FREE THE BARRETT RIFLE: SNIPING AND ANTI- MATERIEL RIFLES IN THE WAR ON TERRORA PDF Chris McNab,Johnny Shumate,Alan Gilliland | 80 pages | 24 Mar 2016 | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC | 9781472811011 | English | United Kingdom The Barrett Rifle - Osprey Publishing If there is one weapon that has truly revolutionized sniping as we know it, it is the Barrett M82 rifle. In fact, the M82 really created an entirely new genre of firearms: taking the traditional sniper rifle concept and expanding it into the anti-material rifle. The Barrett M82 as we know it today was developed primarily in the s. A man named Ronnie Barrett was working as a professional photographer, with very little experience when it came to building firearms. Little did Barrett know that the rifle he would develop would turn into one of the most effective weapons on the military battlefield of all time. InBarrett was taking photos of a military patrol boat in Tennessee. The boat was equipped with two Browning M2 heavy machine gunsboth of which were chambered for the powerful. Even though he had little overall firearms experience and virtually no training in firearms design, Barrett was intrigued by the idea of taking the. With nothing more than a sketch pad and a pen, he began drawing the design for the new. He drew three separate graphs for the rifle to show the intricate details of the rifle and how it would function, and took these graphs to local machinists in his are. It took a few months before Barrett was able to find one machinist named Bob Mitchell who saw the value in the concept of a. The Barrett Rifle: Sniping and Anti-Materiel Rifles in the War on Terrora less than four months, the two had built the first prototype for the Barrett M82 rifle. From the beginning, the Barrett M82 was designed to be a semi-automatic rifle that could be fired from the shoulder. It was also designed to have recoil that would be propelled backwards rather than upwards as was the case with most rifles. This was because of the rotating locked breach design with an accelerator arm that would cause the recoil to be pushed back and cycle the action, before cocking the firing pin again and loading a new round from the magazine into the chamber. As you can imagine, the. However, the recoil is actually reduced significantly because of the design features described above. The muzzle brake attached to the end of the barrel further helps to reduce recoil as much as possible by venting the spent gasses to the left and to the right. The Barrett M82, being powerful enough to destroy enemy vehicles and other pieces of equipment, had single handedly created an entirely new class of rifle — the anti-material rifle. The M82 was not just adopted by the United States military and intelligence agencies. It was also adopted by the Swedish military, who actually ordered one hundred of the M82s before the United States military did. A year later, the United States Marine Corps would order a hundred and twenty five examples of the rifle to be used in Operation Desert Storm, and proceeded to order four hundred more examples of the rifle afterwards. The United States Army actually did not buy the M82 untilwhen they ordered several hundred versions of the M variants we will discuss more on the different variants of the M82 later in this article. Today, the M82 and its various configurations are used by more than sixty countries and have seen combat in conflicts throughout Asia and the Middle East. Even countries that do not use the M82 have adopted anti-material rifles that were clearly inspired by the M82 — the Russian OSV and the Chinese Zijiang The Barrett Rifle: Sniping and Anti-Materiel Rifles in the War on Terrora are clear examples. The Barrett M82 measures fifty seven inches with a twenty nine inch barrel and an overall weight of twenty eight and half pounds. In contrast to this, a standard 5. The M82 rifle is capable of tapping targets at very long ranges. Whereas the AR has a maximum effective range of around six hundred yards, the M82 can easily tap targets at distances of fifteen hundred yards, and. A properly trained shooter could easily use the M82 to tap targets out to distances of around two thousand yards. The real stand out of the M82 rifle is not the rifle itself, but rather the caliber it fires: the. Basically, Browning took the existing. He then designed a machine gun to go with it called the M2 Browning Machine Gun, which was based off of the earlier M Browning Machine Gun that fired the. The M was a highly effective anti-personnel weapon, but less so for anti-aircraft or anti-vehicle purposes. Examples of other military rifles that fired the. The M2 Browning was released inand it remains in continuous production today. This makes it one of the longest service weapons of the United States military, surpassed only by the Colt MA1 in. The M2 had been proceeded by the M Machine Gun as well. The Browning M2 served in anti-aircraft, vehicle, and personnel roles throughout the 20th The Barrett Rifle: Sniping and Anti-Materiel Rifles in the War on Terrora, and is still being used today. It has commonly been attached to fighting vehicles, such as Humvees, tanks, and anti-aircraft guns. Of course, as we just discussed it was Ronnie Barrett who realized the potential of the. This is a big step up from the. The common rifling twist rate for the. It utilizes a boxer primer with a single ignition point, although occasionally it The Barrett Rifle: Sniping and Anti-Materiel Rifles in the War on Terrora manufactured using Berdan primers. Today there are three main variants of the Barrett M82 rifle in use. The first is the original M82A1 and A3, the second is the M82A2 a bullpup version with the magazine located behind the triggerand the third is the MA1 that has a muzzle brake designed to accept a suppressor and is built out of much more durable titanium other M82 rifles are built out of steel. Take note that the M82 is not the same thing as the Barrett M95, which is a bolt action sniper rifle The Barrett Rifle: Sniping and Anti-Materiel Rifles in the War on Terrora a development of the Barrett M The M95 is a bullpup bolt action rifle similar in shape and design to the M82A2. The Barrett Rifle: Sniping and Anti-Materiel Rifles in the War on Terrora also carry a miniature model of the M82A1 on our website. Your email address will not be published. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Username or Email Address. To use social login you have to agree with the storage and handling of your data by this website. Contact About Shop. Switch skin Switch to the dark mode that's kinder on your eyes at night time. Switch to the light mode that's kinder on your eyes at day time. Follow us facebook instagram pinterest youtube. Search Search for: Search. Cart 0. Comments Our site 2 Facebook. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Loading… 0. Comments 0 comments. Log In Sign In. Forgot password? Enter your account data and we will send you a link to reset your password. Your password reset link appears to be invalid or expired. Log in Privacy Policy To use social login you have to agree with the storage and handling of your data by this website. Add to Collection Add new or search Public collection title. Private collection title. Barrett M82 Anti-Material and Sniper Rifle | This company was founded by Ronnie Barrett. This weapon is very popular. It is used by armed forces and special operation units from nearly 60 countries. As of this weapon is still in production. In some countries this anti-material rifle is used as a long-range anti-personnel sniper weapon. Development of this powerful anti-material rifle began in the early s. Working versions were ready byhence the designation M It is worth noting that the M82 is a company designation, rather than a US military designation. The Barrett Firearms Manufacturing company developed and manufactured every part of this weapon on its own. Inand improved M82A1 version was introduced. The company successfully sold rifles to Swedish Armed Forces in In US Marine Corps obtained around of these rifles. Today this anti-material rifle is in service with nearly 60 countries and used by military and law enforcement forces. The Barrett M82 is primarily used as anti-material weapon. This rifle was designed to destroy sensitive enemy equipment at long distances, which traditionally would have The Barrett Rifle: Sniping and Anti- Materiel Rifles in the War on Terrora rocket launchers, recoilless rifles, anti-tank missiles, mortars, or even artillery to engage. These include parked aircraft, radar units, lightly-armored vehicles, trucks, pillboxes, fuel silos and various other important assets at long range. It is also used for remote destruction of explosive ordnance. Despite its anti-material origins, the Barrett M82 is also used as a long-range sniper rifle. It can neutralize enemy snipers at standoff range. The rifle can be also used to hit enemy soldiers, that are hiding behind cover and walls, as its powerful ammunition can penetrate through bricks and concrete. These make the Barrett M82 ideal for raids, special forces applications, harassment of enemy forces, and interdiction missions. Even though Barrett M82 is not among the longest range sniper rifles in the world, a couple of long-range kills were made using this weapon.