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Originally Posted by StainlessSteelCynic
Ah, yes that makes sense. Thanks for the information 
Please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong but I was of the understanding that IWK had teamed with Mauser for the G11 project? |
The Mauser G11 was based on a 1974 IWK patent (I'm a little fuzzy on exactly how they were related, but I believe IWK owned Mauser as the successor company to DWM). The year before the Mauser G11 was tested, IWK had made their own rifle for the project, which had three barrels vertically aligned and staggered. It fed caseless ammunition from a 51-round drum, and fired either the barrels either sequentially or simultaneously, but with no capability for fully-automatic fire. The
US patent dates to 1976 and has expired. Apparently it was very heavy (probably unsurprising for a triple-barrel rifle), and there's not a whole lot of information commonly available on it.