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Hamas Claims to Make Sniper Rifles in Gaza - Are They Really? (Ad-free)
🕑 Added 2023-12-21 12:00:08 +0000 UTCHamas - or rather its specific military wing the Al Qassam Brigade - posted a video on Twitter / X yesterday purporting to show the manufacture of .50 caliber sniper rifles in Gaza. I was curious to have a look at it, as I've seen a lot of rifle factories and done some of this sort of work myself, so let's see what the video actually shows when we look carefully...
Conflict Armament Research's report on the Iranian AM-50 (copy of the Steyr HS-50):
https://www.conflictarm.com/technical/iranian-am-50-12-7-x-99-mm-anti-materiel-rifle/
Thanks also to Armament Research Services for consultation on the AM-50.
Comments
David T Klein
It looks like the youngster in https://youtu.be/uBRwlrBOtkQ has better skills and technique. Hamas are horrific terrorists, but I suspect not savvy manufacturers of precision weapons.
Paul Johnston
The bit where he leaves the chuck key in the lathe gave me flashbacks to my apprenticeship!
Darryl Buckman
As a machinist, even the take of machining the scope mount is wrong. To get a true and precise bore axis for the scope, you would have a top and bottom blank machined with no bore screw them together with a spacer in between, then drill and finally precision bore the axis. This still only works with that level of machining if you mark each upper and lower so they don’t get mixed up and are always assembled in correct order and direction, as you will see on every old engine journals. Certainly it is possible to make good products on conventional machines, but not using those techniques.
Kenneth Crips
look close at the primers in the cartridges, they are all seated to deeply. This means those are the wrong primers.
Forgotten Weapons
No - that video is not mine to post.
Brad
Quick question -- will Patrons get the full version of the Royal Armouries interview?
