Re: sniper weapons for SGII

I personally have never seen a 20mm sniper rifle. Doesn't mean that it
doesn't exist. i would laso point out that I'm not sniper trained,
haven't been to SOTIC, though I have a sniper on my team.

Also, a lot of people are making winking insinuations that the
"anti-material" rifle is designated a certain way but is actually used
for killing people. The question I would point out is why? For that
matter why not use an AT4? The fact is that anyone who is going on a
specific mission to eleiminate somebody probably has to carry the damn
thing quite a ways in. That means you are not going to want to lug that
Barrets monster around, plus your ruck, team equipment, and personal
weapon if you don't need it. You take whatever you need for the job,
nothing more. Unless you are already downrange for some other job and
get tapped to go somewhere else, in which case you'll apt to be lugging
an M24 anyways (in US at least).

PsyWraith@aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 6/26/98 10:36:23 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> smford@execpc.com writes:
>
> > Chris,
> >
> >  I take it from your response that the Army does not as yet field
> the 20mm.
> > I was
> >  informed about this cannon in 1992, from my brother who is a USMC
> sniper.
> > It
> >  was used in the Gulf War to remove command and control equipment.
> There
> >  were confirmed kills to over one mile.  There were some very sick
> jokes
> that
> > this
> >  weapon was against the Geneva Convention agreement, so as such,
> could only
> >  be used against enemy equipment... such as SAM systems, IFV's,
> Comms
> >  equipment, helmets, belt-buckles... etc.
> >
> >  Stuart Ford
>
> I'm sure that Los can confirm this but I'm positive that no one has
> gone to
> producing 20mm sniping weapons.  Your brother may have been talking
> about the
> Barrett M82's that were being fielded during the Gulf conflict which
> had that
> kind of performance.	The largest sniper rifles that I'm aware of
> include
> Steyr's IW2000/AMR and Technika of Hungary with a few rifles that are
> chambered for Russian/Warsaw Pact 14.5mm.
>
> SGT Chris Ruhl
> Team Chief, Tactical PSYOP Team 931
> A Company, 9th PSYOP Battalion (Airborne)