5 Things You Don't Know About: Sniper Rifles

one shot one kill that's the sniper model but no matter how good the shooter this type of deadly precision is only possible because of specially modified weapons this is five things you don't know about sniper rifles the m107 was adopted not as an anti-personnel weapon but as an anti material weapon and that penetrating capability comes from the size and their power of the 50 caliber cartridge now the 50 caliber bullet also known as the NATO 12.7 by 99 millimeter cartridge is a 660 grain bullet that's 660 grain bullet dwarfs the 7.62 by 51 millimeter bullet that's fired from weapons like the m-40 the m24 or the m240 machine gun and so the m107 delivers a lot of punch for the dollar dating back to the war in Vietnam the Marine Corps made a decision to go with a bolt-action sniper rifle the m14 this is a rifle that's based on the Remington Model 700 short action chambered in the 7.62 by 51 millimeter NATO rifle cartridge that was also fired by the m60 machine gun now the m-40 rifle is very similar in many ways to the Army's in 24 sniper rifle but the only big difference is this the m-40 is based on what they calls the short action Remington Model 700 the army opted to go instead with the long action so that the army of the flexibility of using either the 7.62 by 51 millimeter cartridge or the more powerful 300 Winchester Magnum the war in Afghanistan very quickly taught us a lesson and that was that we needed more firearms that were capable of delivering accurate fire beyond 600 metres to meet this need the US military pulled out old versions of the m14 rifle the m14 rifle which had been developed in the 1950s which saw combat in Vietnam a very effective and rugged system a system that adapted itself quite effectively to the sniper world with a completely adjustable McMillan stock mounted with either Bausch and Lomb or Stokes that weapon was brought back into service as the m25 sniper rifle when the mark 12 special purpose rifle went into service it was the only semi-automatic sniper rifle firing the 5.56 by 45 millimeter rifle cartridge no other sniper rifle and US military service was firing that cartridge so the mark 12 gave a sniper the capability to put war rounds downrange with great accuracy then they would if they were armed with one of the manually operated bolt-action rifles firing the 7.62 by 51 millimeter rifle cartridge the m110 semi-automatic sniper system is the development of really two big changes in the US military on the philosophical side is the emergence of the squad designated marksman in other words one marksman in a standard MP 3 squad not functioning as an autonomous sniper but someone within the squad that's capable of delivering more accurate firepower on this technical side the army responds by developing the m110 system and the m110 really stands as something unique in US military history we've had semi-automatic sniper rifles before in the past though these semi-automatic sniper rifles were really just modifications of existing service rifles we took a service rifle off the rack put a scope on it and that was to function as an adequate sniper rifle they had some shortcomings because of that the m110 on the other hand was imagined from the ground up as being a sniper rifle system although the US is currently at the cutting edge of innovation in terms of snipers and sniper systems we weren't the country that developed sniping is a formalized military skill do you know the country that was if so post your answer online or reach out to us with Twitter hashtag five inches

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Length: 5min 41sec (341 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 09 2015