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SEALS Get New Semi-Auto .50 Caliber BMG
Sniper Shots are going to get a whole lot easier.
Looks like the U.S. Navy SEALs just got a brand new tool for the War on Terror.
The boys at NSWC Crane (Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane, Indiana) have apparently been busy little beavers over there.
One of the projects they’ve been working on is this little .50 BMG badboy.
It’s called the AS50 Semi-Automatic Rifle, and it’s the result of NSWC Crane’s teaming with Accuracy International (AI).
At approx. 27 pounds empty/dry weight (according to the AI representative at their booth), the AI AS50 is relatively lightweight….
The Accuracy International (AI) AS50 Semi-Auto Rifle (.50 BMG) was designed specifically for U.S. military Special Operations (SPECOPS) personnel/snipers.
More specifically, it was designed for the U.S. Navy SEALs to provide them with anti-materiel/long-range interdiction capability, combined with fast follow-up shot capability, in a combat-rugged, lightweight weapons package that can be assembled and broken down quickly and easily, and maintained easily. …
Sounds pretty good.
As if that’s not enough, the AI rep at the booth told us that the AS50 semi-auto .50 BMG rifle creates less felt recoil than their AW50 bolt-action .50 BMG rifle. …
Magazine capacity is 5 rounds for the AS50.
The magazine is detachable box type.
AI’s whole focus is to combine match-grade accuracy with military-application reliability and ruggedness, and it looks like it just might have succeeded with the AS50.
This photo was brought to you courtesy of that follow up shot…
Tactical Sniper Kill Shot
A Canadian sniper sharpshooter in Afghanistan has been confirmed as hitting an enemy soldier at a range of 2,310 meters (7565 ft/1.43 miles), the longest recorded and confirmed sniper shot in history.
The previous record of 2,250 meters (7369 ft/1.4 miles) was set by US Marine sniper Carlos Hathcock in Vietnam in 1967.
The Canadian sniper was at an altitude of 8,500 feet and the target, across a valley, was at 9,000 feet.
Canadian sniper teams often operated in support of US infantry units, which were grateful for their help.
The record lasted only one day, until a second Canadian sniper hit an enemy soldier at 2,400 meters (7860 feet/1.48 miles).
The Canadian snipers fire special 50-caliber McMillan tactical rifles, which are bolt-action weapons with five-round magazines.
The Canadian snipers were the only Canadian troops operating without helmets or flak jackets as they had too much other equipment to carry.
Each three-man sniper team has one sniper rifle, three standard rifles Canadian (C7s), one of them with a 203mm grenade launcher.
Americans use the Barrett .50 semi-auto M-107.
They have a nick named the Barrett sniper rifle, Grim Reaper.
‘Grim Reapers’ indeed.
So far, so good.







































































































































