Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Steyr SSG 69

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The Steyr SSG 69 (Scharfschützengewehr 69) is a bolt-action sniper rifle was developed and is being built by Austrian company  Steyr-Daimler-Puch (now Steyr-Mannlicher AG) and serves as the standard sniper rifle for the Austrian Army.

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PGM Hecate II

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PGM Hecate II (a.k.a. FR-12,7) are made by PGM Precision company in France. It is the standard heavy sniper rifle of the French Army. Hecate II is the largest of the whole UR family rifles.

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Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Pindad SPR

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Pindad SPR (Senapan Penembak Runduk) Rifle produced by PT. Pindad, Indonesia. This gun allows the shooter to adjust the height of the position and stability by regulating the bipod rifle on the bottom front of the barrel, look at the target with a snap type of telescope making sniper rifle with high accuracy. Sniper rifle is available in three variants: SPR-1, SPR-2 and SPR-3 are all filled with bullets caliber 7.62 x 51 mm.

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Remington 700

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Remington 700 is one of the best sniper rifle in the world. Remington 700 series of firearms are bolt-action rifles manufactured by Remington Arms since 1962, when U.S. Marines Winchester refused requests for a replacement barrel. Charlos Hatchock including the user model 700. The Remington 700 comes in a large number of variants, with different stocks, barrel configurations, metal finishes and calibers. In addition there are 3 lengths of action (not including the Model Seven's lightweight action, which is even shorter than the 'standard' short action). There is the short action for .308-length cartridges, the standard for .30-06 length cartridges and the long action for magnum calibers.

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Monday, March 14, 2011

IMI Galil Sniper Rifle (Galatz)

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GALATZ is a Galil sniper rifle with high quality 7.62x51mm NATO (.308win) cartridge ammunition for consistent accuracy. The changes made to original rifle made were:
- two stage trigger with semi-auto only mode of fire
- heavy target-style barrel with flash-hider and threads to accept optional silencer
- folding wooden buttstock, ajustable for lenght, with ajustable cheekpad
- fixed power 6X telescopic sights (quick-detachable mount is fixed on the left side of the receiver). Iron sights are kept in place for backup purposes.

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CZ 550

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CZ 550 is a rifle for civilian or military from the Czech Republic. The CZ 550 rifle resembles the Mauser 98 rifle series, though it is not an exact copy. The CZ-550 is a bolt-action hunting rifle series manufactured by Česká Zbrojovka Uherský Brod (CZ). Since the CZ 550 magnum size action can be chambered for super magnum cartridges some elephant gun wildcat cartridges were tested and others specially designed with and for this action.

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Armalite AR-10

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Armalite AR-10 is a special rifle for sniper specialist with great accurancy. ArmaLite AR-10 has been developed within the fertile mind of ArmaLite's Chief Engineer, Eugene Stoner, in the late 1950s, the AR-15 has evolved into a family of super weapons serving the U.S. military and many of its allies for the last 35 years, including, but not limited to, the M-16, M-16A1, M-16A2, and the latest M-4.

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Thursday, March 10, 2011

F-22 Raptor

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F-22 Raptor is a stealth fighter made by the United States. It was originally envisioned as air superiority fighter for use against Soviet aircraft, but the aircraft is equipped for ground attack, electronic warfare and signals intelligence. This aircraft through a long development period, prototype version was named YF-22, three years before it was officially adopted was named F/A-22, and eventually was named the F-22A when it officially came into use in December 2005. Lockheed Martin Aeronautics is the prime contractor is responsible for the majority of the airframe, weapons, and assembling the F-22. Then his partner, Boeing Integrated Defense Systems provides the wings, avionics equipment, and pilot and maintenance training.

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M1 Garand

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M1 Garand (USA) is a gas operated, magazine fed, semiautomatic rifle. Its a full blown combat rifle with maxiumum range of 3,200 meters and maximum effective range of 400 meters. Fully loaded with 8-round en bloc clip, cleaning kit in butt stock, sling and with stock of dense GI issue wood the M1 weighed in at 11-1/4 lbs. M1 was manufactured by Springfield Armory in late 1944-1945, mounted either a M81 or M82 scope, a T4 leather cheek pad, and an M2 flash hider.
The M1 was the designated service rifle of World War II and the Korean War for the United States Military. It was designed for semi-automatic fire using a spring steel clip containing 8 rounds. This is where the term "clip" originated. All other rifles used a detachable or fixed magazine. (There is some discussion on whether this is accurate, if you have a comment, please enter it on our Bulletin Board.) The M1 Garand was designed for long range accuracy  i.e. battle zero was set for any target less than 200 yards It was the only rifle that had fully adjustable i.e. windage and elevation, rear sights.
In the Call of Duty, and in the expansion pack United Offensive, the M1 Garand is typically the US Army's rifle of choice.

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Wednesday, March 9, 2011

RQ-4 Global Hawk

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RQ-4 Global Hawk is an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) made by American. In role and operational design, the Global Hawk is similar to the Lockheed U-2, the venerable 1950s spy plane. It is a theater commander's asset to provide a broad overview and systematic target surveillance. For this purpose, the Global Hawk is able to provide high resolution Synthetic Aperture Radar  (SAR)—that can penetrate cloud-cover and sandstorms and Electro-Optical/Infrared (EO/IR) imagery at long range with long loiter times over target areas. It can survey as much as 40,000 square miles (100,000 square kilometers) of terrain a day.

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Glock 17 "Safe Action Pistol"

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The Glock Safe Action Pistol, also known as the Glock is a series of semi-automatic pistol designed and manufactured by Glock Ges.mbH, located in Deutsch-Wagram, Austria. The company's founder, engineer Gaston Glock, have no experience with the design or manufacture of firearms at the time of their first pistol, Glock 17. Glock only has extensive experience in advanced synthetic polymers that are used to frame pistol. Ferritic nitrocarburizing Glock introduced into the firearms industry as an anti-corrosion surface treatment for metal gun parts. In addition to several Glock pistols other manufacturers also started using ferritic nitrocarburizing to finish the parts such as barrels and slides.

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Baretta 8000 Cougar

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Beretta 8000 series pistols are manufactured by Beretta of Italy. These pistols offer good compromise between concealability, ease of carry, accuracy and firepower. These pistols are well suited for both police duty and for civilian self-defense.

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