Ahhh, okay. Thanks again for information
So much of this knowledge is getting lost over the years, I've seen various books that claim to be the last word on firearms yet they are little more than an update of another author's work.
The author of the new book does very little extra research and just builds on the knowledge readily available in various other firearms books.
So in the case of the G11 project, it's only because the wikipedia entry was updated a few years ago to include some small information about the development of the project, that people even know of the Mauser submission.
I've found the same situation occurs with books on armoured vehicles, if the author of a new vehicle book is unaware of a particular vehicle, it never gets mentioned simply because they do not do any real research and use previously published books as their research source.
Okay, rant over
