Not often i see a parody about something that is yet to be a reality. Plasma rifles that will draw whole blood...

Good, but very startling.

In 1990 when Germany reunified, the advance HK G-11 caseless rifle was shelved due to reunification costs. At that time, THAT was the most advanced rifle in the world with a cylinder breech that rotated and fired caseless ammo. The German soldier would have carried 450 rounds on him and it would still be lighter than lesser amounts carried by the US and Russians. The G-11 had a 50 rd mag mounted on top of the rifle with 2 aux. 50 rd mags up to= 150 rds available on the rifle plus 6 more mags for 300 more rds. The gun initially fired at 2200 rpm and cycled down. The newer clearvue mags were just coming into use and so the German soldier could see the colored spring tell him how close he was to running out w/o need of a vunerable digital rd counter that was considered. The carrying handle and scope were one unit as well and it even had room for a bayonet! But since that was shelved by the early 1990s, work was underway with the G-36 which led to the US/German XM-8 and then HK 416/417 for SFs. Rheinmetall makes a range of weapons but delved into plasma research with the taser weapon and then decided to try to make a rifle and possibly even future AA defense weapons or vehicle-mounted guns. Other German studies deal with flechette-firing weapons and polyslug throwers!. The G-11 SF version for those that have never seen it: http://remtek.com/arms/hk/mil/g11/g11.gif

German energy weapons atarted in WW2 with the Flugscheiben (disc craft). The Donar KSK was one of them: http://discaircraft.greyfalcon.us/Donar.html