Sniper Rifles
Real name for this sniper rifle is SVD. Russian: Снайперская винтовка Драгунова ... that means: Snayperskaya Vintovka Dragunova (= SVD) ... that means: Dragunov sniper rifle. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SVD_(rifle) Real name for this sniper rifle is SVD. Russian: Снайперская винтовка Драгунова ... that means: Snayperskaya Vintovka Dragunova (= SVD) ... that means: Dragunov sniper rifle.
This is a shorter version of the well known Dragunov sniper rifle. Images: http://world.guns.ru/sniper/sn19-e.htm
About 3000 of these sniper rifles were produced for the british army.Counterstrike:Source:This weapon is called "Magnum Sniper Rifle", Arctic Warfare Magnum or "AWP". bind "buy weapon_awp"
M24 Sniper Weapon System (SWS) The M24 Sniper Weapon System (SWS) is produced since 1988 and is still used by the US army in current conflicts like Afghanistan or Iraq.
This sniper rifle is an anti material rifle, using .50 caliber. It can penetrate even light armoured tanks (in real life). Real Life vs Games: The Barrett M95 sniper rifle is not used by the US army. The US army choose to use the M82 barrett instead (but it seems, a lot other countries and some special forces use the M95 though) The Barrett M95 sniper rifle not a semi automatic rifle, you cannot shoot several bullets directly after each other. The M95 is bolt action, that means, you have to load the next bullet manually to the chamber. The M95 is more deadly in real life than in games: It uses .50 caliber rounds, they are so big and travel so fast, that even a slight hit will cause a deadly wound: for example: if it hits an arm, the arm will be ripped off. The victim will die very fast due to blood loss or die immediately due to the impact. It is very unlikely to survive a hit from a .50 bullet. Differences to other Barrett models: The main difference to the M82 s ...
Sniper Rifle PSG-1 Heckler & KochPSG stands for "PräzisionsScharfschützenGewehr 1" (Precision Sniper Rifle 1).
The Type 88 is a different name for the QBU-88 sniper rifle. Battlefield Bad Company 2 calls it QBY-88.
Even a shot in a foot results in a instant kill in Infiltration. This was decided by the developers, as the big caliber of the sniper rifle would cause a serious damage even on smallest hits. Either because it will rip off a full body part (happens in RL often when using .50 caliber bullets) or it will result in a so called wound shock... even though the wound shock is to be discussed... at least a hit with a .50 bullet will cause serious wounds, so they decided to make it an insta kill.
Also called SV98 Sniper.
The Vintorez is used by russian army forces and was used in the war between Georgia and Russia 2008.