Folding Barrett M98B

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The M98B is an improved version of the M98 sniper rifle and fires 0.338-inch Lapua-Magnum rounds. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The gun is a moderately powerful anti-personnel long-range sniper rifle, between the 7.62mm and 12.7mm mainstream caliber sniper rifles, and has a high accuracy, with a dispersion diameter of 6 cm at a distance of 500 meters (our 85 and 88 snipers are not up to this level at 100 meters), and can hit human targets without correction at a distance of 1600 meters. It can kill personnel with one shot.

Barrett M98B

Barrett M98B

Since 2008, the global economic situation has deteriorated, the United States has weakened its finances, and the arms-related market has been in a recession. However, Barrett is still on the cusp of the storm, and recently launched its newly developed M98B sniper rifle. The gun was designed with the concept of a long-range high-precision sniper rifle in mind, opening a new page in the field of long-range sniper rifles......

The sniper rifles produced by Barrett have always enjoyed an excellent reputation. The M82A 10.50-inch rifle produced by the company at the beginning of its founding was widely used in real combat and was highly praised. Later, the company introduced the M98 sniper rifle of 7.62mm caliber. The gun has good reliability and high accuracy, and has achieved good results after being equipped with the US military in 1987. Now, based on the mature design of the M98 rifle, the company has changed it to a 0.338-inch Lapua-Magnum caliber and launched a new M98B rifle.

Moderately powerful anti-personnel sniper rifle

The M82A1 rifle of 0.50-inch caliber is not suitable for dealing with personnel targets. The gun is usually used to attack the engine of an armored vehicle, disabling it, and then it is easier to shoot at the enemy inside the vehicle. However, the use of 0.50-inch bullets against personnel not in armoured vehicles is inhumane because of their excessive power. In addition, although the M82A1 rifle has a long range, due to its large mass, mobility and portability, soldiers are not suitable for long-distance movement when shooting in hand, and the probability of "one shot hit" is also affected by the large range. Therefore, the demand for specialized lightweight anti-personnel sniper rifles in the military and police forces is still very high.

The 7.62mm caliber dominates the medium-range lightweight anti-personnel sniper rifles in use today, but Barrett designed the M98B sniper rifle with a 0.338-inch Lapuamagnum calibre, mainly considering the shooting accuracy at long distances.

The best option under the trade-offs

When using 5.56mm and 7.62mm bullets, because the energy and mass of the bullet are relatively small, when the range reaches more than 800m, these two bullets will be affected by air resistance and wind force will be much larger than the 0.338-inch Lapua Magnum bullet, and the shooting accuracy will inevitably be affected, and it is difficult to achieve "one shot must hit". If you switch to a slightly more powerful 0.338-inch Lapua-Magnum bullet, it not only has overwhelming energy, but also has a large bullet mass, a straight trajectory, and is relatively less affected by wind and air resistance, that is, it has a strong storage velocity. That is, when the projectile is used at a longer distance, the accuracy of the hit is much higher. In addition, in terms of power, when firing at a distance of 600 meters in a relatively open area, it is obvious that the 5.56mm and 7.62mm NATO bullets are not powerful enough.

However, in the modern battlefield, snipers are more eager to achieve the effect of "one shot must be hit" at a distance of 1600m, which is exactly what the 0.338-inch Lapua-Magnum bullet can do. However, the price of this bullet is relatively expensive, about 6~7 times that of the 7.62mm NATO bullet, so the cost of training with this bullet is extremely high. For example, if the U.S. Marine Corps trains snipers and shoots 70 rounds per sniper per day, it costs about $35 a day to use a 7.62mm NATO bullet, and $233 to use a 0.338-inch Lapua Magnum bullet! This discouraged snipers from the 0.338-inch Lapua Magnum bullet. The same is true for the U.S. Marine Corps, let alone the Army, which has a smaller budget.

The reality is that even with the high price of 0.338-inch bullets, the army still needs sniper rifles of this caliber. Because even if 100,000 rounds of 0.338-inch Lapua-Magnum rounds were used during the training, if he could snipe an important enemy officer on the actual battlefield at a long distance, it could have a significant impact on the entire battle situation, then the cost of training was worth it. In short, the high cost of training brings a more shocking sniper effect, and the charm of the 0.338-inch Lapua Magnum bullet is irresistible, and the armies of several countries have now locked the caliber of sniper rifles on this bullet.

Several advantages make for high-precision design

The M98B sniper rifle adopts a non-automatic mode of rotary rear pull bolt mechanism, with a slender appearance, a total gun length of 1264mm, a total gun mass of 6.12kg, a barrel length of 686mm, and an adjustable trigger force between 9~16N. The magazine is fed with a magazine capacity of 10 rounds. Its outstanding advantages are reflected in the following aspects.

One of the advantages: modular design

The M98B sniper rifle adopts a modular design, which allows the user to make appropriate adjustments to the components according to the needs, and has the advantages of small mass, good heat dissipation, low recoil, and high accuracy, which is not only an effective anti-personnel sniper rifle, but also can be used as an anti-materiel rifle to a certain extent.

Advantage 2: The design is simple, taking into account both the left and right hands

The M98B rifle has a rugged shape, the main body is cut from aluminum alloy, and the skeleton design is adopted, which effectively reduces the weight of the whole gun, and is very suitable for individual soldiers. The whole gun adopts a straight design, which reflects the humanized design everywhere. A height-adjustable monopod was mounted under the butt, the adjustment knob of which could be mounted to the left or right side of the barrel as needed. A bipod is mounted in front of the lower receiver, the recoil cushion behind the butt can be adjusted by selecting different tamponades, and the cheek plate made of lightweight polymer can also be adjusted in height from the left and right sides. This series of designs not only makes the recoil softer and easier to handle, but also helps the shooter to reduce fatigue when aiming and shooting for a long time, and improve shooting stability and accuracy.