I just don't see that happening for T2K.
The F88 Steyr was issued well before the G11 was to have been to the Germans. The GL attachment for the Steyr AUG took a few years to develop and we already had set a precedent of underbarrel GLs by our earlier adoption of the M16/M203 combination. I'm not sure the Germans had bothered with the concept and therefore probably wouldn't have had the same drive to develop a system for the G11 in time for issue in T2K.
Take a look at the scale of issue for the US forces prior to 2000 IRL. Then look at what it is today. I'm not just talking GLs here though but all the additional bit and peices which now seem to be standard issue on almost every US rifle. It's really only the last decade where a bog standard rifle has been seen as just not good enough.
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