Now I know why H&K specifically instructed the german army not to open the rifle for maintenance, looking at that mechanism is like looking at a eldritch horror that the human mind cannot comprehend and would probably give the armorer a heart attack.
To clean it in the field you would have to put soap or detergent into the case, fill it with water, and shake it. I am not kidding. It says so in the instruction manual.
@@K__a__M__II don’t see this ever being maintained in the field and I doubt HK did either, apparently the MP7 is also difficult to maintain as well by the average person/soldier.
@@rain8767 IIRC the guns were supposed to ne issued with an extra action that could be swap out by an armorer and the malfunctioning action would be sent to the rear for repairs.
The rotational manifold is catastrophically spring-loaded, and if you attempt to manipulate that flange in any manner whatsoever, it will uncoil at 25,000 RPM, launching the entire sub-assembly into the center of the operator's chest cavity. Accident investigation disclosed a two-kilometer catapulting incident, where the largest surviving fragment of the unfortunate soldier landed in Scotland.
@@WasLostButNowAmFound You would hope the _watch_ is _less_ complicated? The G11 is far too complicated to be effective. They did get it fairly reliable, but it had issues that failures could cause serious damage to the rifle.
I've seen inside a sewing machine, and the integrals remind me of that. Industrial sewing machines hammer away all day, every day, so "looking like a sewing machine" isn't an indicator of unreliability. On the other hand, they aren't powered by explosions ...
Burglar's perspective at night: Shotgun getting racked: *wets themselves while sprinting back to the broken window that they came in from* This gun getting wound up: "The fuck is that sound? Is someone trying and failing at opening their bedroom door? Hopefully the front door doesn't have an alarm. It'd be hard to get this big TV out the window that I came in from."
Imo the #1 candidate for "menacing firearm action sound" is the "HK slap" done on a G3/HK91. There's nothing scarier than a 308 battle rifle, so the FAL, SCAR-17, AR-10, and any other magazine-fed 308 rifle are all menacing, but nothing beats the G3 because of the charging method/sound it makes. Pump shotgun is #2 for me.
@@SterileNeutrino Yup, to say nothing of the ammo corroding *itself* to powder, disintegrating due to moisture, and having a very short (as ammunition goes) shelf life. The gun? I have no opinion on it one way or the other. The ammo? An absolute logistical nightmare. It's like something an enemy would 'suggest' to their foe in order to get them to spend tons of money and manhours in labor to sort out. Them: "Oh, yes, we're working on caseless ammunition, you'll be sorry if you don't do it too." Also Them: Not actually working on caseless ammo. Also Also Them: "Look! Lookit them actually doing it? AHAHAHAHA!"
@@SoulSoundMuiscCrazy to think about how surplus ammo can fire fine after sitting in crates for decades and decades, then comparing it to how caseless rounds would fare.
@@SterileNeutrinothe problem with caseless ammo is that it self ignites when the barrel gets hot enough. After putting the first round in the chamber the gun goes full auto even when single fire mode is selected. 😂
Everyone talks bad about the over-engineering of the G11, but if you sit down, look at the documentation, and understand how the G11 cycles, you will be blown away by how ingenious this mechanism is. Constant pressure against the caseless ammunition, with a 20mm slide back then into the chamber on each cycle that keeps the caseless ammo from falling apart and deforming when cycling into the chamber at high speed. This isn't a clock masquerading as a gun, it's a gun designed and built around the strict specifications of the caseless ammo that existed at the time.
I can comprehend and kind of picture how this would work in my head, but the same thing cannot be said about the AN-94. That thing is even more complex than the G-11.
@@jsivonenVR It never had any issues during years of extensive testing. Laymen are just dreaming up problems because they cannot comprehend how something like that could work.
Exactly. The "over-engineering" thing has become such a dumb trope and meme in the military tech nerd community, if you can call it that. For something to be "over-engineered" you'd first have to show that you can design a mechanism that does the same thing but is less complicated and that is where the story always ends because none of the people who claim to be able to judge whether something is over-engineered ever come anywhere near having the qualification or the ability to do that. This isn't over-engineered and according to what you hear about the tests and trials, it was very reliable. In the end the criticism is just the same caveman thinking that made Boomers think 9mm is a puny, useless caliber because it is smaller than .45.
The new Robocop video game has this, with a very interesting reload animation where he just rotates his whole forearm just after the elbow in order to cock the weapon.
Me looking at that firing mode selector from right to left: Ah yes, 1 round, 3 round burst, -45 round burst which just sucks rounds into the gun from around you like a black hole
Actually if I recall correctly it's because the initial designs of this had 45 round mags, so the selector is basically 1 round, 3 round, all the rounds.
Right! I was looking for someone to mention that. And then the burst fire has a faster rpm than the full auto is weird to me too. Now I feel the need to look at all guns rpms
First game I saw it in was I think James Bond Nightfire. The last mission has a bunch of enemies who wield it but I guess the developers had NO idea how the reload process worked so the gun would just dip down off screen when you reloaded. Other guns in the game actually showed you reloading it though
it's not as delicate as clockwork. this gun was MORE reliable than the competition at the time it was competing for, which was embassy protection and other sorts of 'domestic protection' focused roles
@@sargera1 The amazing part about Kalthoff one is that it's not a wheel but a flint lock. Yet they still managed to make it a repeating firearm with 30 rounds. A technical marvel, considering the tooling of the time.
The G11: When cubism hits the firearms industry. I would have loved to see Germany adopt this thing en mass just to see what kind of wacky problems it would have. I suspect it would end up being much like bullpups, where the theory is great but the application just falls on it's feet.
For starters I'd think ammo resupply problems, since caseless wasn't exactly a universal NATO caliber like 9mm or .223. With a mechanism that complex, I think it's also safe to say that any breakages would be excessive for a combat firearm, as well as overly difficult, expensive, and/or time consuming to repair, and likely not very field repairable, further adding to the time, difficulty, and expense of repairs already overly so. I think at best it'd linger on like the Space Shuttle program - a good idea to fix a problem that looked cool, but ultimately didn't prove any better than the alternatives.
Well yeah but that's the entire reason the rifle was designed and caseless ammunition was being used. All for that burst hit probability. Drop that and the thing has no reason to exist at all. Not unlike the AN-94, although they didn't adopt an entire new type of ammo for that.
@@RongleBringer The caseless ammunition provided incredible advantages in ammo weight. Even without the hyperburst it would have been a revolutionary rifle.
@@oddspaghetti4287 yeah but absent more advantages no military outside of maybe the US is going to switch to a mechanically completely different kind of small arms ammo purely on basis of weight. Way too much legacy stuff to replace and interoperability issues. You need something additional like the hyperburst to point to as a game changer in order to convince leadership. Ammo and gun were a package deal here.
When I was a kid , I was reading about this rifle in our Army's monthly paper. It seemed as something so cool and modern. 30 years later, being an engineer and hunter, this rifle fills me with utter revulsion. It being epitome of everything that service rifle should not be.
The most german looking receiver I've ever seen. "Ze knob here, pushes ze rod here that turns ze block here to pull ze receiver, then ze dinge here geht hier und zwo..." AARRRRGHH MY EYES
I have a whole booklet from HK about this rifle, in my seargents course 1985 I held prototype No. 15 in my hands! I just recently visited a german Army collection and saw 7 versions of that rifle the last one looked pretty awesome. If you take a system weight of 7,35 Kg you can have a G3 rifle with 120 rounds, a M16 with about 300 rounds and a G11 with 600 rounds +! I still do not believe that this project was cancelled because of storage problems with the caseless ammo! I think that some "allied" power infested a strong veto regarding the introduction. Thios gun would have changed a lot for 50 + years!!!
When I was doing compulsory military service, we were using the G3. But there was a lot of talk about the replacement. And the main rumour was that it would be replaced with the G11. However, that didn't happen.
@@Tjalve70 ah ok. We had it until about 1996 "( called model 76 because that was the year we got it ) then we got a Canadian built riffle similar to the M16.
If the rate of fire used for the 3 round burst was applied to the full auto, it would be 1200 rounds per minute. Because it's in bursts, the pause between each trigger pull keeps it from overheating and warping. Keeping it down to 600 rounds does the same, especially since the largest drums were 600 rounds, you weren't going to be shooting solid for more than a minute, giving it time to cool down .
The mechanism is designed in a way, that in three round burst the Gun fires all three rounds so fast that all bullets leave the barrel before the recoil traveled to the rear and effects the shooter. In full auto it is like standard full auto where one bullet is shot, recoil hits, next round is loaded in the chamber and so on. So 3 rounds at theoretical 2000rpm if the mechanism would allow that and full auto with standard chugging away at 600
One of the rare times Ryan Cawdor almost showed weakness is when he almost shed a tear over haven to leave this baby behind when he couldn't find any more ammo for it in The Deathlands.
Wait a minute, is this thing technically a self loading fully automatic revolver? It’s got a revolving cylinder with chambers in it that the cartridges fire in, just like a revolver…
A self loading fully automatic revolver would be gatling type mechanisms. The axis the chamber rotates on in the G11 would make it more of a self loading automatic break action.
The revolving part pivots in 90° up and forward. The Magazin sits on top of the gun with the Rounds facing upwards. They get pulled down in the chamber, the chamber pivots 90° to align with the Barrel, then it fires and the Chamber pivots back up again. So no Revolver with multiple chambers. Only one chamber that changes directions
loved this concept I loved it in bo1 and used it with the magnifying sight / freefloat was ahead of its time over engineering to hell and back this and the XM9 would love to own/fire
Note that hyper burst kicks very hard compared to a normal round because your shoulder has absolutely no chance to do anything before three shots are fired.
I have read about them but not enough to give an opinion. I was and still am intrigued by that weapon, it does have surprising advantages but as a light infantrymen I can see a lot to argue against!
Way way waaaay ahead of its time!!!! Still even today. Caseless!!!!! The next evolutionary step in small arms: nothing short of Revolutionary, really ! 😁👍🇦🇺
Still an incredibly cool rifle from a bygone era; as interesting as the mechanism was, I was transfixed by the magazines being kept on top of the rifle, alongside the barrel.
Now I know why H&K specifically instructed the german army not to open the rifle for maintenance, looking at that mechanism is like looking at a eldritch horror that the human mind cannot comprehend and would probably give the armorer a heart attack.
To clean it in the field you would have to put soap or detergent into the case, fill it with water, and shake it. I am not kidding. It says so in the instruction manual.
@@K__a__M__II don’t see this ever being maintained in the field and I doubt HK did either, apparently the MP7 is also difficult to maintain as well by the average person/soldier.
@@rain8767 IIRC the guns were supposed to ne issued with an extra action that could be swap out by an armorer and the malfunctioning action would be sent to the rear for repairs.
I've seen more complicated... but not in mass produced military rifle.
The rotational manifold is catastrophically spring-loaded, and if you attempt to manipulate that flange in any manner whatsoever, it will uncoil at 25,000 RPM, launching the entire sub-assembly into the center of the operator's chest cavity. Accident investigation disclosed a two-kilometer catapulting incident, where the largest surviving fragment of the unfortunate soldier landed in Scotland.
The mechanism is just for show, it's actually powered by german space magic
*teutonic space magic
"That's what this is, you know? German space magic! Sick shit!"
-Paulie "Walnuts" Gualtieri
Kraut space magic*
They stopped manufacturing space magic in 1945 and the rifles were running off of surplus, which is by now all dried up
I can work with that.
I work on watches, and I tell you automatic chronographs are less complicated.
Quartz Watch?
@@ntr1381 No, like a Valjoux 7750 is less complicated than this thing.
@@Grayfox988
I would hope so. Failure in a service rifle can mean life or death.
@@WasLostButNowAmFound You would hope the _watch_ is _less_ complicated?
The G11 is far too complicated to be effective. They did get it fairly reliable, but it had issues that failures could cause serious damage to the rifle.
I've seen inside a sewing machine, and the integrals remind me of that. Industrial sewing machines hammer away all day, every day, so "looking like a sewing machine" isn't an indicator of unreliability. On the other hand, they aren't powered by explosions ...
... Or maintained in an active combat zone where dirt and mud want to get inside of everything, especially your rifle.
@@Elysium4 Just sweat shops on no budget.
This weapon was supposed designed or at least in part by HK's sewing machine department.
@@qrstwlmao
My nickname in my 20's was the
" Bareback Sewing Machine "
You have to admit turning that knob is one end of the “menacing firearm actions” spectrum, with racking a pump shotgun on the other.
I dunno with a Gatling style lever that could be a lot more intimidating
I am now reminding you of Futurama and the Doop rifle.
@@MrCantStopTheRobot That was exactly what came to mind.
Burglar's perspective at night:
Shotgun getting racked: *wets themselves while sprinting back to the broken window that they came in from*
This gun getting wound up: "The fuck is that sound? Is someone trying and failing at opening their bedroom door? Hopefully the front door doesn't have an alarm. It'd be hard to get this big TV out the window that I came in from."
Imo the #1 candidate for "menacing firearm action sound" is the "HK slap" done on a G3/HK91. There's nothing scarier than a 308 battle rifle, so the FAL, SCAR-17, AR-10, and any other magazine-fed 308 rifle are all menacing, but nothing beats the G3 because of the charging method/sound it makes. Pump shotgun is #2 for me.
The caseless ammunition was the real secret sauce in this awesome machine.
IIRC there was a problem with barrel erosion as the protection by brass was evidently nonexistent
@@SterileNeutrino Yup, to say nothing of the ammo corroding *itself* to powder, disintegrating due to moisture, and having a very short (as ammunition goes) shelf life. The gun? I have no opinion on it one way or the other. The ammo? An absolute logistical nightmare. It's like something an enemy would 'suggest' to their foe in order to get them to spend tons of money and manhours in labor to sort out.
Them: "Oh, yes, we're working on caseless ammunition, you'll be sorry if you don't do it too."
Also Them: Not actually working on caseless ammo.
Also Also Them: "Look! Lookit them actually doing it? AHAHAHAHA!"
@@SoulSoundMuiscCrazy to think about how surplus ammo can fire fine after sitting in crates for decades and decades, then comparing it to how caseless rounds would fare.
The brass also carries away a lot of heat
@@SterileNeutrinothe problem with caseless ammo is that it self ignites when the barrel gets hot enough. After putting the first round in the chamber the gun goes full auto even when single fire mode is selected. 😂
Everyone talks bad about the over-engineering of the G11, but if you sit down, look at the documentation, and understand how the G11 cycles, you will be blown away by how ingenious this mechanism is. Constant pressure against the caseless ammunition, with a 20mm slide back then into the chamber on each cycle that keeps the caseless ammo from falling apart and deforming when cycling into the chamber at high speed.
This isn't a clock masquerading as a gun, it's a gun designed and built around the strict specifications of the caseless ammo that existed at the time.
I can comprehend and kind of picture how this would work in my head, but the same thing cannot be said about the AN-94. That thing is even more complex than the G-11.
where do I find this documentation?
Any soldier in the trench, sitting in the dirt with this rifle will NOT be impressed 😬
@@jsivonenVR It never had any issues during years of extensive testing.
Laymen are just dreaming up problems because they cannot comprehend how something like that could work.
Exactly.
The "over-engineering" thing has become such a dumb trope and meme in the military tech nerd community, if you can call it that.
For something to be "over-engineered" you'd first have to show that you can design a mechanism that does the same thing but is less complicated and that is where the story always ends because none of the people who claim to be able to judge whether something is over-engineered ever come anywhere near having the qualification or the ability to do that.
This isn't over-engineered and according to what you hear about the tests and trials, it was very reliable.
In the end the criticism is just the same caveman thinking that made Boomers think 9mm is a puny, useless caliber because it is smaller than .45.
The new Robocop video game has this, with a very interesting reload animation where he just rotates his whole forearm just after the elbow in order to cock the weapon.
Omg
@@Compulsive_LARPerlike a Henry?
So the clockwork was like a quartz Henry vs a chronometer Henry?
It's pretty awesome
Sadly they couldn't figure out that only the case gets ejected, so some Robocop weaponry ejects full cartridges facing backwards. O.o
Me looking at that firing mode selector from right to left:
Ah yes, 1 round, 3 round burst, -45 round burst which just sucks rounds into the gun from around you like a black hole
Actually if I recall correctly it's because the initial designs of this had 45 round mags, so the selector is basically 1 round, 3 round, all the rounds.
@@Astraeus.. I know, it was a joke
"sucks rounds into the gun" - like that scene from Tenet.
🤣🤣🤣
Right! I was looking for someone to mention that. And then the burst fire has a faster rpm than the full auto is weird to me too. Now I feel the need to look at all guns rpms
You take your sidearm to the Armourer, and your rifle to the company clockmaker.
The internals look like a clock
Because they where made by clockmakers
@@Seelenschmiede and locomotive engineers apparently
It is. It just tells the time you die.
1st time I saw that, it was in the Syphon Filter games. The 2nd one,but it was called H11 then Omega Strain it became the C11.
I saw it in *IGI-2* 😊
First game I saw it in was I think James Bond Nightfire. The last mission has a bunch of enemies who wield it but I guess the developers had NO idea how the reload process worked so the gun would just dip down off screen when you reloaded. Other guns in the game actually showed you reloading it though
The X-ray gun
Also later on cod bo2 (milimeter wave)
@gameprojordan Agent Under Fire, actually. =)
I also use this gun in dark mirror
The firing mechanism looks just as delicate as clockwork, the g11 is truly one of the most interesting rifles in history.
it's not as delicate as clockwork. this gun was MORE reliable than the competition at the time it was competing for, which was embassy protection and other sorts of 'domestic protection' focused roles
I would have kept the Berlin wall for the G11 tbh
Fair trade tbh 🤔
Dirty eastern Germans. Clung to their socialism.
Made my
Day😂
I remember favoring this rifle in the original Black Ops. Always found the front loading stick magazine interesting.
it made a nice noise when firing as well.
From Wheellock to this, Germany engineering never cease to amuse me.😂
It's burst wheel lock like that repeater flintlock lol
@@sargera1 Yes, Kalthoff Repeater, G11 of 1650's (which, to its credit, worked, was adopted and used in combat successfully.)
@@stalhandske9649 does this have a relation with the repeat punt gun aside the wheel lock
@@sargera1 The amazing part about Kalthoff one is that it's not a wheel but a flint lock. Yet they still managed to make it a repeating firearm with 30 rounds. A technical marvel, considering the tooling of the time.
The G11: When cubism hits the firearms industry.
I would have loved to see Germany adopt this thing en mass just to see what kind of wacky problems it would have. I suspect it would end up being much like bullpups, where the theory is great but the application just falls on it's feet.
For starters I'd think ammo resupply problems, since caseless wasn't exactly a universal NATO caliber like 9mm or .223. With a mechanism that complex, I think it's also safe to say that any breakages would be excessive for a combat firearm, as well as overly difficult, expensive, and/or time consuming to repair, and likely not very field repairable, further adding to the time, difficulty, and expense of repairs already overly so. I think at best it'd linger on like the Space Shuttle program - a good idea to fix a problem that looked cool, but ultimately didn't prove any better than the alternatives.
Its biggest selling point was the hyperburst mode, which was all the rage in 80's, which is also the source of most complexity.
@@Finlandiaperkele So there you go. The hyperburst and thus its main selling point might have been the very first thing to go in later models.
@@Finlandiaperkele Not just the 80s, Project SALVO began in the 50s and the SPIW offshoots continued through the 80s.
Like communism.
Kraut space magic continues to defy my mere mortal comprehension
I’ll never forget the first time I saw this in Jane’s infantry weapons I was like what? When will this thing come out. Then I never saw it again. lol
Piston arm? Ooh, it's called an eccentric rod and crank Ian. I'm a steam guy studying to become a mechanic and eventually run em.
Thank you gun jesus
It was one of my fav weapons to use in DFLW.
This thing SHREDDED in CoD.
I was lookin for this comment lmao
@averydaley4094 bro the burst spawn kills on nuketown
.....
@@Twizzler300 went crazy haha
This is the comment I was looking for BO1 is S tear
“And in order to charge this, you-”
*clamps gun to table with foot*
“ROTATE IT”
Most of the added complexity is solely due to the hyperburst mode, it could've been much simpler without it.
Well yeah but that's the entire reason the rifle was designed and caseless ammunition was being used. All for that burst hit probability. Drop that and the thing has no reason to exist at all. Not unlike the AN-94, although they didn't adopt an entire new type of ammo for that.
@@RongleBringer The caseless ammunition provided incredible advantages in ammo weight. Even without the hyperburst it would have been a revolutionary rifle.
@@RongleBringer The biggest innovation by far was the ammunition.
@@oddspaghetti4287 yeah but absent more advantages no military outside of maybe the US is going to switch to a mechanically completely different kind of small arms ammo purely on basis of weight. Way too much legacy stuff to replace and interoperability issues. You need something additional like the hyperburst to point to as a game changer in order to convince leadership. Ammo and gun were a package deal here.
@@RongleBringer West Germany was going to, but then the budget cuts struck when East Germany fell.
Frye! You got the only wounded up positron blaster!!
its funny how this prototype from the 1960ies is still considered "the future gun" to this day
The G11 is such a unique and interesting gun.
When I was a kid , I was reading about this rifle in our Army's monthly paper. It seemed as something so cool and modern. 30 years later, being an engineer and hunter, this rifle fills me with utter revulsion. It being epitome of everything that service rifle should not be.
Coward
The most german looking receiver I've ever seen. "Ze knob here, pushes ze rod here that turns ze block here to pull ze receiver, then ze dinge here geht hier und zwo..." AARRRRGHH MY EYES
The comments of this vid are pure gold but you sir.. you nailed it!
@@TuxCommander Thank you, I could hear my old german teacher going on and on and on in my head while watching it.
Forgotten Weapons always have the strangest gun stuff.Keep going Ian.
Aw, I thought the -45 selector meant "45 round burst fire", like firing 45 rounds immediately 😢
No. Rpm was regulated to around ~460 rpm in full auto fire mode. This is close to the rpm of the HK G3 the German army had then as a main rifle.
The mechanism required to make a "45 round burst" would be ludicrous.
@@sarcasticguy4311 45 pieces of rounds were in the magazine. That is why the full auto fire mode was set as 45.
As well it should! Did you see how many small intricate tightly packed parts there are!? Nightmare trying to dis & ass in the field
I have a whole booklet from HK about this rifle, in my seargents course 1985 I held prototype No. 15 in my hands! I just recently visited a german Army collection and saw 7 versions of that rifle the last one looked pretty awesome.
If you take a system weight of 7,35 Kg you can have a G3 rifle with 120 rounds, a M16 with about 300 rounds and a G11 with 600 rounds +!
I still do not believe that this project was cancelled because of storage problems with the caseless ammo! I think that some "allied" power infested a strong veto regarding the introduction. Thios gun would have changed a lot for 50 + years!!!
extremely cool weapon , still very advanced
Charging the german gumball machine of pain. 😂
Carries the Simon Phoenix stamp of approval
When I was doing compulsory military service, we were using the G3. But there was a lot of talk about the replacement. And the main rumour was that it would be replaced with the G11. However, that didn't happen.
In Denmark?
@@ulrichenevoldsen8371 Close. Norway.
Technically our rifle was called AG3, but it is basically a G3 that is 3 cm longer.
@@Tjalve70 ah ok. We had it until about 1996 "( called model 76 because that was the year we got it ) then we got a Canadian built riffle similar to the M16.
@@ulrichenevoldsen8371 I think we also got a rifle similar to the M16, but I can't remember when that happened. Possibly the same one you guys got.
The sheer intelligence and engineering that went into that machine of that time is amazing to say the least.
Is this the weapon Felix used in Demolition man? It looks familiar
Yes it is
Yep, and the prop's cast was formed around a real one. Doesn't shoot plasma, though.
“It’s the future, where are the phaser guns and shit !”
Dead Space has a plasma welder. Sadly, it is not a projectile weapon
Simon Phoenix*
Three round burst, which should be slower, that fires two thousand rounds per minute, and full auto that fires six hundred rounds per minute, huh?
If the rate of fire used for the 3 round burst was applied to the full auto, it would be 1200 rounds per minute. Because it's in bursts, the pause between each trigger pull keeps it from overheating and warping. Keeping it down to 600 rounds does the same, especially since the largest drums were 600 rounds, you weren't going to be shooting solid for more than a minute, giving it time to cool down .
The mechanism is designed in a way, that in three round burst the Gun fires all three rounds so fast that all bullets leave the barrel before the recoil traveled to the rear and effects the shooter. In full auto it is like standard full auto where one bullet is shot, recoil hits, next round is loaded in the chamber and so on. So 3 rounds at theoretical 2000rpm if the mechanism would allow that and full auto with standard chugging away at 600
Bumpstock-firing this in burst mode would go hard!
i love the simple, straightforward, design!
One of the rare times Ryan Cawdor almost showed weakness is when he almost shed a tear over haven to leave this baby behind when he couldn't find any more ammo for it in The Deathlands.
Aww I thought you were posting a short because you managed to find one and fire a burst
... One used in Demolition Man 1993 Action/Sci-fi ( playing the part of a future non projectile/energy weapon!).
Wait a minute, is this thing technically a self loading fully automatic revolver? It’s got a revolving cylinder with chambers in it that the cartridges fire in, just like a revolver…
A self loading fully automatic revolver would be gatling type mechanisms.
The axis the chamber rotates on in the G11 would make it more of a self loading automatic break action.
The revolving part pivots in 90° up and forward. The Magazin sits on top of the gun with the Rounds facing upwards. They get pulled down in the chamber, the chamber pivots 90° to align with the Barrel, then it fires and the Chamber pivots back up again. So no Revolver with multiple chambers. Only one chamber that changes directions
loved this concept I loved it in bo1 and used it with the magnifying sight / freefloat was ahead of its time over engineering to hell and back this and the XM9 would love to own/fire
One of my favorite guns from fallout 2. Carried by Hubologists.
Show us a gun without showing us a gun...... nailed it 👌
H&K: What is your work experience?
“I used to be a watchmaker and I also…”
H&K: Say no more! You are hired!
This video was one of the best christmas presents ever.
Not adopted because of Soviet Union collapsing:
*Well, thank you Russia*
No, not adopted due to the collapse of DDR.
You have a piece of history right there. I want a piece of history too!
German Engineers, coming up with the most complicated mechanism for the simplest solutions (Assault rifle edition)
@@redneckturtle771 Check Krieghoff Semprio
my fav gun
I remember coming across one of these in Jagged Alliance 2
HEY MAN!! GREAT VID! MY FAVORITE PART IS WHEN YOU DIDN'T SHOW US THE GUN!!!!!!!!!
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I can just imagine the jams and the impossibility of clearing them
I believe this is also what inspired the pulse rifle in Aliens
Thank you
Mixed load capability with ammunition in three flavours: armour piercing, explosive and flechette rounds made it a war crime waiting to happen
Omg, that fire control group! This reminds me of your AN-94 "rocket surgery" video.
"this is kraut space magic"
This gun was awesome in Syphon Filter
Only H&K would put the inner guts of a watch inside a rifle and make it work.
Thank you.
Famously used at the Battle of NERV HQ, the last combat maneuver of the JSSDF and, consequentially, all of mankind.
I'd love to see it in action!
Note that hyper burst kicks very hard compared to a normal round because your shoulder has absolutely no chance to do anything before three shots are fired.
I have read about them but not enough to give an opinion. I was and still am intrigued by that weapon, it does have surprising advantages but as a light infantrymen I can see a lot to argue against!
Way way waaaay ahead of its time!!!! Still even today. Caseless!!!!! The next evolutionary step in small arms: nothing short of Revolutionary, really ! 😁👍🇦🇺
I would love to have one.
I completely forgot about this weapon.
The ammo for this thing was even more interesting....
It would have been nice to see it!!!!!!
As featured in Syphon Filter 2 best gun in that game!
This is the rifle I imagine every time caseless ammo is brought up in The Expanse books
I own an HK G11. Best can opener I've ever owned
Let’s see that on the range!!!
Imagine having to fix that in the field and realizing you forgot to bring your master clock maker
opening this weapon reveals a grandfather clock design
germany is absolutely wild with their tech
Definitely the inside of a Victorian era VHS player.
Ah Ryan Cawdor's rifel of choice in the Deathlands saga
Danke fürs reposten dieser Warnung!
When the gun comes with its own Genius Bar
The G11 was packed full of German engineering and was a very elegant tool of war
I will always remember this gun from Black Ops 1!
Still an incredibly cool rifle from a bygone era; as interesting as the mechanism was, I was transfixed by the magazines being kept on top of the rifle, alongside the barrel.
That mechanical chunk of thing looks just like the underside of a rolex with the case cover off. It's called the "movement."
That charging system needs a fallout 3 gauss rifle charging handle... Something you can cycle and still feel manly.
Современный автомат,гильзам и газовой автоматике надо в музейные списки ,мега ВЕЩЬ !Надо на вооружение принимать!
I remember in black ops 1 the reload was just replacing the barrel, tripped me out at the time
Cool idea for a rifle
It would be really nice to actually see the weapon
The full video is linked from this short clip.
It was so advanced and far ahead of its time, it would've made ammo weight less, get a standard weapon everyone could use
Hudson made using this thing look easy
When you commission a watch maker to make a gun. I want one so freakin bad man
Miss using this in B01