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The M82 is an anti-materiel rifle of US origin. It was developed by Barrett in the early 1980's and the first anti-materiel rifle to be widely adopted. It is mostly used as a long range anti-material rifle and is also effective against personnel.
The M82 is a short recoil operated semi-automatic weapon. The design follows a straight line principle with the barrel, receiver and shoulder stock in line. The fluted heavy barrel is free floating and recoils upon firing. A very effective multi-slotted muzzle brake is fitted.
The M82 is a semi-automatic weapon that fires the 12.7x99mm NATO round from a 10 round magazine. Accuracy is within 3 MOA and can be below 1 MOA with match ammunition. The maximum effective range is quoted to be 1.8 km. The effective range of the M107CQ is 600 m.
Scott Ibrahim used it during the Russian war and Eritrean war.
Pepper used it on occasion, including a mission to Sokolov's base and the M107 version in Operation "Take Down Overlord".
