>takes it apart >is built like a watch Yup, it's German.

@hrissan

4 жыл бұрын

Geoffrey Guestion show that one to WW2 Russian rifle engineers, I’m pretty sure they would come up with a ways to greatly simplify it 😸

@mwnciboo

4 жыл бұрын

Why use 2 parts when you could use 50. Ronnie Barrett would simplify this, much like he did with the M240.

@terrorcop101

4 жыл бұрын

You sure it's not Swiss?

@Ake-TL

4 жыл бұрын

There’s german gear based warhammer with opening face revealing 4 flintlock pistols. Just wanted to share this fact

@terrorcop101

4 жыл бұрын

@@Ake-TL I think the thing you're thinking of was a wheelock.

"We fire the whole bullet, thats 65% more bullet per bullet" - Cave Johnson

@seanwilliams4692

3 жыл бұрын

Regular guns: *cries in 65% less bullet per bullet*

@Attaxalotl

3 жыл бұрын

"I have yet to meet someone who can outsmart bullet"- Heavy.

@justaregularoldpileofsnow6877

3 жыл бұрын

@@Attaxalotl scout: yo what's up

@dr2d2

3 жыл бұрын

@@Attaxalotl Scout, Spy dead ringer and anyone who is uber charged

@Attaxalotl

3 жыл бұрын

@@dr2d2 ah.

This rifle was designed so that in the field you can disassemble it and create a steam engine for quick evac.

@remyrichardson8614

Жыл бұрын

Steam engine? Nah, a luxury airliner.

@musik847.1

Жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

@christianschluter6458

Жыл бұрын

@TheDuckMeister You haven't checked the triggergroup ... did ya? Greetz from Germany!!!

@Akumasama

11 ай бұрын

@@theduckmeister1600 Feels like they tried to.

@Shuomin1

9 ай бұрын

Steam engine...Dude u r so increative. That is designed to build a wrap engine so you can actually evac to another galaxy

No matter how long you've been around guns, this is like learning about the rotary engine after 1 week in mechanical engineering school

@Kittendownloads

7 ай бұрын

The rotary is simpler than a piston engine though

@manzion7591

7 ай бұрын

This caseless firearm and the Wankel motor are both smart and well executed advancements. But that is not what humanity prioritizes. Perhaps each will return as SoTA year 2030.

@penelopegreene

6 ай бұрын

Just keep their undersea electric pistol as your sidearm when you use it!

@popupheadlights

6 ай бұрын

Wankel engines are pretty simple though a 2rotor only has 3 moving parts

@popupheadlights

6 ай бұрын

@@manzion7591I can only hope and pray we get an rx9/rx7 revival.

*Pulls off front* Ah, it's just a barrel. *Pulls off back* Ah, it's just a time machine or something.

@diana_gir1

3 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂😂

@farthuffington6466

3 жыл бұрын

Business in the front, Cenobites in the back

@Dorian-_-Gray

3 жыл бұрын

*28:42*

@tractorhead971

3 жыл бұрын

It’s a modified windscreen wiper mechanism...

@gibmelson7628

3 жыл бұрын

Campost Heap germany west: what a country...🇩🇪🇩🇪! merkel👻, porsche, bmw, mercedes, münchen 👍🏻👹 and people from 800 other nations. a multistate par excellence .....

"The redstone is simple"

@Regnum_Scilandicum

3 жыл бұрын

-mumbo jumbo

@aksellstavik559

3 жыл бұрын

@@Regnum_Scilandicum 0⁰00000000000000000⁰000ppppppppp in Agadir in Agadir last season with no loss for

@supercoolboy8184

3 жыл бұрын

@@aksellstavik559 r u austistic

@chrizonlozanotventure7466

3 жыл бұрын

@@aksellstavik559 r/ihadastroke

@dyllankolinen

3 жыл бұрын

Idk why this gives me “The game is fun” vibes but it does

I'm surprised that Switzerland wasn't all over this one: if there's anyone who could be taught to field strip that monster it's probably a hardened watchmaker.

@41tl

Ай бұрын

"hardened watchmaker" .....lol.

It's incredible to see all the cost and precision that went into this gun be almost entirely in the internals while the outside is just a plain, albeit rugged, plastic shell. Like a 5 gal bucket housing an atomic clock.

Looks like it does +20% damage against giant space insects.

@atheistbiker

Жыл бұрын

"I'm doing my part!" "Would you like to know more?"

@NegativeROG

Жыл бұрын

LOL!

@RepublicanGuardMan

Жыл бұрын

Or -8000% damage against big scary aliens named after angels

@AnimeSunglasses

Жыл бұрын

@@RepublicanGuardMan Gotta scale it up to mech sized for those!

@RepublicanGuardMan

Жыл бұрын

@@AnimeSunglasses youre better off using a scaled up ACR tho

So, a watchmaker, a steam locomotive engineer and a chemist walk into a bar.....

@davydovua

5 жыл бұрын

And the bartender says, "You're lucky folks, we've got a new special coctail today called German Governmental Development Funding"

@Betterhose

5 жыл бұрын

I thought it was a virgin conception by HK from the "teutonic gods of germanness", as Ian called them in some other video.

@darnit1944

5 жыл бұрын

And Hecker and Koch came in. They said "Wan sum jobs?"

@Lavourrin

5 жыл бұрын

And they meet a guy who make plastic blocks for a living

@paulnathanmullock6214

5 жыл бұрын

Such a shame that they were conscripted into the army to fight the United States....

I remembered as a 6-7 year old boy I was peering through this new set of encyclopedia my mom bought and in one of the volumes was the G11 rifle dubbed as being "advanced warfare". I remembered that some of the things alluded to here were discussed: the rotating chamber, the 3-shot no recoil, the caseless ammunition. One of my earliest memories as a kid just gobbling up information like a sponge. Thank you for this trip down memory lane.

@40nakedniggasonahugespacecraft

8 ай бұрын

What you're seeing is Advanced Warfare

@Johnny_Matheson

4 ай бұрын

what you're seeing here is advanced warfare

@SaltLight7

3 ай бұрын

Same thing for me. I remember seeing a diagram of the internals and was fascinated with every part of it. Ya know, I think that encyclopedia set is still at my parent's house. I might have to look for it the next time I visit them.

@dominicphillips6046

Ай бұрын

not surprising that the encyclopaedia had an entire volume dedicated to the G11

@Lighthammer18

14 күн бұрын

Are you ever in a situation where someone asks you something and you just... know it.. and you have no clue why you know it or where you learned it? Happens to me all the time and I was also a infosponge as a kid.

I freaking love the fact that each prototype of G11 has their looks reflective of the futuristic aesthetic of the respective time period.

@AngryBoozer

6 ай бұрын

Yeah. Being 80s, it has that Robocop sci-fi feel

@aidanwarren4980

4 ай бұрын

This looks like a space marine weapon. If I'm not mistaken, the guns in the Alien franchise all use caseless ammunition. Never thought I'd be confronted by firearm hauntology.

@tumetal

4 ай бұрын

holy hell word salad... tell me - how are you able to **reflect** on the future? Furthermore, how are you able to reflect on a future that is simultaneously the present (*respective*) time period? Finally, how will you prevent yourself from commenting in the future?

@MaskedDeath_

4 ай бұрын

@@tumetal The looks of the weapon reflects on how "future" was perceived in the time period when the weapon was designed. If this, too, is word salad, I can try to dumb it down more for you :)

@Kay-bs3bl

4 ай бұрын

It's not even necessarily the future of the past (which by the way is also a tense in English grammar, meaning that particular concept is embedded in the language core functions.) Futurism *is* an aesthetic. The sentence simplified could just mean "the G11 is reflective of that particular aesthetic at that time in history". He wasn't even anally correct.

Before taking off the plastic: oh this looks like a sci-fi gun After taking off the plastic: oh it's a steampunk gun

@timh6792

2 жыл бұрын

Looks more like a rolex watch

@user-vg8ii1pb7b

2 жыл бұрын

Or a sewing machine

@HSS_yt

2 жыл бұрын

it's kraut steam magic

@Jakewake52

2 жыл бұрын

It has made me consider if you could syphon recoil into a pinwheeel and by proxy charge a battery for sci-fi stuff

@spidermonk3uVvwy8-2

2 жыл бұрын

That gun has more parts than my chance of not getting prediabetes

"We fire the whole bullet! That's 65% more bullet per bullet!"

@AxiomIndustries

5 жыл бұрын

The cAkE iS A LiE

@NefariousKoel

5 жыл бұрын

That's a fancy drill bit launcher you gentlemen have.

@redwolfexr

5 жыл бұрын

@@AxiomIndustries You mean the CASE is a lie...

@AxiomIndustries

5 жыл бұрын

Ah yes, of course

@Taolan8472

5 жыл бұрын

If you were to design a rocketball round for a modern caliber, that would literally be firing the whole bullet. Rocketball rounds are an early concept of caseless ammo from before cased ammo had been popularized. You hollow out a miniball projectile and pack it with powder, then cap it off with your primer. Most rocketballs were small caliber meant for pistols and were woefully underpowered, but new materials and powders someone looking to do a caseless weapon could potentially revisit rocketball...

Literally every aspect of this gun is a gigantic departure from everything in conventional firearms. Can you imagine how different the gun landscape would be today if this design had been pursued more?

This is my "Aliens" of forgotten weapons episodes. I have it memorized but I keep watching it and it never gets old. This is the coolest functional firearm on this or any other planet

Leave it the germans to teach a clock how to fire bullets.

@Mystakaphoros

5 жыл бұрын

*applause*

@TheHylianJuggalo

5 жыл бұрын

@Alan Hardcastle go sit in the corner and think about your life choices.

@nordicberserk

5 жыл бұрын

You win the internet.

@spitefulwar

5 жыл бұрын

Oberndorf is situated at the eastern border of the Black Forest, home of the cuckoo clock... ;)

@TCMk23

5 жыл бұрын

Comment of the year

I am a German engineer, and everything about this weapon seems perfectly reasonable to me.

@masterenos

3 жыл бұрын

Well there's your problem

@isaacserbin8763

3 жыл бұрын

@@masterenos the only problem was timing and money. This gun should have been put into production. It should be done rn.

@uwekirschling9757

3 жыл бұрын

As a German technician it seems to me to have been over engineered (although my experience is more in bigger weapons systems.. Caliber 120mm and above)

@Chris5685

3 жыл бұрын

@@uwekirschling9757 *Removes the 962nd screw from the subframe of any German car, said subframe is still firmly attached to the chassis and every single part that is supported by it* Yep, Germans made this

@ProPatriaRO

3 жыл бұрын

As a Romanian engineer i agree.

Ich durfte das G11 im Jahr 1990 in der Grundausbildung im Rahmen eines Truppenversuches mal schießen. Also ich muss sagen das Teil war Gut. Ich fand es Schade das es diese Waffe nie in die Truppe geschafft hat. Die war präzise , relativ Leicht und gut zu Schießen. Das war Technik auf hohem Niveau.

@redj7930

6 ай бұрын

I'd say it's some of the most cutting-edge engineering work of mankind. I feel honored to see it out in the world. I think the futuristic design used on this gun is still too early for us today, but it could be me. My thinking is still stuck in the 2000s or even earlier. After all, people in the past would think complex products were cool. But when it comes to weapons, what we are popular now is a simple style with good performance and versatility. I will tend to use this gun as a prototype. Just like smokeless gunpowder and M1886

@Kiiw3y

6 ай бұрын

So zufrieden ich mit dem G36 auch bin hätte ich lieber das G11 bekommen. Hast du das Gewehr im Rahmen des Truppenversuches auch zerlegen müssen? Das stelle ich mir bei dem Brocken anstrengend vor

Jonathan Ferguson was right when he said. “This gun is like if you gave a clock maker class A drugs and asked him to make a firearm.”

How to maintain this firearm: 1. Get a PhD in Mechanical Engineering

@jonasben9649

3 жыл бұрын

@@Marzsala its in fallout 2

@epauletshark3793

3 жыл бұрын

@@Marzsala a theoretical degree? Those exist?

@motsu9497

3 жыл бұрын

@@Marzsala what does that even entail what does having something theoretical open the door to I'm intrigued

@martinhow121

3 жыл бұрын

@@Marzsala A can of WD-40

@SweetMattieG

3 жыл бұрын

I accidentally read that as medical engineering.

"Yeah but how do you stop dirt from clogging the whole system?" Germans: **builds it like a fucking submarine**

@Esablaka

4 жыл бұрын

if it works why not?

@SaladofStones

4 жыл бұрын

clearly the g-11 is not an example to give of something working

@Dancingcuban

4 жыл бұрын

@@Esablaka Because submarines aren't designed to be field stripped by soldiers. If you have to choose, better to have a gun that is easy to clean, than a gun that is difficult to get dirty.

@Esablaka

4 жыл бұрын

@@SaladofStones But.... it worked? Or are there any reports about the gun not functioning? Atleast this video didnt mention anything about it.

@Esablaka

4 жыл бұрын

​@@Dancingcuban Well true. But I am pretty sure they had something in mind.

You could just hose it down with WD-40 on occasion and it would probably run forever

Ian, the ejection port not only serves to drop a dud round. It also serves to dump out expended primers allowing for a clean chamber as the next round is placed before going into battery. I've always been fascinated by the G11 since it showed up in the 70s And through the 80s. I wish I could have actually seen this beast in action.

@ArjunaKunti

Ай бұрын

This could be a telescoped cased cartridge design if we eliminate the barrel&mechanism recoil system then...

here at aperture science, we fire the whole bullet. thats 65% more bullet per bullet

@caderidley2309

2 жыл бұрын

You're looking for a gyrojet, now that's all the bullet

@morganpriest7726

2 жыл бұрын

@@caderidley2309 ITS 100% BULLET

@juj9305

2 жыл бұрын

@@caderidley2309 ah yes

@automatonm99

Жыл бұрын

Sounds right

@1lovesoni

Жыл бұрын

I realize it's a portal quote but it's surprisingly close to correct, in this context. The ammo was considered to be just over 50% lighter than 5.56, meaning a soldier could carry 510 of these rounds for the same 16.2lbs/7,35kg weight as 240 5.56mm rounds (also equivalent to 100 7.62x51mm rounds). Doubling a soldiers combat load also lets them fire the G11s 3-rnd hyper burst nearlt as often as they would fire single aimed shots with an M4/M16, meaning they can shoot 300% more projectiles/bullets per shot. Which works out to roughly 66% more bullets per shot.

An old college friend described the G11: "Its a gun from the future from the past."

@playplusconnect5975

4 жыл бұрын

That is the best description of this by far.

@maxanklowitz9888

4 жыл бұрын

It could have replaced the p90 on SG1 stargate since it is as weird looking.

@vonfaustien3957

4 жыл бұрын

I rember the enclave in fallout packing these. I fit in pretty well with the sci energy weapons

@jerrell1169

4 жыл бұрын

Feldgrau Fox Believe it or not, it’s called the H&K G11. It’s from Fallout 2 though so maybe you’re thinking of the wrong game.

@sillyeyelash291

4 жыл бұрын

And he let you live?

When you launch an interesting video in the background, listen it for a while, realizing "wow, what a nice story", check the time... and there is 20 more minutes to go!)) Brilliant!

When it comes to a technical level of how the gun works this is without a doubt the coolest weapon in existence

This is why you dont leave german engineers unsupervised in a room alone for 30 minutes

@torinodeguzman4243

5 жыл бұрын

YOU UTTER FOOL GERMAN SCIENCE IS THE BEST IM THE WORLD!!!?

@carlsjr.74

5 жыл бұрын

@@torinodeguzman4243 hmm as German i wonder how other People think about us:P I say VW, HK Heckler & Koch has massive problems with the G36 in German Army, and Germany is the most BOOOOOOOORING Place on this Planet.

@torinodeguzman4243

5 жыл бұрын

@@carlsjr.74 did you get the JoJo reference

@adityapermana9651

5 жыл бұрын

DOITSU NO KAGAKU WA SEKAI ICHI!! *Extending right hand into the air

@thegodemperorofmankind3090

5 жыл бұрын

Torino Deguzman yes i got the reference stroheim

The internals of the G11 looks like what everyone that doesn't know anything about guns imagines the internals of a gun looks like.

@lorax8172

3 жыл бұрын

Most underrated comment

@ximitify

3 жыл бұрын

Now i can say its complicated.

@Original50

2 жыл бұрын

Some steampunk fashizzle there, eh?!

@caderidley2309

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe to someone who understands this system could look at it and think it looks real simple... I fear what ever looks complicated to them

@eddietat95

2 жыл бұрын

Where's the shoulder thing that goes up?

Absolutely fascinating operating system! The 60s-80s really were an amazing time for the design and development of almost everything! Thank you for taking the time to make this video!

@tomwinterfishing9065

Ай бұрын

Shockingly bad for architecture though!

The G-11 is futuristic, but it's the kind of future you travel back in time to prevent from happening.

@tumetal

4 ай бұрын

nah

@andrewsinclair7159

4 ай бұрын

@@tumetal yeh

@tumetal

4 ай бұрын

yup nah...@@andrewsinclair7159

@ArjunaKunti

Ай бұрын

If they knew the costs they would probably terminate its development back in ~1978 after the first unsuccesful NATO trials.

I can’t believe that Ian’s vid of the G11 is one of the top results for the search “space magic”

@MohamadDasyrian

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks National Socialist quantum catboy

@themanman7642

3 жыл бұрын

Schrödinger 7 months ago??? femboy man

@Icantbuttons

3 жыл бұрын

Holy shit, it really is!

@agularis

3 жыл бұрын

Now do a G11 reload.

@jamthatruth4174

3 жыл бұрын

Yooo reload guy

"This was a pretty good gun. It met all the requirements for being a infantry rifle, even surpassing the current rifles. For obvious reasons, it was never adopted." Sounds about right.

@Alraygun

3 жыл бұрын

money

@leonardo9259

3 жыл бұрын

Great video, I learnt valuable things and changed my life Unsubscribed and reported.

@nlynn98

3 жыл бұрын

"and the U.S. government found there was no improvement over the m16 in combat trials"

@hiTocopter

3 жыл бұрын

@@nlynn98 Good for them...?

@Mr.Mosquito89

3 жыл бұрын

@@hiTocopter Someone missed the joke.

Congrats to jim.. his toy is awesome. Also, wish Ian had referenced the Machinegun Version of the G11 that was planned. Solid Block magazine with x many rounds, inserted as a kind of shoulderstock..

This was one of my favorite weapons to use in an old PC game called Global Operations (2002) made by Barking Dog Studios (who then turned into Rockstar).

Some fun facts about the G11: - The soldiers were supposed to carry additional magazines in a quiver, similar to the one you carry on your back to transport arrows. - The rate of fire slows down after extensive sustained fire. The reason is that the heat leads to thermal expansion of the rotating bolt which acts like a drum brake. At 22:17 you can see the gap between the bolt and the receiver which would get smaller. - Later models of the G11 have a predetermined breaking point in the receiver and bolt which would lead the explosion downwards in case the ammunition detonates. Apparently, it was a real pain to engineer those breaking points in as an afterthought. - H&K has/used to have a civilian division which produces a wide array of machines including sewing machines. Some of the engineers who usually develop the sewing machines worked on the mechanical system of the G11. EDIT: Because there are questions about the sources in the comments below: Some of the information are from a member of the WTS (Scientific Collection of Defence Engineering Specimens) which is part of the Federal Office of Defence Technology and Procurement. They have a very nice museum in the city of Koblenz. I also used to know one of the engineers who worked for HK in the 80s, he told me some of the interesting things. Even though this infos are anectdotal, I have no reason to doubt the people who provided them. I should have mentioned the sources earlier, though. I didn't really thought about it considering this is a KZread video.

@joshuabressel1280

5 жыл бұрын

Why does this comment not have more likes? I love trivia like that! Danké sir!

@gabrielgutierrez913

5 жыл бұрын

Amazing facts, thanks mate.

@Dedfaction

5 жыл бұрын

'Spare magazines were carried in a quiver'. Stop, I can only get so erect. I

@luisitobardajibenitez8013

5 жыл бұрын

maybe they used civil engineers because they didn't know what you can and cannot do, so they just went for it.

@angry_engineer

5 жыл бұрын

this is one of the best comments i saw on youtube for a while. it must be pinned to the top.

I feel like the US ACR trials are just an occasional sick joke that the US Military likes to play on the world's top arms developers. "Thank you all for coming, it was fun playing with your toys, but we STILL like the M16!" **blows raspberrys and flips everyone the bird**

@BTW4LK

5 жыл бұрын

The Hiphopopotamus yeah, even Colt and AAI got shafted because “they didn’t meet requirements”

@codygreene9067

5 жыл бұрын

Essentially yes

@AWMJoeyjoejoe

5 жыл бұрын

Just what I was thinking. Imagine what it would cost to replace the M16! Doesn't bear thinking about!

@lycossurfer8851

5 жыл бұрын

Think of all the "Forgotten Weapons" episodes we wouldn't have if they did........

@torbai

5 жыл бұрын

In fact, none of the 4 testing rifles had superior accuracy than M16. That made the project coming to the end.

Just to rub some salt in H&K's wounds, this setup looks like it could also work with FN's 5.7mm round; it looks like the system meant to expel dud caseless rounds would also eject spent brass, and a straight-wall, waxed cartridge like the 5.7 would solve the overheating problem. Also, for all its clockwork complexity, it solved the big issue the AN-94 ran into with its mobile feed ramp by simply fixing the magazine to the action, so it goes along for the ride.

@moparty4409

Жыл бұрын

The 5.7 round is necked

@ArjunaKunti

Жыл бұрын

​@@moparty4409 but straight walled.

@ArjunaKunti

Ай бұрын

HK G11 could be also a telescoped cased cartridge design if we eliminate the barrel&mechanism recoil system. Would be nice to see a prototype in 5.7x28.

Great video. I read about the G-11 as a teenager in the 1980’s and always thought it sounded amazing. Frankly it still does. It is a shame that no one adopted it and that caseless ammo weapons have not been further developed. Thanks for showing so much of this very cool relic of what could have been.

“Hey Fritz” “Yes Hanz?” “First one to turn the wall clock into a gun wins a pack of Becks” **1 hour later** “I present the H&K G11”

@deusexmachia3548

3 жыл бұрын

You'll have to pick a better beer for Hans to be motivated

@arthurbarbosa8204

3 жыл бұрын

Underrated comment. You deserve my like.

@plt927

3 жыл бұрын

2 minor notes on this: It's not a pack, its called a "Kasten" Don't even bother to try motivating any german with Beck's - Astra, Flens, Rothaus, Altenmünster, Paulaner or Erdinger are way better

@JBNimbleBand

3 жыл бұрын

@@plt927 thanks for the recommendations. I love German beer.

@flaviapunktexe6924

3 жыл бұрын

@@JBNimbleBand i love it too, but not Becks

"This is like the AN-94, but simpler" (confused screams)

@shred1894

3 жыл бұрын

simpler in concept*

@bobmartin9918

3 жыл бұрын

@Alex Jongenelen ah nuu cheeki breeki iv damnke

@richardtaylor1652

3 жыл бұрын

The Russians managed to create something more complex than the Germans... What has happened to the world?!

@billysmith4688

3 жыл бұрын

i walways thought the g11 was fake, and treyarch made up a gun

@bobmartin9918

3 жыл бұрын

@@billysmith4688 nah it's very real and the working prototypes still exist.

This might be my favorite vid title ever.

A classified study by NASA, Air Force, and Navy found that caseless ammunition or brass retention is a requirement for a weapon intended to be used in zero gravity.

@maxpower3990

Ай бұрын

Unless you’re shooting inside a spaceship or station it would require an oxidiser in the powder to work and a way to counter act the recoil.

@dkoz8321

Ай бұрын

@@maxpower3990 A bunch of smart engineers at MASA, Air Force Lab, and defense contractors did a bunch of dev work and came up with experimental solutions. The frame of suit would have micro thrusters built in to stabilize shooter automatically using gyros. Boots that gripped the surface. One promising technology used puffs of compressed air from shooter's air supply . A nozzle was attached to firearm with soft hose connected to breathing air mix. Accelerometer inside nozzle device would register recoil and release appropriate amount of air puff as microburst to counteract recoil. Propellant charges are already self oxidizing and work in vacuum . Just as they work under water. Brass is a problem. In zero G it becomes a Hazzard due to quantity. Solution is caseless ammunition. Projectiles also present a space pollution issue in orbit. One proposed solution is frozen solid CO2 rounds. After firing the projectile would eventually boil away aided by vacuum of space, EM radiation. Solid CO2 ammunition would allow forces to manufacture their own ammunition using compressed gas and refrigeration.

@andrzej2501

28 күн бұрын

@@maxpower3990 Dude, seriously? ALL types of gun powder are a mix of fuel and oxidizer, you don't need external oxygen for firearms to work. What are you, a home-schooled creationists?

On the Outside: 80's futuristic space Gun. On the Inside: Steampunk Clockwork Gun.

@NightclubPegasus1

4 жыл бұрын

You know what they say, "Get one that can do both".

@edwardwood6532

4 жыл бұрын

German engineers managed to complicate the wheellock mechanism, a clocked based blackpowder pistol from the mid 1500's. www.vikingsword.com/vb/showthread.php?t=18036

@marty2129

4 жыл бұрын

Now that would be steampunk LARPer's/airsoft guy's wet dream: leave covers on = 90's most insane gun for airsoft remove covers = insane victorian clockwork automatic handcannon

@uncannyvalley2350

4 жыл бұрын

They had stealth jets and cellphones by 1942, possibly even time travel, ( see Joseph Farrell ) ...they dont make em like that anymore

@terminalpsychosis8022

4 жыл бұрын

@@marty2129 Realistically, this rotating sytem would be perfect for airsoft / piant. No cartridge. Ok, cleaning a paint ball misfire in that complicated clockwork could be a challenge. :-) Still, seems a very good design for anything that doesn't require a projectile case.

lock german engineers into a dark room with nothing and when you come back the door will open by itself

@BloodmoonPyke

4 жыл бұрын

Also it will serve you a traditional german breakfast and read the whole Duden on command

@tHiNk413

4 жыл бұрын

@@BloodmoonPyke But only after they developed a DIN for your toilet seat, your cats waterbowl and your cars steering wheel.....

@Meekmillan

4 жыл бұрын

StuckInToaster and America will say there was a never a door as they relocate the whole room to where they keep a stockpile of paperclips.

@zacharieelfali3401

4 жыл бұрын

And everything falls apart after a few hours of use and it costs a lung to replace.

@ThomasNimmesgern

4 жыл бұрын

@@zacharieelfali3401 What you described is Apple's business model.

I wish I could see the face of a basic 17 year old boot who has to field strip and put it back together in under 2 minutes while an instructor is yelling at him.

This G11 made the cover of Military Small Arms of the 20th Century, 6th edition, if you want more info on this weapon, and the ammo... And now we have this excellent video, thank you Forgotten Weapons, great work!

My heart goes out to the poor Bundesweher armorer that had to strip this thing for the first time "Oh, this is looks not so bad, maybe it is just a few- GOTT IN HIMMEL!!!"

@TheAKgunner

3 жыл бұрын

I'll bet he told his buddies at the beer hall "You would not believe this rifle. I know we Germans must overengineer everything, but mein Gott, this was too much! There are Swiss watches less complex then that nightmare!"

@anamusingidiot2565

3 жыл бұрын

German Zach

@SeaPhantom

3 жыл бұрын

"Hans!! Look at this gun! The internals look like the inside of a clock tower!"

@TheAKgunner

3 жыл бұрын

@@SeaPhantom "That's not a good thing, Schultz."

@V-V1875-h

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheAKgunner litterally

Germany: The place where the future was yesterday

@ToastytheG

5 жыл бұрын

Ein, zwei, polizei!

@shaggnar2014

5 жыл бұрын

The Germans saw the future and decided it wasn't efficient enough and decided to wait with the rest of us as it is a more practical solution

@stefanb5189

5 жыл бұрын

@@1970DAH hahaha you are a funny insecure child. BuT but ThE inViSibLe sKy DaDDy Of ThE BrOwN pEoPle11111111111!!111111!

@Betterhose

5 жыл бұрын

@@stefanb5189 His tin foil hat is too tight, so that the blood can't flow to the brain anymore.

@giostisskylas

5 жыл бұрын

I should not tell you ... but we Germans are a secret Borg collective. We were sent out to assimilate planet Earth. Resistance is futile. Expects the transformation to a cybernetic organism. A bright future in the Borg collective is approaching you.

I love how excited you look in the thumbnail. And rightfully so.

This thing is awesome, so long as the heat problem is workable I think we’re seeing the eventual future of fire arms here. Less moving parts and three times as much ammunition are huge selling points

The G11 sounds like the outcome if they asked a brilliant genius who never seen a gun to design a gun with explaining every little detail but without ever showing him one. And it worked.

@privateprofile9659

4 жыл бұрын

It's the Rotary Engine of guns.

@Raulz

4 жыл бұрын

@@privateprofile9659 Cool,works but less reliable than a 3$ Master Lock

@ChaosBW

3 жыл бұрын

Quite the opposite. This took a lot of engineering for both the gun and the ammunition. If you want to see the outcome of a gun being made with no knowledge of guns, check out home made guns.

@mr.squishy5024

3 жыл бұрын

@@Raulz The Wankel is not less reliable that a 3$ Master lock, it functions perfectly fine.

@mccool132

3 жыл бұрын

Aliens?

safe semi-auto three round burst and a special fire mode that sucks 45 rounds back into the gun high-tech stuff.

@ericph9

5 жыл бұрын

You put what I was thinking into words better than I ever could have myself

@Betterhose

5 жыл бұрын

As we speak about it: Why does the switch say 45, when the magazine holds 50 rounds ?!

@cottonballs185

5 жыл бұрын

@@Betterhose Because the user was expected to double tap and burst fire the weapon before switching it to party mode?

@TheTaternator24

5 жыл бұрын

That's how you reload

@BlueSam034

5 жыл бұрын

That's how you reload the gun 😀

I still enjoy coming back to this video every now and again just because "WOW", in all its forms, needs an occasional top-up.

that looks incredible especially the burst mode

“And low, the angels came down from the heavens with a G11 caseless rifle for Gun Jesus, and we saw that it was good”

@Kraakesolv

5 жыл бұрын

*lo

@Breakfast_and_Bullets

5 жыл бұрын

"And St. John Browning wept in Heaven, for man had forgotten the cases of brass. And the LORD saith unto him, 'John, fear not. For the Case will remain. Mankind has not yet understood the G11 which I have given unto them, and they shall abstain, and the Prophets which I have appointed at H&K will be shunned, and called as witches.'"

A G11?! It's a Christmas miracle! Thank you, Gun Jesus!

@Appalachia_Ape

5 жыл бұрын

On gun Jesus's birthday no less, what a selfless guy.

@frankandree62

5 жыл бұрын

gun jesus? spewed coffee everywhere. too funny. loved it.

@AshleyPomeroy

5 жыл бұрын

The actual Jesus may well have died for our sins, but he never showed us what the interior of a G11 looks like. Imagine if HK still had some ammunition lying around! Also, imagine if Jesus had had a G11. He would have crucified the Romans. For ten minutes, until the sand got in, at which point he would have a small club. I've just noticed, the dummy action has "jim's toy" engraved on the barrel at 27:33. I wonder who Jim was?

@Bonno95

5 жыл бұрын

I reckon Gun Jesus did this video as a birthday present to himself

@mrdarthbob4926

5 жыл бұрын

I came here to make the same comment. Well played sir, you beat me to it. Merry Chirstmas everybody!

I was at APG as part of the team that tested this beauty the major problems we had where with the ammunition not the weapon. It had severe fouling problems, otherwise I loved it very ergo dynamic and comfortable to shoot from any position .

Hi I've just finished watching your G11 it truly is one of your best videos and I've watched many in the past very interesting very informative even though it is history I honestly can see Chinese firearm engineers taking a keen interest in this revolutionary weapon system once again great video

The word "simple" doesn't translate well into German.

@Wolfspaule

4 жыл бұрын

Weil einfach einfach einfach ist.

@Ginkoman2

4 жыл бұрын

@@Wolfspaule warum einfach, wenns auch kompliziert geht?

@redacted.handle

4 жыл бұрын

Ginkoman2 nein

@xinlinwu4572

4 жыл бұрын

German engineering...

@mabrokenleg2388

4 жыл бұрын

@Gibbon submetatrivial

This is like the anti-AK in terms of design complexity

@Sammie1053

Жыл бұрын

The more I think about it the more accurate this is AK: heavy, relatively inaccurate, made of wood and milled/stamped metal, mostly unchanged since the 1940s, requires practically no maintenance and yet will likely still function at the heat death of the universe. G11: lightweight, relatively accurate, made of precision machined metal in a polymer housing, finished development in the late 80s, is designed to be borderline disposable in part because maintenance is damn near impossible so the service life is guaranteed to be short.

@TheRealL1R

Жыл бұрын

@@Sammie1053 >inaccurate weve got a fudd

@casual_speedrunner1482

Жыл бұрын

@@Sammie1053 >inaccurate Someone takes their gun knowledge from video games it seems?

@casual_speedrunner1482

Жыл бұрын

More like the anti-STEN. The AK actually has some pretty smart engineering and while simple enough that most people with cursory gun knowledge can maintain it, it's definitely got some complexity. Meanwhile, the STEN is just a fucking angry metal tube.

@gipsydangeramericasmonster9632

Жыл бұрын

@@casual_speedrunner1482 an angry metal tube that hurts, but does the job well. Still prefer the stg

28:05 the world's most complicated PEZ dispenser.

When serving in 1982/83 this was the talk of the town…..

"...plus, we fire the whole bullet. That's 65% more bullet per bullet." - Cave Johnson

@kurtheil4922

5 жыл бұрын

That is awesome

@kameronbrooks2372

5 жыл бұрын

Cave Johnson was one of the greatest minds of our time.

@Leftyotism

5 жыл бұрын

Durch Blut und Eisen, lol

@darthXreven

5 жыл бұрын

"...I'm gonna burn your house down......with the lemons!" -Cave Johnson

@darthXreven

5 жыл бұрын

@Dan The Man if you;re a gamer play Portal 2 if not.... it's a reference to something a character said in the game

I like how the RCMP in Canada specifically bans the H&K G11 by name despite the fact only a 1000 exist and they're all locked up in a warehouse in Germany.

@joeydubois

3 жыл бұрын

trudeaus a muffin

@sErgEantaEgis12

3 жыл бұрын

@@joeydubois It was like this before him.

@MarkLaLone

3 жыл бұрын

@@sErgEantaEgis12 he's still a muffin tho

@morgs456

3 жыл бұрын

Yea I know we will never encounter one and the chances of encountering one with ammo are even slimmer But *IT LOOKS SCARY*

@joshuahadams

3 жыл бұрын

Might be because you pretty much have to fill out a novel’s worth of paperwork to get a regular automatic here. Throw in this with it’s weird ammo you pretty much would need to either get mailed in from H&K, if they still have the hardware to make it, or make it yourself, which would probably be even more paperwork to get caseless ammo production going. I think they said screw it and ignored it so they don’t have to go through all the paperwork.

Pretty decent for fighting Spetsnaz in the rooftops of Kowloon, and I say this as someone who primarily runs Kiparis/SVD whenever possible.

This firearm looks so futuristic. It looks like it can take out those evil robots from Terminator

*G11 briefing* “Alright engineers, take everything you know” “ *AND THROW IT IN THE GARBAGE* ”

@EzraMerr

5 жыл бұрын

Hahahaha

@Panga_

5 жыл бұрын

More like: "apply everything you know at the same time" but yeah, both ways end up at the g11

@planescaped

5 жыл бұрын

"Take everything you know..." ... ... "And?" "And what?

@AdamWhistle1

5 жыл бұрын

To get this working, they kind of needed all those parts.

@sidewalks29

5 жыл бұрын

If I have a Country I will pick up this a make a Awesome 25/27/30mm AA cannon for our Troops.

German soldier here, Two years ago, i walked into The main armory of Our mountain warfare school, Had to Pick up some stuff, and my jaw nearly dropped when i saw they Had a g11 there, i talked to the armorer there and he let me take a look at it, i didnt dare to try to dissaemble it, But i think it is complete with The Guts judging from the weight, the gun was left over from troop trials in the mountains, that was a pretty awesome day for me, Oh and it was the version with The thinner handguard Ian showed in This Video shortly

@markknife1

5 жыл бұрын

Someone Bring this guy up!

@jowaru5545

5 жыл бұрын

Danke, dass du unserem Land mit deinem Dienst die Möglichkeit gibst unsere Ideale zu verteidigen. Ihr Leute von der Truppe kriegt viel zu wenig Respekt für euren Mut!

@Tomlis96

5 жыл бұрын

@@jowaru5545 Da schließe ich mich an. Vielen Dank für deinen Dienst @john doe

@richarddo7881

5 жыл бұрын

You lucky bastard :)

@armedmage

5 жыл бұрын

Know that at that moment, Otto Von Bismarck was smiling down at you from Valhalla raising his beer stein in respect.

Cleaning this piece of art would be a pain in the brain, but I admire the rifle. German engineers gone full nuts. When I recieved my service rifle H&K G36 K2 made in 2006. It was given to me in a box never used. I remember that factory smell. I felt like I'm living in Star Wars. The old G36 was allready ahead of the time but the ones made in 2006 for Spanish and Latvian army were way better. We had to count aproximetely how much rounds we shoot because after 50000 rounds the barrel must be changed. I shot a lot, but not a single time it did jam. Even wet sandy muddy dirty just give it some oil and it works. Of course after every exercise We did clean the rifles til late evening and only after We did eat and sleep.

17:48 😂❤ I was turning blue in the face from laughing so hard at this action reveal. Holy christ, do I take this to a weaponsmith or a watch repair shop to get this worked on???

An engineer’s nightmare: creating a perfectly good product, everything is looking good, users are happy, and then politics ruins it all.

@calvinhuddleston576

3 жыл бұрын

I think it's an engineer's nightmare for other reasons

@ellwill5709

3 жыл бұрын

So basically, every manufacturer within the US military industrial complex that has been screwed out of big contracts by Lockheed before

@matthiasbreiter4177

3 жыл бұрын

The rifle simply wasn't needed anymore. It was officially adopted but never purchased - because of a lack of purpose. With the end of the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc the entire reason for this rifle to exist just vanished.

@decus9544

3 жыл бұрын

Actually very common.

@alfonzo_

3 жыл бұрын

@@matthiasbreiter4177 so, politics. damn politicians ending wars so we can't have cool rifles

When the G11 fails in the battlefield you simple pull it apart and use the built-in metal club (21:43) to eliminate the enemy

@nichevo1

5 жыл бұрын

That's not a club, that's a Terminator's left arm!

@yangcheng-jyun8542

5 жыл бұрын

I think disassembling even AK's bolt in combat situation is rather impractical......most of the malfunction on G11 seems can easily be solved by working the action

@thkarape

5 жыл бұрын

It kinda looks like one of the engine-based weapons from FFXV tbqh.

@nichevo1

5 жыл бұрын

@@yangcheng-jyun8542 I think it's highly necessary that they improvise a second chamber rammer in the detachable grip clean tool. It's totally foreseeable that there will be a gun that's been immersed for a week, or the magazine was or the stripper clip was or the soldier was who was wearing it, plus maybe heat and humidity and chemicals, and somehow or other there's always going to be a chamber that has to be cleared properly meaning mucking out a half sodden half deflagrated chunk of sensitive plastic probably still smoking and burning hot. The onboard chamber rammer/ejector solution better be *solid.* Even so some dogface would have it to do. If that entire cylinder containing the chamber could be QD/ejected from the action that could be a quick field serviceable repair that would save the gun/return the shooter to action. How deep is the data that these rifles are fit for purpose? German procurement thorough? Honest? Without bias? Like or unlike ours? 😇🙈🙉🙊

@collinmclaren6608

5 жыл бұрын

Looks like something a holy angel would wield in a war against heaven and hell.

If have watched this video a couple of times by now, but it's the first time that I noticed that the dummy action has Jim's toy written on the recoil spring housing

What an absolute piece of art. Clearly watch makers were involved.

@vksasdgaming9472

22 күн бұрын

Kolibri (world's smallest centerfire cartridge and gun) was made by watchmaker.

This video made me feel like a dog watching the tv, things are happening and I’m excited but I don’t understand why............

@devilbuster20xx37

4 жыл бұрын

You basically described me watching Evangelion for the first time.

@damienairalay552

4 жыл бұрын

@@devilbuster20xx37 so true, I had to rewatch the End of Evangelion a couple times before I figured out what the hell actually, happened, lol. That being said it is one of my favorite animes,

@mercuric5-nitrotetrazole678

4 жыл бұрын

Arthur Mota lol won’t expect to meet Eva fan in the comment section of a gun channel lol

@damienairalay552

4 жыл бұрын

@@mercuric5-nitrotetrazole678 I'm just a history nut, and a fan of anime, metal, and...browsing the internet at 2 am. Lol.

@damienairalay552

4 жыл бұрын

I been a fan of this channel for years, and it was a good comparison, lol

Caseless ammunition always makes me think of Cave Johnsons line in portal about the turrets "it fires the whole bullet, that's 65% more bullet per bullet".

@JETWTF

5 жыл бұрын

You forgot... "This is Cave Johnson signing out...….. Caroline.. where's my....."

I remember using this gun in Delta Force: Landwarrior on PC way back around 2002ish. I would select it the majority of the time because it looked like a crazy future gun I was used to seeing in comic books.

@RongleBringer

10 ай бұрын

I remember it had pretty much zero recoil in that game which was at least half accurate. Couldn't put a silencer on it though

@jameskazd9951

6 ай бұрын

@@RongleBringer considering how the recoil system works, a silencer could cause issues

I think Wesley Snipes found this in the museum in "Demolition Man." "AccMag is now activated."

We taught a watch how to shoot bullets

@tammysilverwolf1085

5 жыл бұрын

Comment of the day. hahaha XD

@ongjunhong

5 жыл бұрын

"No. You see, what the Germans did to make the G11 was to corral a Rolex and a steam locomotive into a hotel room, and have one knock up the other. Then, when the locomotive gave birth, the Germans taught the child mechanical engineering and had it join the boy scouts. And thus, the Germans got the G11."

@colsoncustoms8994

5 жыл бұрын

Is this really your life man, spamming youtube comments on Christmas? @Kacper 89

@jero37

5 жыл бұрын

Imagine CooCoo Clock furniture for this thing!

@bogdanbogdanoff5164

5 жыл бұрын

...and it's wonderful

Field strip procedure: super simple Detailed strip procedure: throw it away and get a new gun

@edwardwood6532

4 жыл бұрын

It works for Apple.

@russell7489

4 жыл бұрын

Detailed strip procedure during fire fight for ANY gun - bend over and kiss you ..... goodbye

@edwardwood6532

4 жыл бұрын

@@russell7489 Is there field strip strip procedure for a gun during a gunfight where you can come out of it ok?

@tieck4408

4 жыл бұрын

Clockworks, typewriters, etc you can just dip in solvents for effective cleaning. Maintenance might actually be easier.

@jacobp.2024

4 жыл бұрын

They should make a tediore version

25:23 "It's complicated, it's insanely complicated" As an engineer, I agree

@tumetal

4 ай бұрын

"As an engineer, I ...." (nobody cares).

Dayum this g11 variant is amazing! I like how the designers really thought about everything

In addition, at every full hour, three birds come out of the front of the gun and do a loop around the spare magazines

@corwinconnell8500

3 жыл бұрын

goddammit thats too funny

@DanielSan1776

3 жыл бұрын

That’s a good name I approve

@ninjaman815

3 жыл бұрын

Lol

@boymahina123

3 жыл бұрын

lmfao

@torkdork69

3 жыл бұрын

That's good. And instead of saying cuu cuuwww, they say pew pew.

"The recoil in the three-round burst is not felt by the weapon's user until after the third round has left the chamber." That's my favourite feature of this gun.

@Ze_N00B

3 жыл бұрын

"That's 200% more bullet, per bullet."

@pacmanosaurus1971

3 жыл бұрын

You will never feel recoil if you dont shoot three shots then😉

@noobface66

3 жыл бұрын

@@Ze_N00B See? Just try getting to that cradle now. You can't.

@WitchyLadyLily

3 жыл бұрын

I think Bungie needs to buff it a bit, but I still love the ornaments for it.

@mahoganyballs2296

3 жыл бұрын

Volume of fire is the whole point of the weapon.

I have been watching your videos for years!!! As a fellow gunsmith, you data and knowledge has been an absolute treat! Thank you!

came to see it in the range. Thanks

In this guns's case, there is no case I hereby rest my case

@kylefitz.2639

4 жыл бұрын

can I steal your case?

@corsicacommander8371

4 жыл бұрын

Cute

@Ektalon

4 жыл бұрын

Jai ShriRam Get off my case, man.

@TestarossaF110

4 жыл бұрын

what case?

@icantthink

4 жыл бұрын

I had to say something ... Just in case.

G11 Mud test when?

@tentacles10000

5 жыл бұрын

No.. just no

@bloodking73

5 жыл бұрын

@@tentacles10000 yes

@thcleaner22

5 жыл бұрын

We need to know

@habernack2932

5 жыл бұрын

I am pretty sure that it would do great in a mud test, since no empty cases need to be ejected, there is almost no way how mud could enter the inside of the gun.

@krystina662

5 жыл бұрын

From what I heard it did well during the tests Also: see comment above

My cousin in Oberndorf Germany was the R&D chief at H&K. He designed this weapon and demonstrated it to the US Army, German army and others . Unfortunately right about the time this was available for manufacture the Soviet Union broke up and all the militaries cut back on spending so it was never produced in quantities and sold.

@transgenderedmuhammad8817

10 ай бұрын

Bullshit

@PawPawPandas

8 ай бұрын

Yeah, I also watched this video

That sqeaky pitch voice is literally killed it.

The best part is that H&K have _themselves_ referred to it as "Kraut Space Magic"

@Aereton

5 жыл бұрын

Keep the design but make it a futuristic impulse rifle and you've got the perfect weapon for a space faring scifi fascist regime. kinda like the Helghast in Killzone lol

@TotallyNotAFox

5 жыл бұрын

@@Aereton More like scifi communist, looking at our current government ^^

@naggie6358

5 жыл бұрын

@@Aereton behold, ladies and gentlemen of the internet, the simplest and fastest way to show that you can't win an argument

@PedroThePanda64

5 жыл бұрын

If only it was named the H&K KSM

@TRak598

5 жыл бұрын

Pretty much every nation enrolled in World Wars got a half assed codename. OFC Germany also got the whole shame of the war crimes commited in WW2, but one thing is not dependant on the other.

That time the Bundeswehr almost had to draft every master watchsmith in the country to be field armorers. Jawohl!

@TheOsfania

5 жыл бұрын

Dan Schneider I don't think that means what you think it means.

@dankovac1609

5 жыл бұрын

@@TheOsfania yeeah..

@danschneider9921

5 жыл бұрын

@@TheOsfania it's meant to be humorous. Thanks for noticing.

@ragnar338

5 жыл бұрын

One step from translation to rotation - noooooo! Could never work reliably! Please do not trust combustion or steam engines for transportation and step away from these revolvers - noone could ever understand the inner works of these contraptions :)

@danschneider9921

5 жыл бұрын

Only in a KZread comments section could one word in a post meant to be tongue and cheek and poke a good fun (and actually has nothing to do with the main point if the comment) could get taken so seriously and debated so hotly. Jesus H...

"Is this gonna be a standup fight, sir, or another bug hunt?"

“Here at HK, shoot the whole bullet, that’s 66% more bullet!”

"listen recruits! we're about to start weapons training, but first a 3-year course in clock-smithing"

They should make the transparent version of this. It'll be brilliant

@anamusingidiot2565

3 жыл бұрын

“It’s a watch _and_ an assault rifle!”

@1TieDye1

3 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZIOr0cmuj9jUZ9Y.html

@francescoguzzetta

3 жыл бұрын

Swatch is making them

@TCIR

3 жыл бұрын

Just go to Home Depot and get some clear paint. SMH 🤦

@mostlymessingabout

3 жыл бұрын

@@1TieDye1 thanks man. That's amazing

We are just the best^^ great wishes from Germany

Am I the only one that can't help but remember Wesley Snipes in Demolition Man shooting this with a huge smile on his face.. Every time I see this weapon.

@darkchild130

11 ай бұрын

You are not the only one