Octopus Overlords

Paingod wrote: ↑Mon Jan 21, 2019 10:10 am It would be fascinating to watch a man try and duplicate that.

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.

Paingod wrote: ↑Mon Jan 28, 2019 9:14 am While it's fun to listen to - that seems like poor writing. That's all from one series/show/movie...

Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Mon Jan 28, 2019 10:32 am

Paingod wrote: ↑Mon Jan 28, 2019 9:14 am While it's fun to listen to - that seems like poor writing. That's all from one series/show/movie...

It's sixteen made-for-tv films. If they can only get 80 seconds out of 20+ hours of content, I'd say that's a pretty low threshold.

Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Mon Jan 28, 2019 10:32 am

Paingod wrote: ↑Mon Jan 28, 2019 9:14 am While it's fun to listen to - that seems like poor writing. That's all from one series/show/movie...

It's sixteen made-for-tv films. If they can only get 80 seconds out of 20+ hours of content, I'd say that's a pretty low threshold.

GreenGoo wrote: ↑Mon Jan 28, 2019 11:37 am

Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Mon Jan 28, 2019 10:32 am

Paingod wrote: ↑Mon Jan 28, 2019 9:14 am While it's fun to listen to - that seems like poor writing. That's all from one series/show/movie...

It's sixteen made-for-tv films. If they can only get 80 seconds out of 20+ hours of content, I'd say that's a pretty low threshold.

Sixteen identical made for tv films.

Kraken wrote: ↑Thu Feb 14, 2019 3:27 am I remember the original video and I know who Weezer is. Whatever else is there sailed right past me.

"If you set up a row of dominoes as a timeline of history from the Big Bang to now, and had each domino represent 1 million years it would stretch over 300 meters long. I know because thats what I did for this video. The universe is very old."

Brian wrote: ↑Tue Jan 22, 2019 9:25 pm .
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Very interesting video on the H&K G11.