MR. Dead wrote:
It currently is more on side of being a crew served weapon, due to its lack of quick mobility. I would never have been able to mak a rush with the thing. It is a LONG ways from practical deployment.
Better to develop out the caseless weapon and mount a 40 MM autoloader on it, 5 or 6 rounds on the 40 MM.
totally, i'm not sure where firearms can go after this point other than caseless, althought it's as radical a step as from shot/charge muzzleloading to self fully incased bullet breachloading rifles and will be resisted as they were, although in this case we have the G11, a perfectly servicable gun, just need to re-train everyone on how to use it, hardly a big shift seeing as bullpup guns (yes, i'm on about those again) are in front line use with a number of armies with no big trouble, it loads differently but otherwise is still a rifle, if ppl can get around the odd look of the G11 then it'll be great
as for the OICW, as a scaled up crew served gun it would be great, slap it onto a vehicle platform in place of a SAW or 40mm GL and you'd be laughing, longer barrel for the rifle/mg and bigger caliber for the grenade launcher and a stable platform to fire from and carry and maintain the thing, have it as the medium between firing an M16 out of the door and slapping a full powered turret on top with a firecontrol and targeting computer, also you can dismount it for ground use, but as a support weapon (thing tripod mounted MGs) not an assualt weapon
on a side note, 1 in 1 tracer looks pretty fired at night, a kilometer of red streaks lighting up the sky and pattering onto a target is a great sight on a rainy night