New .50 Rifle

Mantisking · Unread post by **Mantisking** » Sat Apr 16, 2005 5:22 pm

I stumbled over this over on the Rifts board. I have no idea what it was doing over there, but it's still cool.

Jefffar · Unread post by **Jefffar** » Sat Apr 16, 2005 6:33 pm

Yes, yes it is.

Anti-materiel rifles are one of my favourites.

Guest · Unread post by **Guest** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 4:04 pm

ash_wednesday wrote:My..those are BIG bullets...

I take it you've never seen 20mm rounds.

Jefffar · Unread post by **Jefffar** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 5:58 pm

Or an 18lber howitzer shell.

Guest · Unread post by **Guest** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 10:29 am

Jefffar wrote:Yes, yes it is.

Anti-materiel rifles are one of my favourites.

Get WOTC's D20 Modern Weapons Locker, it's got several pages of Anti-materiel rifles to play with.

Jefffar · Unread post by **Jefffar** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 6:26 pm

Had it for several months allready.

Guest · Unread post by **Guest** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 8:12 pm

Jefffar wrote:Had it for several months allready.

Don't you love how the M16A4 has a picture of the AK-74U?

Guest · Unread post by **Guest** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 9:12 pm

shortstop4313 wrote:Wow, bad editting isn't limited to Palladium.

No one ever said it was. FASA was notorious for it's problems as well. Several of the other companies out there don't do so hot either.

Jefffar · Unread post by **Jefffar** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 9:27 pm

Yeah, most RPG companies start out (and stay) pretty small, so they don't have the cash for a professional editor or continuity checker.

Guest · Unread post by **Guest** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 9:31 pm

Jefffar wrote:Yeah, most RPG companies start out (and stay) pretty small, so they don't have the cash for a professional editor or continuity checker.

Or a spell checker or a grammar checker, or a fact checker.

Jefffar · Unread post by **Jefffar** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 9:34 pm

Or moderators.

Guest · Unread post by **Guest** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 9:39 pm

Jefffar wrote:Or moderators.

Gotta be able to afford web designers first.

Guest · Unread post by **Guest** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 10:02 pm

Ranger wrote:Nice weapon.

I'd rather see more 20mm AMRs than yet another .50 cal.

Jefffar · Unread post by **Jefffar** » Fri Apr 29, 2005 6:16 pm

20 mm is over rated. In AMRs it's less acurrate and has a lesser effective range than the .50.

Now the 15.2 mm APDSFS weapon built by Steyr . . . that's a wicked toy

Guest · Unread post by **Guest** » Sat May 07, 2005 9:40 am

ash_wednesday wrote:
Kuseru Satsujin wrote:
ash_wednesday wrote:My..those are BIG bullets...

I take it you've never seen 20mm rounds.
Nope and I hope I don't..ever....Can we say "overkill"?

These aren't sniper rifles, they're anti-materiel rifles.

Mantisking · Unread post by **Mantisking** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 11:47 pm

I was watching FutureWeapons the other day, and they did a segment on the rifle I linked to.

GhostKnight · Unread post by **GhostKnight** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 2:14 pm

The Barrett M82A1 is only 3 lb heavier and proven reliability. Why didn't they just go to a .416 Barrett?

Ten Tigers · Unread post by **Ten Tigers** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 6:55 pm

What is "anti-material?"

Mantisking · Unread post by **Mantisking** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 7:40 pm

Ten Tigers wrote:What is "anti-material?"

It means it's meant to be used primarily against light vehicles and buildings rather than people.

Jefffar · Unread post by **Jefffar** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 7:45 pm

Pretty much - the idea is to break stuff rather than go after people (which is why the innacuracy of .50 and 20 mm rounds used in the early weapons wasn't such a big deal).

Prime targets include light armoured vehicles, radar, communications systems, parked aircraft and similar breakable stuff. One Croation model was specifically created to shoot out the ight sights on Serbian T72 tanks.

The use of match grade .50 ammunition in more recent conflicts makes them potent man killers at extreme range (official kills from more than 2 miles away).

batlchip · Unread post by **batlchip** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 7:47 am

Gotta love it when the start upgrading :-D

taalismn · Unread post by **taalismn** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 10:21 am

Ouch...it's almost like the old big-caliber 'anti-tank rifles'...only much more useful....

Jefffar · Unread post by **Jefffar** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 8:06 pm

Well the .50 was origionally intended as an anti-tank weapon - so was the 14.5 mm used in some Russian Machineguns and a handful of AMRs.

So far , he only purpose built AMR round that's gotten past the prototype stage is the 15.2 mm Steyr Sabot round - though it's really a small basis of issue.

GhostKnight · Unread post by **GhostKnight** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 11:06 pm

You could go with a Barrett 25mm XM-109.

dragon_blaze_99 · Tue Jul 24, 2007 4:57 pm

my favorite gun
http://www.snipercentral.com/c3a1.htm

I'm Canadian sorry

GhostKnight · Unread post by **GhostKnight** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 9:24 pm

dragon_blaze_99 wrote:my favorite gun
http://www.snipercentral.com/c3a1.htm

I'm Canadian sorry

Canadians are allowed to have guns? I thought they stopped by Germany to pick up armaments whenever they went out on maneuver.

Jefffar · Unread post by **Jefffar** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 10:14 pm

GhostKnight wrote:You could go with a Barrett 25mm XM-109.

I still haven't figured out if this weapon is a high velocity, pinpoint grenade launcher or a low velocity anti-materiel weapon - it will be interesting to see how effective it becomes once development is complete.

GhostKnight · Unread post by **GhostKnight** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 11:19 pm

Jefffar wrote:
GhostKnight wrote:You could go with a Barrett 25mm XM-109.

I still haven't figured out if this weapon is a high velocity, pinpoint grenade launcher or a low velocity anti-materiel weapon - it will be interesting to see how effective it becomes once development is complete.

Somewhat longer range and 2.5x more killing power.

Jefffar · Unread post by **Jefffar** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 8:34 am

Numbers are only a part of the effeciveness score.

dragon_blaze_99 · Thu Jul 26, 2007 4:27 pm

GhostKnight wrote:
dragon_blaze_99 wrote:my favorite gun
http://www.snipercentral.com/c3a1.htm

I'm Canadian sorry

Canadians are allowed to have guns? I thought they stopped by Germany to pick up armaments whenever they went out on maneuver.

only 2 days a year with special permits and looooooooots of paper work