Kraut Space Magic: the H&K G11
Kraut Space Magic: the H&K G11
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I have been waiting for a long time to have a chance to make this video – the Heckler & Koch G11! Specifically, a G11K2, the final version approved for use by the West German Bundeswehr, before being cancelled for political and economic reasons.
The G11 was a combined effort by H&K and Dynamit Nobel to produce a new rifle for the German military with truly new technology. The core of the system was the use of a caseless cartridge developed in the late 60s and early 70s by Dynamit Nobel, which then allowed H&K to design a magnificently complex action which could fire three rounds in a hyper-fast (~2000 rpm) burst and have all three bullets leave the barrel before the weapon moved in recoil.
Remarkably, the idea went through enough development to pass German trials and actually be accepted for service in the late 1980s (after a funding shutdown when it proved incapable of winning NATO cartridge selection trials a decade earlier). However, the reunification with East Germany presented a reduced strategic threat, a new surplus of East German combat rifles (AK74s), and a huge new economic burden to the combined nations and this led to the cancellation of the program. The US Advanced Combat Rifle program gave the G11 one last grasp at a future, but it was not deemed a sufficient improvement in practical use over the M16 platform to justify a replacement of all US weapons in service.
The G11 lives on, however, as an icon of German engineering prowess often referred to as “Kraut Space Magic” (in an entirely complimentary take on the old pejorative). That it could be so complex and yet still run reliably in legitimate military trials is a tremendous feat by H&K’s design engineers, and yet one must consider that the Bundeswehr may just have dodged a bullet when it ended up not actually adopting the rifle.
Many thanks to H&K USA for giving me access to the G11 rifles in their Grey Room for this video!
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One of the most interesting Guns I’ve ever seen.
This gun looks like it came straight from 007 golden eye on N64
This was my favourite gun in video games, from syphon filter 2
Is this the same G11 from Fallout 2?
That’s the ugliest gun I’ve ever seen in my life.
This thing is the absolute opposite of ergonomic. I wonder how it got this far with the German military.
All of the games had G11 that nobody animates that release mag button.
This is probably my most rewatched YouTube-vid. A very interesting weapon, presented in an engaging and informative way.
Apart from the M16-seeming auto-converted AR-15 with a fake M203 grenade launcher of Scarface and Predator fame and one of the hero-versions of the Colonial Marines pulse-rifles from the Aliens-movie this is probably my favorite weapon!
Send this gun to demolition ranch
This is like the anti-AK in terms of design complexity
They done turned an air conditioner into a 3-shot burst railgun
The G11
You don’t need to be a better shot.
You just need more firerate.
Do you take this to a gunsmith or a watch repair shop?
I often wonder if some of these requests for guns comes from fans of Fallout 2.
I love the look of this gun I know it from call of duty the video game this guy is gun Jesus still watching him now
Wasn’t this in Demolition Man…? 🤔
IGI 2 is the only game where this gun is introduced.
I remember this gun from syphon filter heheh
It actually makes sense the Germans would like a gun where the action has more moving parts than a clock
"jim’s toy"
Reminds me of Starship Troopers. It would look even cooler with a foregrip and a flashlight.
Magnetic accelerater gun from demolition man
he. makes cool videos but something about his voice and the way he talks I can’t fucking stand it lol
I love this gun
My favorite gun of call of duty
I was introduced to this interesting concept as a kid,thanks to the video game called Global Operations. Gorgeous futuristic failure weapon.
such a cool gun that could revolutionize firearms if it was properly supported and modified. Like seriously do you know of any other weapon where you can carry 150 rounds of ammo on the gun itself and it’s the same weight as the modern standard infantry rifle with 30 rounds?
i thought Rob Liefeld rectangle guns are fictional … and here we are
It looks like a microwave attachment. Of course, the US didn’t adopt it.
Looks like it required batteries.
I used to play the Table Top RPG "Twilight: 2000". The number of fictional post-apocalyptic marauders that were mowed down with this gun is the stuff of legend…👉💨
oh the insides cant be to complic.. JESUS CHRIST WHAT THE HELL
that kinda looks like the g11 from bo1
Dwayne tell me about the grenade launcher
you started this, show me everything
Does this mean muskets use caseless ammunition
Anyone know the name of that gun to the guys “right hand side”? It kinda looks like a UMP from call of duty. Anyone help plz????
Trust the germans to over engineer the shit out of a gun to the point its useless🤦♂️
Hahaha that title. I’m German and that made me chuckle.
So Nice titeling a video with a racial slur. You are lucky that germans are just white people.
Let’s be honest we only know about this from BO1
Tưởng khẩu này chỉ có trong cf chứ
I’ve shot this gun many times….
On a video game 😄 🤣 😂 this gun is a beauty
Это оружие было в игре Syphon Filter 2
That is a parts-buyer’s worst nightmare.
The gun that helped John Conner defeat Skynet.
Ah yes, the hidden BO1 “assault rifle”
Carv on modern warfare stands for caseless asault rifle variant mind blown😂
… all it need is a cuckoo springing out of the barrel
The inner workings are a thing of beauty. This rifle is a work of art.
Weird guns like this are always cool.