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Originally Posted by Legbreaker
By back burner I mean that rolling out the G11 would have taken precedence over the G41. The G41 would have only had to wait a year or three though while the G11 logitistical trail and retraining was sorted out.
Introduction of two weapons systems on such a wide scale would be very difficult if done concurrently with each other.
Here in Australia, the F88 Steyr AUG took several years to transition to, and that was just one weapon and a much smaller military than Germany.
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Even in the US Military it has taken a long time to replace many M16s rifles with the M4 Carbines. Granted that not all M16s were suppose to be replaced, but it still was on going process in after 9-11 that got sped up a tad bit.