Accuracy International AWM

Who don't know this weapon?? Almost all gamers know much about this weapon. This sniper rifle is the longest sniper kill for bolt-action sniper category. It's have the highest damage,too. The Accuracy International AWM was invented by Accuracy International Manufacture in United Kingdom. It was used in Afghanistan wars and Iraq wars. The AWM rifle is a variant of the British Accuracy International Arctic Warfare (AW). Compared to the AW, the AWM has a longer bolt to accommodate larger magnum-length cartridges such as the .300 Winchester Magnum and the .338 Lapua Magnum. 

 

The AWM features a detachable box magazine which holds five rounds. It normally have effective range around 1,500 m (1,640 yd), but in November 2009 British Army sniper Corporal of Horse (CoH) Craig Harrison, a member of the Household Cavalry, setting the longest recorded sniper kill record in November 2009 by striking two Taliban machine gunners south of Musa Qala in Helmand Province in Afghanistan at a range of 2,475 m (2,707 yd) using a L115A3 rifle. Actually,this rifle is the ancestor of AWM sniper rifle,but now this rifle was chambered into two different sniper rifle,.300 Winchester Magnum and .338 Lapua Magnum.

.300 Winchester Magnum

 

.338 Lapua Magnum

 

 But,beside that two sniper rifle,many countries try to adopt the Accuracy International AWM. Here some countries that successfully adopt this magnificent sniper rifle..

1. Dutch Armed Forces

2. German Armed Forces

3. Norwegian Special Forces

4. Russian Alpha Group

5. Singapore Army

6. South Korean Special Forces