Snipers with the Army's 82nd Airborne Division recently got to test the performance of a new combat sniper rifle with a unique challenge: airborne insertion. The Compact Semi-Automatic Sniper ...

Sniper rifles are the pinnacle of precision engineering. A trained marksman has to calculate many factors before taking a ...

U.S. soldiers and Marines can expect to see a slew of new gear in their kits at the start of the next decade, from improved body armor to better sniper rifles and grenade launchers By Jared Keller ...

It was soon evident that one type of longarm the newly formed American Expeditionary Force needed was an effective sniper rifle. The standard U.S. Army sniper rifle at the time of America’s ...

SOCOM awarded a $49.9 million contract to Barrett in 2019 to adopt its Multi-role Adaptive Design, or MRAD, under the Advanced Sniper Rifle program, with both the Army and Marine Corps pushing to ...

The Marine Corps noted in budget request documents at the inception of the program that they intended to purchase 250 Mk22 Mod 0 rifles. The Army announced in 2021 that it would also replace its ...

The U.S. Marine Corps has achieved Fully Operational Capability (FOC) for the MK22 Mod 0 Advanced Sniper Rifle (ASR ... with SOCOM and the U.S. Army, the rifle enhances mission readiness for ...

The confirmed record for this caliber belongs to British sniper Corporal Craig Harrison of the Blues and Royals regiment. In ...

The unnamed soldier who killed the IS militant used a McMillan TAC-50 sniper rifle, from an elevated position. Its manufacturer says its effective firing range is 1,800 metres, around half the ...