This Ukrainian sniper rifle is bigger than a human | War On Tape | Daily Mail

[@joewentz7839]

Heard much about Tony Neophytou in South Africa - who has a legendary reputation in weapons design, but this is the first interview where I hear him giving his take on a specific weapon. What a knowledgeable expert - very obviously a master in his field.

[@ricardosoto5770]

South Africa master gun designer!

[@catchaser52]

I wonder who trained him? Natural ability?

[@catchaser52]

06:58 start many books behind him. Tony Neophytou.

[@Lordnetanyahu]

They bringing those for russia

[@PaulKowalski-zk5dt]

@@ricardosoto5770

[@justandy333]

I'm loving these kind of videos where they actually let the expert speak. So many times you see interviews and the expert can't get a word in edgeways because the news anchor or reporter thinks its all about them and keeps interrupting. This video was a breath of fresh air.

[@larrymcgill5508]

This “expert” is way out of step with today’s sniper.

[@CaptainAndy99]

US Secret Service would not see that rifle.

[@kevinmullner4280]

[@Upsideround]

They might see it but it will take them several minutes to react to it.

[@brettbenson7690]

Apparently they can't see an AR-15.

[@concernedaussie1330]

@@Upsideround😂 gold

[@salted6422]

@@Upsideround AR-15 is a military grade offensive assault rifle that fires fully-automatic "cop killer" bullets accurately AND it has a pistol grip. Absolutely horrifying.

[@CreatorCade]

Horizon's Lord has to be one of the coolest names for a sniper rifle.

[@robhill4352]

Long boi

[@supero69]

That what she said😂

[@walnzell9328]

Long boi apparently translates to long wood.

[@matthewtanner5127]

@@walnzell9328 bois*

[@IMMLF]

This is not a sniper rifle to be honest. It can be called an anti-material rifle probably.

[@Neojhun]

It's both.

[@lordraydens]

they literally called it an anti-materiel rifle

[@ruzziasht349]

You didn't watch the video did you?

[@atenrok]

Did you actually watch the video?

[@IMMLF]

​@@atenrok What does the title of the video say?

[@Mr-Science-Stevens]

Thanks

[@Ffsat8]

Slava Ukraini 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💙💛🇺🇦 🔱 🇺🇦✌🏻 !

[@khalidabara5662]

650K fewer Ukrainians in the world and counting ☕

[@muhcharona]

Slavi depopulation.

[@gaveintothedarkness]

11:34 the M2 Browning they are showing is an M249. The M2 is the big ol machine gun

[@11ride4life]

Came here to say this SO dumb

[@MindMorsels101]

if im not mistaken right after that they show shot footage of a 240B as well, breach looks to be thicker than the 249 along with a tripod mount

[@LTCDRRAZOR]

Was about to say the same thing, I miss my SAW, just not carrying it.

[@SirBilliam96]

I was just checking to see if anyone else mentioned this! How tf does anyone even slightly versed in firearms get them confused??

[@LTCDRRAZOR]

@@SirBilliam96 Key phrase "Slightly versed", I think this is like that best guns channel, that has people who do cursory research on topics that they don't know a huge amount about, but know enough to sound "knowledgeable" to those who don't know better. They write a script, and have someone else read said script, who never sees the videl.

[@ravndrup]

Thank you, - great video

[@RobertMattison-pp6uf]

Agreed.

[@jayschoenhaaar5369]

Same round as the PTRD-41 and PTRS-41 used in WW2 as an anti-tank rifle. I have a PTRD, it’s close to six feet tall and it is still in use by both sides in the Ukraine war.

[@Dsm4g631Evo]

When I was in the Army, we used prisms for long distances. Can’t get into details but it really helped with the elevation.

[@orangewarm1]

lol why cant you get into details? why talk at all?

[@DailyFrankPeter]

Helps maintain social distancing.

[@deleter1823]

Got a 30mm shoulder fire rifle weights 250+ rounds but it’s really fun to use ! The length is around 14 feet . The trick to absorb the recoil was the springs added to absorb recoil .

[@alexross26]

I dont think whomever wrote this understands much about guns

[@gergelygaramvolgyi7433]

"It has a bolt action - which makes it more accurate..." 😂😂😂😂😂

[@Zach-ku6eu]

@03:21 As a triple combat veteran I'll say this for the layman. Under the Geneva Convention - A Uniform or A Firearm IS considered a 'Material Target'. Not that Russia, China, and all Arab countries care about what are civilian or combatants!

[@Dee-emSaleng-t1l]

Anti material riffle❌ Anti everything riffle✅

[@RamadaArtist]

It's crazy that "interview with Tony Neophytu" isn't somehow part of the video title, or even the description, because that fact alone would draw a lot of views from people interested in firearms history and development.

[@eaglesclaws8]

shooting treads off tracked vehicles, shooting engine blocks on light armored vehicles, counter sniper too, imagine you only need to get close for personnel

[@kensmith5694]

I think the tracks would be a hard thing to damage. They are big hunks of iron. Engines generally need some venting etc so there will be weak spots on them. Also: The weak points on something with armor are generally towards the back because they expect the enemy to be in front and not off to one side.

[@Joe-jv5mm]

Tony should have his Own Channel his Expert Knowledge is Top Drawer

[@RandB_Aquatics]

Guy shooting the gun while walking is the Goat

[@volkernimke312]

Slawa Ukraine 🇺🇦💙💛👍❤️

[@evilfingers4302]

Kinda look like the Anti Tank Rifles the Soviet Army used during WW2 against German Panzers I, II, III and IV.

[@boknows3841]

That is my first deer rifle, we called it The Bubba Bazooka. It had a Warner and Swayze 15 - 60x scope which came out of a B 48 airforce bomber.

[@nickhockings443]

The Barrett light 50 is an important weapon, especially for US forces, BUT anti-material rifles were very much around and in use before it came on the market, precisely because there are plenty of things less heavily armoured than an MBT that are very much worth shooting. Compared to either a mortar or an ATGM, you can carry many more rounds, and are much less likely to be located when you fire an anti-material rifle.

[@Lars_Paulsen]

You will get the same destruction with a 50 cal mk-211 Raufoss, but it's a bit expensive with Norwegian ammo.

[@Patriot2001-yl5pf]

Thank you for your explanation

[@Bshwag]

first thing he says is wrong The Anzio 20mm is both longer and heavier.

[@brianfhunter]

..... in action.... in ukraine.... dude makes such a long pause between words that you cant really tell if he is saying longest rifle in ukraine, or that the longest rifle is being used in ukraine... But yeah, i agree with you, but can we really call The Anzio a sniper or Anti Material Rifle? its more like a cannon... you dont kill people with that, you remove them from existence.

[@Bshwag]

@@brianfhunter 🤣 your not wrong.

[@Ilovesarahbforeva]

Why do you have the bullet and casing coming out of the rifle in your animation

[@EwayPtown]

2.3 mile shot is crazy

[@TheSgtShade]

The blue tape kind of defeats all the camouflage efforts……

[@dmitrikulkevicius9161]

I think it's for friendly drones if they detect him.

[@walnzell9328]

@@dmitrikulkevicius9161 This, and to keep friendly troops from shooting them. The Ukrainian military has a lot of mismatching uniforms being given to them, so to identify each other, they use different colored tape. There's yellow, blue, and green. I think the color of the tape also has something to do with either department of the military or region of operation.

[@J-IFWBR]

@@dmitrikulkevicius9161 idk about drones specifically, but FF is one of the most common causes of death on the battlefield, not only in ukraine, but also e.g. for Allied troops in Afghanistan FF was not a rare problem. So it might be worth to lose some camo ability in exchange for some less likely FF incidents.

[@patrickmcardle4771]

If you are close enough to see the tape, then this rifle is not the one to use.😂❤

[@dmitrikulkevicius9161]

@@patrickmcardle4771 Scout drone can see a lot more from a higher altitude.

[@fatdad64able]

The bolt action is not only for accuracy. You cannot silence a rifle effectively unless the breech stays closed when firing.

[@mrdyvig]

4:34 Uuhh the. 50 cal sniper rifle was "invented" during Vietnam, and a sniper called "White Feather," if I am not mistaken. And he modified a Browning .50 cal machine gun, and fitted it with a scope.

[@khalidabara5662]

El concepto ya existía desde la WW2.

[@501-notimplemented4]

he said anti material rifle not sniper.

[@mrdyvig]

@@khalidabara5662 the .308, not the .50 caliber.

[@khalidabara5662]

@@mrdyvig Usar armas Anti-Tanques como "rifles" de francotirador ya existía desde la WW2.

[@asullivan4047]

Interesting/informative/entertaining.

[@DerdOn0ner]

Tony looks exactly how I imagined a weapon smith to look like

[@gruntopolouski5919]

Skipping right over Carlos “White Feather” Hathcock, who used an M2 with a scope, crushing the record for a long time.

[@depleteduraniumcowboy3516]

My understanding of wind from my experience of an M1, which is famous for it's accuracy, is that it is most effected the closer it is to the barrel. Modern tanks have crosswind detectors, but of course those only measure the crosswind where the tank is.

[@WillyKling]

No, it is opposite. When it slows down it is more affected by the wind because of the time it is exposed to it.

[@depleteduraniumcowboy3516]

​@@WillyKling Makes sense. As I said I was a tanker and that was what we were told. Either way, we never missed. Also as I said crosswind detectors on tanks only measure the crosswind of where the tank is. If local topology creates different wind patterns where the target is then ya, have a spotter, reload fast, adjust as necessary, service the target, and GTFO.

[@makevelicustoms]

Mandingo rifle 💪🏾

[@burns2899]

Because there is no curvature affecting the bullet

[@brettbenson7690]

You practically have to be a physicist to be a sniper at that range.

[@BlkRaven1]

There's a joke saying there are two PHDs for every three Ukrainian soldiers and two prison terms for every three russians

[@ailinofaolin8897]

Snipers don't use the coriolis equation for shooting nor does artillery units firing at much longer ranges, distance, wind speed and direction are the only factors required.

[@Waves-w6k]

Sniper uses a spotter

[@ricardosoto5770]

Tony Neophytou! The legend! He built a 20mm rifles that uses German WW2 fighter ammo.

[@kensmith5694]

I think you may be under estimating the effect of the weapon on the war. It has enough range that the enemy may not be sure where the round came from. Instead of taking out the lead vehicle, the shooter has the option to disable one part way down the column. In Ukraine this gives the Russians a very bad problem because the path they are following is the only one they know doesn't have mines on it. Thus taking out the middle truck, effectively spits the convoy into two groups.

[@syem1698]

Slava Ukraina 🇺🇦

[@dontbanwarren]

You can call that whatever you want, that's the Intervention to me.

[@LeicaM11]

I will never understand, how those tumbling RPGs ever meet any target😅

[@johnfoster5955]

Because that thing is, it’s so quiet you couldn’t holler hear it. That’s a dangerous working so you can’t hear nothing you’re in trouble.

[@janrt1735]

overcompensating when overcompensating

[@tomtrick7051]

Slava 🇺🇦💪

[@Joe_1sr9]

Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦

[@meme4one]

10:12 the lack of basic soldiering here is shocking. Trying to shoulder fire a rifle like that. Zero chance of a hit past 10m and dragging his ak muzzle in the dirt too. Basically a dead man walking.

[@JG-nm9zk]

peak russian training

[@SwabJockeyJim]

The Coriolis effect depends upon the direction you are firing.

[@philandrawis6232]

its just similar to the British boy's anti-tank rifle that was built in 1938 and served in the opening days of WW2 - the Russians had a similar one also in WW2 but a single shot no box magazine so after 80 years there is nothing new with the exception that this has a silencer at the end of it

[@bronsonperich9430]

The PTRD rifles in the video are the WW2 anti-tank rifles you are talking about.

[@Pierceserrano96]

It really does resemble the sniper rifle from Halo

[@MichaelBobo-ut7fd]

Yeah you left out Corona the heat coming up from concrete and other services the dissipate heat different

[@Yaroslav_Tselovanskyi]

First you show the barrel being removable, then you show an expert saying "the barrel can't be taken down", so which one is it?

[@Aphichat.]

WW2 can not.

[@codaalive5076]

Beside this nonsense, he boasted about three longest kills, at the same time rifle was described as "against material". He has no clue about war&weapons&Ukraine.

[@allanmacauley]

Tony's point was that the barrel isn't quickly detachable 8:22

[@gruntopolouski5919]

Bullets ALWAYS arc. They never travel in a straight line…. Unless you count the time spent in the barrel.

[@donnywilkes6417]

Bigger than Zelenski for sure.

[@keijojaanimets4460]

14,5 was originally antitank gun!

[@SamanthaMorrison-zp1lx]

it is NOT a "sniper" rifle; it is an anti-tank or anti-armor rifle.

[@ervinxx2545]

6:18 - 6:30 to use a rifle for a "distance" need "Chosen Shoter's" (Sniper's), otherwise a Javelin or something like that, cane be handover by a simple soldier..

[@WillyKling]

I see that they are very effective against ballistic plates in the holy land.

[@gaptaxi]

And the British .55 inch Anti Tank Rifle, the Boyes?

[@pedrokd5439]

😢😢

[@Kokopellli]

A cool video, thank you!

[@danielhotsinpiller7019]

LMAO they pointed to a SAW and called it A M2 Browning LMFAO!!!!!

[@alden1132]

"I wonder what that photographer is filming on the ground? Perhaps he's filming whatever is making that booming sound?"

[@Tyius420]

SnipeX Gator is a anti armor rifle

[@RobertMattison-pp6uf]

Thanks for making this video and posting onto KZbin.

[@videodude8137]

No footage here. It is digital video. 😅 No film no footage. 😂

[@almightyIrie]

1:23 "at THIS distance, he will carefully need take into account wind..." - what distance?

[@darrenmarshall8278]

A rifle for mathematicians

[@HenryBartlett-b1l]

I doubt that it will make any difference.

[@EdMshna]

In the Korean war, I heard that a few machine gunners can hit a man over a mile away on the next mountain using a 50 caliber. Also German Mauser rifles had a 1000 meter iron sight.

[@WillyKling]

Mausers had sight out to 2500 meters and they were for volly fire. This was typical of all military rifles of that era. You can't expect to hit anything at that range.

[@bronsonperich9430]

WW2 bolt action rifles were made for 1000m engagements.

[@Lookingformorefun]

"During the 2022-2023 NBA season, the average height of NBA players was about 6'6” or 198.6cm tall"

[@larrymcgill5508]

Tony is a little out of date. Optics and ballistic computers have been so far advanced today that 1 to 2 MOA at a thousand meters is common place. Further more, the science of designing munitions for consistent, critical match performance is also much more developed as well.

[@simenscott]

Longer barrel is hard to maintain accuracy. Because the barrel is flexible and if you shoot more than a few shots, it way out of accuracy due to heat affect .

[@dsloop3907]

Barret keeps the Barret 50 caliber rifles that the LEO's from California send in for service.

[@jayruggiero8955]

No different than the Original Ptdr ww2 anti-tank rifle

[@Nicosshalagalanis]

Such a beauty beast ❤

[@RealAaron317]

They used barrets against the Talben in Afgan

[@Joe_1sr9]

Russia did have the most armoured vehicles……. Not anymore……..

[@brianfhunter]

Now Ukraine have the biggest vehicle graveyard in the world...

[@asian_inasuit9239]

Ghost? Well well well.

[@1ForTheShieldz]

Sc2?

[@paydn202]

its not a sniper rifle it is anti vehicle its made to explode engine blocks

[@DAVIDGREGORYKERR]

Could they not have used a Barrett M107 .50 Caliber Sniper Rifle.

[@Pvosinc]

gets all super camo - puts blue on helmet - what is the enemy colour blind like a deer 😂

[@natanvanhelden385]

Actually blue is one of the few colours deer see very well hahaha. It's why hunters often wear orange camo. Deer barely see it, but for humans it's very visible!

[@Pvosinc]

indeed so do humans defeats the purpose of camo --

[@andrewbailey6513]

If it’s an anti material rifle why does the title say it’s sniper kit

[@Astory979]

Distance , acceleration , power and do they make there own shot ?

[@JOWELABOTENG]

who invented that weapon as long as no weapon affects innocent people why not

[@pariscommune9742]

This is an Anti Tank Rifle and not Sniper Rifle

[@bronsonperich9430]

How does a Brit do a story about anti-materiel rifles, anti-tank rifles and sniper rifles without talking about the Boys Anti-Tank rifle?

[@jamescapaldi6362]

Bigger Than A Human That Long, And Bigger It Would Be Classified As A Cannon, 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻,

[@Astory979]

And bends !

[@zdenekoldrichmarek2867]

50Caliber MG rounds were used in Vietnam GOT IT. inthe 1960's !

[@RelaxationMusic1611]

It is a nowadays Ukrainian longbow :D

[@stephenaddair1337]

I want one

[@averdadeestalafora.2578]

Deus abençoe a Ucrânia e seus soldados 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦👍😊❤

[@informationageenterprise2184]

What was blurred at 11:52?

[@kickinthegob]

Coriolis effect? You mean spin drift. No sniper factors in the spin of the earth. If they did, then the calculation wouldn't vary from rifle to rifle.

[@moina1746]

Viva Ucrânia ❤❤❤🎉