• LocalOaf [they/them, ze/hir]
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    2 months ago

    Contemporary of the G11 program? A caseless sidearm seems more practical than a rifle they were trying to make into a multirole service weapon imo, way less chance of ammo cook-off

  • alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    Do you have any more information about this? I always found it weird nobody developed caseless ammo for handguns, where size of the cartridge dictates the size and shape of the grip.

    • Tervell [he/him]
      hexagon
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      edit-2
      2 months ago

      The only thing I could find was https://guns.fandom.com/wiki/Heckler_%26_Koch_NBW

      I assume caseless is just too niche for pistols - even if you developed it, without a major military adopting it, it just wouldn't have enough traction for anyone to switch from what they're already using it, and for militaries pistols are a relatively low priority weapon so they wouldn't bother with anything particularly groundbreaking