Weapons Timelines for the Twilight War

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I also read that the thawing of east west relations lead to budget cuts that buried the G-11 project .Technically it was pretty much ready to go .In a T2K world the same budget trouble might also end it though - if the cost of changing the old system with the new one seems to high in war time it would be shelved ?

Originally Posted by Raellus

According to the book Public Enemies (on which the film of the same name is based), the Thompson was used in some numbers by many of the bank robbing gangs (Dillinger's, Floyds, Nelsons, Bonnie & Clyde, etc.) and the fledgling FBI. The book was well researched and written and I have no cause to doubt what the author described is not accurate.

I agree with Horse Soldier about the AKMR. You might as well manufacture a new, updgraded AKM than rechamber existing stocks of 7.62mm S AKs. In fact, the Russians have been doing so since the early '90s. It's called the AK-103.

Once again, everything that I've read suggests that W. Germany was ready to go ahead with the G11 program right up until the point where the Berlin Wall came down. The economic burden of absorbing the former E. Germany, coupled with the disappearance of the threat posed by the old USSR/Warsaw Pact, led to the cancellation of the relatively expensive G11. Since the reunified Germany still had a need for a new, standard assault rifle, HK developed the 5.56mm G36.

So, in the T2K v1.0 timeline, the G11 would have entered full production for front-line W. German units, while the G41 would have entered production for reservist units.