Ian McCollum, aka Gun Jesus, looks at the HK G11:
The workings of the rifle itself are insanely complicated, in traditional Swiss/German tradition. I saw a few reports on this rifle back in the day; cooking off of chambered rounds was a noted problem.
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I'd vaguely heard of these, nice overview. Big naval rifles are caseless, wonder how they handled the obturation problem.
When he said 1990 I thought, no need for new rifles boys, you just lost the Soviet Union as enemy and inherited millions of AK-74s.
That mechanism reminds me of the wheelock for the 20th century, for sure not field stripable nor serviceable, depot repair only.
I think the silly, sexy Star Ship Troopers movie used the HK G11 as a model.
The big naval rifles used interrupted-thread screw breeches.
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