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I've been following the development of the new Individual Combat Weapon in current development. XM29 Integrated Air Burst Weapon and the Lightweight Assault Rifle that is meant to be phased in first. Both are neat and look to provide some really impressive features, but I personally had hoped for a large step forward in the actual round used in the rifle itself. Specifically, I figured a caseless ammunition would be standard issue sometime in the next decade, but that does not appear to be the case. HK had a preproduction model that went through testing in the Advanced Cobat Rifle program in 90's. It has some incredible features including a jaw dropping cyclic rate of 2000 rounds per minute when firing in a 3 round burst with no recoil until the final round is sent. This is due to a sliding breach/magazine/barrel system. The breach is a rotating assembly that is fed from horizontal stack of 45 bullets on the top of the rifle it self. Believe it or not, but an extra two magazines are stored on either side of the main magazine, yet the whole assembly (with 145 bullets) weighs in at less than 10 lbs. A final prototype was rummored to have 3 90 round magazines.
More info on the HK G11:
http://remtek.com/arms/hk/mil/g11/g11.htm
http://remtek.com/arms/hk/mil/g11/caseless.htm
http://www.hkpro.com/g11.htm
What do you guys think? Not likely to ever be deployed?
More info on the HK G11:
http://remtek.com/arms/hk/mil/g11/g11.htm
http://remtek.com/arms/hk/mil/g11/caseless.htm
http://www.hkpro.com/g11.htm
What do you guys think? Not likely to ever be deployed?