In comparison to the AK rifles, used by Communist forces, the G11 had more than twice the number of parts. Compared to this Soviet simplicity, the G11 was an engineering marvel, but how this incredibly complex design would have fared in combat will forever be a mystery. At the heart of the G11 is what looks like a clump of disks, cogs, gears, and springs. When firing, the gas from the previous shot pushes a piston, which rotates the breech upwards and allows a round to drop into the chamber, it then rotates back into alignment with the barrel and is ready to be fired.
Once the disk is lifted off and a number of levers have been moved, it is possible to lift out the cylinder itself. The chamber inside the cylinder is actually a replaceable part because with such a high rate of fire, the chamber has a service life of just 3, rounds—roughly 70 full magazines worth of ammunition. It was politics.
With the fall of the Berlin Wall in and the collapse of the Soviet Union two years later, West Germany began the process of reunification with the formerly communist East Germany, and the huge cost of this essentially made the adoption of the G11 impossible. Military spending was slashed and without the huge amount of cash needed to manufacture the new, incredibly complex rifle the future of the G11 evaporated along with the enemy it was designed to fight.
At the same time, the U. The G11 was planned as part of a family of weapons including the "G11 PDW," a gas-operated machine pistol using a shortened 4. It is not particularly clear how the "package," which was said to have no spring, actually operated. Jump to: navigation , search. Namespaces Page Discussion.
Views Read View source View history. The cocking handle does not move when gun is fired. Another interesting detail is that barrel, rotating breech, feed module and magazine are mounted in the housing that can move in the rifle back and forth. When firing single shots, the housing moves back and forward after the each shot.
When firing the full-auto, the housing moves back and forward during each shot, resulting in moderate rate of fire of some round per minute. But, when firing the three-round bursts, second and third cartridges are feed and fired as soon as the chamber is ready for it, and third bullet leaves the barrel PRIOR to the moment when the housing becomes to its rearward position.
This results in wery high rate of fire with three-shots bursts - ca. Also, this results in that the actual recoil affects the rifle AFTER the last bullet in the burst is fired. Rifle featured built-in 1X optical sight with simple circle aiming reticle. Prototypes of the weapon, along with the G11 K1, used 4.
These prototypes had problems with the bullet breaking off the propellant block if handled roughly. The G11 K2 carbine used the more well-known 4. The ACR variation of the weapon fired a 4.
In the older versions of the ammunition, the solid propellant body was made of compressed NC gunpowder, until they had switched to HITP high-ignition temperature propellant by the time that the 13th prototype was developed.
There were also variations of the rounds designed to combat the G11's cook off problems, from aluminum foil being wrapped around the propellant body, to silver-coated propellant bodies. Gun Wiki Explore. On the Wiki. About and Community.
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