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Offline Unknown Target

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What gun is this?
on: November 23, 2004, 01:08:07 pm


That is a SAW, right? I don't see the big box clip, or rather, any clip, and I see a scope (an odd thing for a weapon like the SAW, imho)...what sort of gun is this?

By the way, he's a US trooper.
 

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Reply #1 on: November 23, 2004, 01:09:50 pm
Its a saw, remember, weapons are modded all the time. And he probably was reloadin or something.
 

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Reply #2 on: November 23, 2004, 01:15:14 pm
I thought it was a SAW, just couldn't be sure. Although it looks like he's ready with the gun (this is an AP photo, taken from a Yahoo article about the new offensive in the "triangle of death" in Iraq)
 

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Reply #3 on: November 23, 2004, 01:15:20 pm
looks like it's belt fed, look just behind the bipod legs.
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Reply #4 on: November 23, 2004, 01:39:09 pm
FN MAG, or M240 as its known in US service. Belt fed replacement for the M60, in serveice with a couple of dozen armys. Brits and Irish call it the GPMG. Interestingly the M60 was originally chosen over it back in the sixties iirc, forty years later it replaced the M60. FN also made the SAW, or FN Minimi as its known outside the US, hence the similarity.
 

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Reply #5 on: November 23, 2004, 02:15:14 pm
Anyone ever heard of the Hungarian gun wonder called Cheetah?
It is a high caliber sniper rifle designed to penetrate tank armor or snipe at extreme ranges.
There also was a version with repeating ability.

The rifle has a whooping 12,7 mm caliber with a precision sight that allows to shoot accuratly at roughly 1km.

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Reply #6 on: November 23, 2004, 02:21:39 pm
I am really ashamed of it, but I haven't even heard of the Cheetah.
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Reply #7 on: November 23, 2004, 02:24:20 pm
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I am really ashamed of it, but I haven't even heard of the Cheetah.


Its Hungarian name is Gepárd.
You can find more pictures about it on the followin site, though I'm still on the lookout for an English article:

http://www.extra.hu/gepard
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Reply #8 on: November 23, 2004, 03:01:15 pm
so is that bigger than a .50 cal ?
 

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Reply #9 on: November 23, 2004, 03:12:25 pm
Am I the only one just a bit frightened by Gank's extensive knoiwledge of firearms?
 

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Reply #10 on: November 23, 2004, 03:16:18 pm
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so is that bigger than a .50 cal ?


It is a tad smaller. .50 is about 13 mm AFAIK.
Though the gun is also made in a 14-15 mm caliber version.
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Reply #11 on: November 23, 2004, 03:18:46 pm
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Its Hungarian name is Gepárd.
You can find more pictures about it on the followin site, though I'm still on the lookout for an English article:

http://www.extra.hu/gepard


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Reply #12 on: November 23, 2004, 03:39:03 pm
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That is a SAW, right? I don't see the big box clip, or rather, any clip, and I see a scope (an odd thing for a weapon like the SAW, imho)...what sort of gun is this?

By the way, he's a US trooper.


Main part of the body looks identical to the Belgian-made MAG machine gun. You can also clearly see the belt bag, like Inq said. Also, that blocky thing on the side of the barrel is probably a laser pointer.
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Reply #13 on: November 23, 2004, 03:41:37 pm
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Was the guy shooting it a Jedi? He seems to have Obi-Wanned?
 

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Reply #14 on: November 23, 2004, 03:47:22 pm
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That is a SAW, right? I don't see the big box clip, or rather, any clip, and I see a scope (an odd thing for a weapon like the SAW, imho)...what sort of gun is this?

By the way, he's a US trooper.


Looks like a GPMG or a SAW. I see something similar everyday in our stores here.
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Reply #15 on: November 23, 2004, 03:49:23 pm
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Was the guy shooting it a Jedi? He seems to have Obi-Wanned?


Jedi have no need for such weapons.
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Reply #16 on: November 23, 2004, 04:06:32 pm
Yeah I am pretty sure its a SAW, just using a belt bag instead of box plus with a laser sight, bipod, and scope.
 

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Reply #17 on: November 23, 2004, 04:16:25 pm
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It is a tad smaller. .50 is about 13 mm AFAIK.
Though the gun is also made in a 14-15 mm caliber version.


0.50 is  12.7mm based on 25.4mm to an inch, so yeah it is exactly 0.50 cal - most of this stuff started off in imperial measurements anyway.....
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Reply #18 on: November 23, 2004, 04:25:39 pm
Speaking of guns...


Isnt that the OICWA from Ghost Recon (small rifle with massive nade launcher).
 

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Reply #19 on: November 23, 2004, 04:33:13 pm
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Anyone ever heard of the Hungarian gun wonder called Cheetah?


Its hardly a wonder, theres quite a few sniper rifles in this calibre and larger. Barret M95, OSV-96, Artic Warfare .50, RT-20, KSVK etc.
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