Comments by "Muck006" (@Muck006) on "Kraut Space Magic: the H&K G11" video.

  1. "Overdoing things" IS our one and only german character flaw.
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  2. I bet this gun could be overengineered some more with some watercooling for the mechanical parts/barrel ... so it can fire longer ... and a tea-maker attachment for the british army.
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  3. I read about this concept 30 years ago and thought it was stupid back then already ... even before starting to study material sciences ... which gives me now an even better understanding that it is completely bonkers/impractical. All you need to look at is "little plastic cartriges to hold the ammunition" ... which is not going to work well if you are outside on the battlefield.
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  4. They might be running around with them ... but wont have any ammo. That is the biggest problem: SPECIAL AMMO ... which makes it expensive to use.
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  5. CDs? Are you living in the 90s? There is loads of space for an MP3 player in the front ... and maybe the speakers in the back "package"?
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  6. Additionally I would like to point out the number of moving/rotating parts in the "watch mechanism" ... which will need to be well oiled or they will suffer a loss of precision and/or safety through use. Making a super complex machine means that more parts can break down AND these parts cant be fixed as easily/in the field.
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  7.  @p_serdiuk  Just look at how thin these magazine strips are ... they will EASILY get bent out of shape ... not the ones in the gun but any spares that you are handling (maybe you drop it and so on). Polymer magazines have relatively thick wall shape AND are relatively wide - compared to these "shell-width" magazines on this gun, which makes regular magazines much more resistant to being bent as compared to these long strip magazines. Its basic geometry.
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  8. Not with the plastic boxes ... that would be a big problem too, because what happens if these "empty boxes" get hit (or you drop the gun and they crack)? Do they have enough strength to continue to perform?
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  9. Caseless ammo has to "stay in shape" all of its own, must not "glue together with the rounds left and right of it" (remember the flat surfaces), be used fully without residue and stay useable for a decent bit of time ... I wonder if you have to refill those magazines with special tools too, so you dont squish any "cartridge". Its like the King Tiger in WWII: it is brilliantly effective, BUT the USA could build NINE SHERMANS for the price of one King Tiger ...
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  10.  @Enthropical_Thunder  The ammunition in itself is far too problematic ... just imagine magazines being shaken a bit and these strips being bent. Also: do you think you can just refill these mags with your hands? I dont think so ... because you might damage the caseless cartridge. This all raises the price of the ammo far too much and makes it too complicated to use. It is a basic principle ... you can either have "a beautiful Panther Tank" OR "several T34" for the same amount of money ... and this tells it all. https://youtu.be/p5fEsNwHSDs
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  11. Overengineering works ... if you are NOT in a war and basically have unlimited money to spend on things. Otherwise it is bad ... and a sign of THE one character flaw of us germans: overdoing it ... which we also do with our norms and the EU now.
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  12.  @nejlaakyuz4025  Nah ... not the theoretical ones ... practical physicists, the ones who know how a screwdriver works.
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  13. If you actually want a gun for space (vacuum) this seems like a brilliant concept because the recoil is "filtered" by the gun AND there arent any empty cartridges flying around ... however ... there are loads of problems with the materials, because in space there is no oxygen to create a tiny oxidised layer on a piece of metal ... and if you have pure metal on metal they will "fuse together", which would kill the whole complicated mechanism.
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  14. Just look at the Starfighter / F-104... which was DESIGNED as a perfectly good FIGHTER jet ... but the BUREAUCRATS of Germany demanded it be modified to be a bomber as well (they didnt want to buy fighters AND bombers, so "one size fits all" was implemented) ... which resulted in the flight characteristics being altered to make it a DEADLY plane to fly. Out of the 900+ planes they had 292 crashed, killing 118 pilots.
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