The g11 is exactly what I'm talking about. Thats the clockwork military rifle with the stick mags in the front end right?

Gotcha.

Yes

Too much Coke in the engineers brains

Hk gang

It was the 80s

Hk sucks gang

Like I think you could make the argument that the 416 is like too complicated and expensive n shit

But it was designed to do some very specific things normie ars don't do

Shooting while full of water without grenading being a big one

As long as you don't need a bunch of proprietary or oddball tools to work on it and the gun doesn't require a mechanical engineering degree to comprehend, it's fine. QA autism is welcome in some cases imo.

Na I mean no German gun I've fucked with was too autistic

Cept maybe some weird Walther shit

Needing a screwdriver thing to get the slide of is gay as fuck

Is the main difference with the 416 that it's piston driven?

Yeah

And pistons don't get full of water and detonate the gun

Also generally overgassed as shit

For reliability

Full auto is like submachinegun fast because of that

And generally significantly harder recoiling then a normal ar

But that makes it more reliable

It's all a compromise, not like the Germans have some special sauce or anything, they just tweaked the design and changed up the compromises a bit

What happens with a regular gas system? Steam explosion in the tube?

Hydrostatic shock

Water is incompressible

When a fuck ton of gas pressure tries to compress it your gun pops

The barrel or the gas tube?

Gas tube and/or reciever

https://youtu.be/AGwkHktkTxU

Here the hk tests

Gas tube i get but the reciever? Damn. The ejection port doesn't provide a suitable enough vent?

I think it's just the velocity/pressure of the gas my man

Like you're already in an overpressure situation because of water in the barrel

And iirc the reciever explosion was only when they fired the gun completely underwater

But I haven't watched the vid in a hot sec

Wow. I know hydrostaic shock is no joke but I though the gaping hole in the side of the receiver would provide enough of a pressure relief.

I mean it's not open all the time

And like the gas port area is gonna be full of water

And then it's getting a shit ton of pressure all at once

So it the bcg that pops, just takes the receiver with it