West Germany's wooden space gun: the H&K G11
Royal Armouries
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12m
This week's episode combines one of the world's most recognisable and elusive firearms with an interesting idiosyncrasy of firearms design: the wooden mock-up. No, we don't have a real G11 (Bundeswehr if you're watching, you know where we are), Jonathan examines this sales replica, which is an accessioned and important item of our collection in it's own right.
Read more about this weapon here: https://royalarmouries.org/collection/object/object-270223
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