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Originally Posted by Legbreaker
With regard to 4.7mm cls production, should the G11 have been fielded as I believe it would have been in V1.0, production of ammunition would have been a high priority and numerous facilities set up to do it. By the late 80's/early 90's all the ammo problems had been solved - the specs could have been distributed to the production facilities and within a short time hundreds of thousands of prepackaged rounds churned out for military consumption.
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Yes, but after the TDM, production of the more complex and tricky to manufacture caseless ammo would have all but ceased entirely, and the G11 would rapidly be abandoned in favor of old stockpiles of G3s and more recently produced G41s.
IRL, during the planned production of the G11, the G41 was to be produced as well, to equip territorial and reserve formations, while the G3 was to be phased out of service entirely (although I'm sure a few thousand would be kept on hand for use as designated marksman's rifles or for use by special forces).
In the Twilight War timeline (v1.0, of course), the G11 would probably become an expensive club in early-to-mid '98.
Then there's the matter of former DDR troops. How many would retain their East German-made AKMs/AK-74 clones? How many would be equipped with G41s or G3s? But we've discussed/debated that elsewhere.