfare
What a unicorn, it would be great to track down them 2 soldiers in the demo, and get an interview with them.
They made a watch in which bullets were fired :D
Sounds awesome firing 🖖
oo the piston moves back and pushes like a conrod cranking the action over
Reminds me of a watch 😂 mechanism. Thank you.
this is soo cool!!, you are so lucky!!
German space magic.
Excellent
The Jackal is probably watching this with great interest
So are we gonna get some footage of the G11 at the range?
LOL
LMAO even
Now the Krauts had to have known the mechanism inside of a G11 would've gained sentience, taken one look at any grunt and decided, it wanted nothing to deal with what he was gonna subject it to
LMAO Can you imagine disassembling this thing in a trench or inside a cramped armoured vehicle?
@@lazynpsychotic I have a hunch it would be supplied the same way as the Leo2, with fiddly components that's finicky to clean or service would be replaced with a working one as a single module and the malfunctioning one sent back to depot armorers.
@@lazynpsychoticIt wouldn't. Grunts were supposed to fire special cleaning rounds in the field, disassembly would only be done under much cleaner circumstances, there even was a plan to not allow grunts to disassemble them at all but swap dirty weapons for new ones and send them back for Depot maintenance
@@lazynpsychotic , harden up! just remember to bring a clean mat to perform the surgery on. and dont kick sand onto the mat when disassembling. and everything will be fine.
@@SonsOfLorgar That's exactly how H&K intended it.
By the way, the thing that killed this rifle was not that it was costly or complicated. The German military had already made the decision that it was fine and started the adoption process - but then reunification happened, which turned out to be so expensive due to how run-down East Germany was (more expensive than previously thought, because the East German government had been falsifying economic figures for decades, both for propaganda reasons and in order to receive many billions in West-German loans) that there was no money left for a magic space rifle. It was government auditors who ended this expensive project. Not to mention, with the Cold War officially over, there was no need for it either.
The more I see of the G11, the less complicated it appears to me. Contrary to popular opinion, I think the G11 could easily have been wielded by grunts/infantry. Through standard training and familiarization with the weapon, grunts could easily learn to field strip and maintain the rifle.
Sure, something could go wrong with it, which a grunt couldn't fix, but the same could be said for literally any rifle.
The biggest problems this gun had, was probably its price to produce and the caseless ammo not being fully mature.
Although, I have never really seen evidence that ammo doesn't hold up, but it never really got the chance to prove itself much either.
1st for the german space magic!
The big plastic latch that holds the front handguard onto the G11 looks a lot like the P90s disassembly latch.
I wish camera quality was better but tnx anyway for disassembling this holy grail. Model of G11 will soon come to World of Guns! Cant wait for that.
Wow I had no idea it was that complex to field strip. Not that I ever gave the G11 a real thought before. That's so bad compared to every other option in the world. No wonder it was never
The biggest thing was the cold war ended, Germany reunited and now there were a few hundred thousand soldiers to equip with rifles, so the rifle had to be dropped
Please to the Barrett 50. Cal 82A1 next! Field strip and range demonstration maybe? Another recoil operated rifle with a hell of a lot more real time use. 😅
Still got no idea how it works
9:21 People claim the G11 is complicated but to my eyes it actually looks very simple to manufacture. The action is mostly made from layers of stamped steel components just pinned together. Its very very similar to a high security lever lock pack from a door in the way its manufactured. Its genuinely quicker and cheaper to make than anything that requires machining or forging. If it ever broke I assume they could just drop in a new action.
Yeah but one crack in those parts and you'll need a mechanical engineering degree to fix it, not to mention the sheer amount of spare parts that would put ridiculous strain on logistics
@@Penigale The idea was that armorers would only swap out the entire action as a whole. Any repairs and maintenance on it would be done by H&K themselves.
@@PenigaleIt's not an expensive component. If it breaks you simply drop in a new action. Did you read or understand what I said?
@@zoiders Yes, and with a AR style platform you can drop in a new bolt carrier or upper.... it's still not cheap. You're talking about typically the 1st or 2nd most expensive component of a firearm, outside of consumables.
I mean the military does do that, but saying that fixing a tank is not expensive because you can swap the powerpack when there is damage...is the same thing. It isn't cheap. It's a fast repair.
@@SlavicCeleryThis isnt an AR platform. You failed to understand what I said. You think this action is expensive. It's not. That's because you don't understand manufacturing.
I wonder how does the slow cam could record the firing
Funny, WOGs has been working on a model of the G11. Very convenient timing.
I'm waiting to see Zach in the comment's.
This thing is/was a marvel of engineering and machining. It’s seems awfully complex for frontline troops and may have been an armourers nightmare but I wish it would have been issued by Germany. It could have been fascinating to see the G11 go through the maturation process of a military issued weapon system. Caseless ammunition and a near instantaneous 3 round burst were so innovative. The capacity was also a real advantage. This weapon and the British EM2 are my biggest small arms “should have been.”
It's a failure and there's a reason no one ever adopted it or any of the concepts at play in it. It's extremely expensive (firearm and ammo), a logistical nightmare (firearm and ammo), and 8lb for an assault rifle is well into "unacceptable". It's cool like clockwork/watches which are purposefully complicated are cool. As a firearm, it sucks.
Wonder what kind of ballistic performance that the caseless ammo provided
There must be reports on it somewhere. Need to dig them up
Recoiling magazine looked counterproductive to recoil mitigation. Heavier recoil when empty or full?
Mag's gotta follow the mechanism, only way for it to feed and fire while the whole assembly is moving rearward. AN94 designers got around that by having a "shuttle" provide an intermediate feed position, but that only allows for two round burst.
Will you post a link to the intro video
Them Krauts have been hittin' some heavy shite while designing this. :D
Maybe in some alternate dimension/timeline these were allowed to see service & available on the US market in semi auto config of course....
omg so cool 😁🙌
Forgotten Bench's
Did they ever come up with webbing for the rifle, or was it just 3 mags and some stripper clips?
The HK G11 weapon was designed for a nuclear battlefield: all the ammo is on the gun, it had flat surfaces you could hose down with Decon90 and you are unlikely to live long enough to need to clean or lubricate it.
There was a cleaning round designed, only to be used in combat of course.
CBRN environment actually makes a lot of sense, keep everything sealed tight until it needs to be used.
I always found the G11 blocky, awkward and uncomfortable looking to hold and shoot. The design makes a lot more sense now taking that into account. Reminds me a lot of the G43 rifles from WW2 that were over-gassed to ensure functionality, not longevity.
Kinda makes me wonder in an alternate timeline where these things were adopted how much would have been changed from the prototype stage. Had a civilian version somehow been miraculously produced what kind of aftermarket parts would be made for it.
Did you by any change find any info on the LMG11 or the PDW?
I just love all the Cold War prototypes, the G11, project SALVO, the ACR program and all the Soviet weird designs. I do find hilarious next to that craziness one has the U.K. spending more than a decade to make a bad AR-18.
I wish, those two are holy grails, I suspect HK themselves have the best available info on those. Id really like to see a CAWS shotgun too.
The internal mechanism looks like a cool steampunk bundle skin
That recoil is insane 😂
How exactly is sealing achieved?
Yes
How do magnets work? They just work!
Same way as in all over revolving chamber designs.
@@badgermcbadger1968 how do magnets work? Miracles.
Kraut space magic
I want an airsoft version real bad
I remember when I first saw this thing dissasembled. I thought to myself, you are kidding me right H&K? There is no chance in hell this thing is going to be adopted as a main line rifle. It is far to complex.
Despite the complexity, it seems the thing is actually reliable. Just looking at the design I would say no way, this thing is going to jam all the time, but H&K has a lot of demenstrations of it working well. It even does all the things it says it does. The recoil delay system actually works.
AR for the win
Kraut space magic! Lucky bigger!
To był dla mnie zawsze szczyt techniki strzeleckiej i symbol nowoczesności😁 Pytanie: jak przenosić większą ilośc tak długich magazynków?
Można sobie wyobrazić rodzaj kołczanu na plecy po obu bokach?
@agzaimbartholomei3697 😁😁😁
With all the gears in this firearm, "steam punk" would be very appropriate way to describe the action.
Theoretically this can be an incredibly economic firearm, with the barrel and chamber being the only parts required to be hardened enough to handle high pressures the rest can be stamped or sintered metals, the idea being if nuclear war were declared the G11 could be disposable and if you've fired it enough that parts start breaking youd be treated like a soldier that got the STG.44 that had to return to armory for parts/repairs: "ok, congratulations soldier we didnt expect you to keep this long enough to fire until breaking, here's a new rifle, and good luck out there."
This isnt the Defence Academy at Shrivenham is it?
If only HK can release a semi auto version of this on the civilian market.
A G11 without its iconic three-round burst seems a bit counterproductive, I think.
👏👏👏
Heckler & Koch... Are they watch makers?
The thing looks like a handful in three round burst
HK G11 mud test ??
It is funny how such advanced mechanism has plastic covers like recycled plastic.
It's the first "green" assault rifle. Made from recycled materials and it leaves no casings behind. 😮
Oh, look, german mechanical unicorn.
it reminds me mix of gun and mechanical programmer from old washing machine.
i think the shooter does alright 300m unsupported prone with tht scope nd cailber
Yeah, I think the size of the charge is smaller than the target too complicating things.
Cal.4.73x33 mm
scope?
If the bullet doesnt get them, the recoil will get you
Ooo moving up in the TH-cam world I see. Lol
HK reinventing Zinger sewing machine to shoot bullets 😂😂😂
Rocket Surgery, German style. A design exercise in the ridiculous.
Gee, I wonder why this didn't....
Take off?
*YEEAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH*
Interior looks more like watch then a gun
😮😮😮😮😮German space magic😂😂😂😂😂😂❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Imagine handing this to a marine...
Meanwhile the zb-47 is able to get a bullet to turn 90 degrees with a simple racheting toothed sprocket
That's a bit easier with smaller pistol-caliber rounds. Not to mention, the ZB-47 failed trials and was never adopted, whereas this rifle successfully completed and was adopted - until reunification got in the way.
That only feeds 90 ⁰ the G11 is a whole other ball game.
Its sawing machine is all.
We've heard about the dangerous black rifles, but how about black Tupperwares
So, G11 was never actually used in combat or even police operations?
Same problem as the AN-94, a one trick dog forced to do more than one, the mechanism is not that complex if it was made for single and full auto, the burst mode overcomplicated it all, the AN-94 is the opposite, if it was only burst it would be simpler.
Very complex by the standards of a small arm but not much more complex than something like a VHS player. Soldiers trust their lives with drones, radios, laptops and all sorts of other equipment that's highly complicated to build and based on principles that are very difficult to get your head around, but simple to use. If you look at the G11 like that I think it had potential, though the hyperburst feature is highly dubious, I don't think the complexity of the system was really a big drawback so long as it was reliable.
Kraut Space Magic, I'm jealous! But in actuality these things suck. Ian said the chamber only lasts for 3,500 rounds, that's unsat
What a complete and uder dead end of firearms engineering. A Swiss watchmaker would probably take one look at this 80’s cole fueled nightmare and say “bro chill that’s way over complicated.”
How funny that the US English promo guy refused to pronounce "Koch" properly 😂