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Siin on hea lugu viimasest "Marine Corps Time'st", kus MK11-st räägitakse.
http://www.marinetimes.com/print.php?f= ... 207320.php
November 07, 2005
New rifle keeps snipers on offensive — and defensive
MK11 is lighter than bolt-action gun, has 20-round magazine
By Christian Lowe
Times staff writer
The Marine Corps sniper, with his bolt-action rifle and high-powered scope, is an icon of the modern Corps.
Since the days when Gunnery Sgt. Carlos Hathcock — the father of the Marine sniper community — took out enemy forces in the steamy jungles of Vietnam, the Corps has remained steadfast, adhering to the precision and balance afforded by the old-school bolt-action sniper rifle. As the sniper’s motto goes: “One shot, one kill.”
Until now.
In response to an emergency request from II Marine Expeditionary Force commanders in Iraq, the Corps is purchasing 180 sniper rifles that for the first time would break from single-shot tradition. The Corps hopes to have the new multi-shot, semi-automatic sniper rifles in the hands of scout-sniper teams in Iraq by February.
Marine officials and snipers say the new rifle will help defend sniper teams in an urban battlefield, such as Fallujah, where multiple targets pop up faster than the current M40A3 bolt-action rifle can handle.
“The M40 is not ideally suited to some of the targets [snipers] are encountering,” said Maj. Patrick Cashman, who is in charge of developing infantry requirements for Marine Corps Combat Development Command in Quantico, Va., and is helping fulfill II MEF’s request.
“They need something that’s a little faster and they need something that can ideally assist them in the break-contact portion of their mission.”
So Marine Corps Systems Command decided to purchase 180 of the Titusville, Fla.-based Knight’s Armament-manufactured “MK11 Mod 0” sniper rifle — the same one used by Navy SEALs since 2000 — to answer II MEF’s need.
Though admittedly not as accurate at long ranges — from 800 to 1,000 yards — as the M40A3 sniper rifle, the MK11 is 6 pounds lighter and isn’t as long, making it easier for snipers to maneuver in the nooks and crannies of buildings and transport the weapon over long distances.
“You’re never going to get as accurate at a bolt-action rifle, but we’re talking about inches at 800 yards,” Cashman explained.
The 20-round magazine and higher rate of fire also helps make the MK11 a defensive weapon, eliminating the need for snipers to carry three weapons — the M40A3, an M16A4 carbine and M9 pistol — on their way to a hide, snipers say.
But an added advantage of the MK11, particularly in an urban fight where the enemy lurks among the population sharing the roads and alleys with Marines on patrol, is the rifle’s resemblance to a standard M16A4.
“One of the concerns is if you’re sitting in a sniper team and you have somebody observing your position and they see someone going out with what looks like a high-powered hunting rifle, they’re probably going to figure out what that guy’s job in life is,” Cashman said. “This looks a little bit more like an M16, so it assists you if you’re dropping off sniper teams.
“It could be two Marines, or it could be a sniper team.”
The MK11 can accommodate a silencer and is equipped with a bipod and rail-mounted long-range scope. It also fires the same high-powered 7.62 ammunition used with the M40A3.
“We wanted to get this capability as quickly as possible, and if we started having requirements for specialized ammo it would have delayed everything,” Cashman said.
A portion of the 180 rifles will be fielded to the sniper schools at Quantico, Camp Lejeune, N.C., and Camp Pendleton, Calif. The MK11s fielded to units in Iraq will be turned over to the sniper teams who replace them on following rotations, Cashman added.
The Army recently awarded a contract to Knight’s Armament for the XM110, a variant of the MK11, to replace the service’s M24 bolt-action sniper rifles. The Army plans to field 4,400 of the rifles through 2009.
Officials with Systems Command declined to comment on the Corps’ purchase of the 180 MK11 rifles — except to confirm the $1.2 million cost of the program — and would not say whether the Corps is looking to replace the M40A3 with the new, semi-automatic rifle for all sniper teams.
MK11 specs
Ammunition: 7.62mm (.308 Win.), M118 LR (combat use) and M852 Match.
Barrel rifling and twist: five grooves, right-hand twist with one turn in 11 inches.
Muzzle velocity: 2,571 feet per second.
Barrel length: 20 inches.
Maximum effective range: 1,000 meters.
Overall length: 39.5 inches.
Maximum height (w/20-round magazine and day optic): 10.25 inches.
Rifle weight (unloaded, without sights, adapters or mounts): 10.44 pounds.
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