Explore the fascinating evolution of caseless ammunition - from WWII experiments to modern innovations like the G11. Why hasn't this game-changing tech replaced traditional bullets?

One of the biggest challenges that the G11 faced was its radical caseless ammunition which attempted to offer shorter and lighter cartridges compared to traditional ammunition. This was done by ...

The West German army tested the G11 extensively in the late 1980s and was considering adopting it and its caseless ammo to replace its 7.62mm assault rifles. But then the Cold War ended, Germany was ...

An additional benefit with going with caseless ammunition was the elimination of additional openings for contamination. Lacking an ejection port, the G11's chamber remains relatively sterile.

something that could only be achieved using a caseless ammunition design. The G11 was one design way ahead of its time. Kyle Mizokami is a defense and national-security writer based in San ...

Editor’s note: this post first appeared in April 2018 Decades before the U.S. military transitioned away from the M16 assault rifle in favor of the lightweight M4 carbine, the Army eyed an ...

For about a decade the US Marine Corps and US Army have been seeking caseless ammunition or polymer (instead of brass) cased ammunition that would work reliably in combat and be much (30-37 percent) ...

It fired a unique type of lightweight caseless ammo at a rate of 33 bullets per second ... Despite these qualities, the G11 was a complicated, over-engineered gun requiring a special armorer ...

Join our squadron. By encasing its ammunition in a chemical propellant rather than a typical brass casing, the G11 was more accurate, efficient, and potentially deadly than any rifle of its time.

This is where the G11 comes into its own as a revolutionary ... extracting and ejecting, by going with a caseless ammunition, where the propellant, rather than held in a metal casing behind ...