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.
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.
@@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.
@@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.
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.
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.
shooting treads off tracked vehicles, shooting engine blocks on light armored vehicles, counter sniper too, imagine you only need to get close for personnel
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.
@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!
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
@@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.
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.
..... 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.
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 .
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 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.
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 .
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
@12:04 This guy makes guns. He doesn't have hundreds and thousands of hours looking through the scope and shooting. Hitting a plane is not that different from bird hunting. The algebra is very similar. Not everyone can do it of course. Shoot ahead of the bird and timing.
Let's be clear about what happens when a round like that hits a human being? Here is a human: >----|o This is that same human after being hit: > ???? o All you find are the feet and the head. Everything else gets *KA-SPLOOSHERED* into a fine, brown mist. Why brown, instead of pink or red? Because that bullet has so much energy, it *KA-SPLOOSHERS* you, _and_ cooks the pink mist to a lovely medium-well.
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
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..
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A bolt action has nothing to do with accuracy, only with how fast you can fire. I personally prefer a semi-auto rifle. Do some research before you open your mouth
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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.
This “expert” is way out of step with today’s sniper.
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.
South Africa master gun designer!
I wonder who trained him? Natural ability?
06:58 start many books behind him. Tony Neophytou.
They bringing those for russia
US Secret Service would not see that rifle.
They might see it but it will take them several minutes to react to it.
Apparently they can't see an AR-15.
@@Upsideround😂 gold
@@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.
11:34 the M2 Browning they are showing is an M249. The M2 is the big ol machine gun
Came here to say this SO dumb
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
Was about to say the same thing, I miss my SAW, just not carrying it.
I was just checking to see if anyone else mentioned this! How tf does anyone even slightly versed in firearms get them confused??
@@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.
Long boi
That what she said😂
Long boi apparently translates to long wood.
@@walnzell9328 bois*
This is not a sniper rifle to be honest. It can be called an anti-material rifle probably.
It's both.
they literally called it an anti-materiel rifle
You didn't watch the video did you?
Did you actually watch the video?
@@atenrok What does the title of the video say?
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650K fewer Ukrainians in the world and counting ☕
Slavi depopulation.
Thank you, - great video
Agreed.
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.
Thanks
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.
When I was in the Army, we used prisms for long distances. Can’t get into details but it really helped with the elevation.
lol why cant you get into details? why talk at all?
shooting treads off tracked vehicles, shooting engine blocks on light armored vehicles, counter sniper too, imagine you only need to get close for personnel
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.
LMAO they pointed to a SAW and called it A M2 Browning LMFAO!!!!!
Slawa Ukraine 🇺🇦💙💛👍❤️
Tony should have his Own Channel his Expert Knowledge is Top Drawer
@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!
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.
El concepto ya existía desde la WW2.
he said anti material rifle not sniper.
@@khalidabara5662 the .308, not the .50 caliber.
@@mrdyvig Usar armas Anti-Tanques como "rifles" de francotirador ya existía desde la WW2.
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?
WW2 can not.
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.
Tony's point was that the barrel isn't quickly detachable 8:22
Kinda look like the Anti Tank Rifles the Soviet Army used during WW2 against German Panzers I, II, III and IV.
You practically have to be a physicist to be a sniper at that range.
There's a joke saying there are two PHDs for every three Ukrainian soldiers and two prison terms for every three russians
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.
Sniper uses a spotter
Slava Ukraina 🇺🇦
The blue tape kind of defeats all the camouflage efforts……
I think it's for friendly drones if they detect him.
@@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.
@@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.
If you are close enough to see the tape, then this rifle is not the one to use.😂❤
@@patrickmcardle4771
Scout drone can see a lot more from a higher altitude.
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.
Thanks for making this video and posting onto TH-cam.
first thing he says is wrong The Anzio 20mm is both longer and heavier.
..... 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.
@@brianfhunter 🤣 your not wrong.
Skipping right over Carlos “White Feather” Hathcock, who used an M2 with a scope, crushing the record for a long time.
Guy shooting the gun while walking is the Goat
Tony Neophytou! The legend! He built a 20mm rifles that uses German WW2 fighter ammo.
"During the 2022-2023 NBA season, the average height of NBA players was about 6'6” or 198.6cm tall"
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.
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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 .
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.
No, it is opposite. When it slows down it is more affected by the wind because of the time it is exposed to it.
@@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.
At 4:45 The Allies did not invent the tank in the first world war, the British invented it.
Mandingo rifle 💪🏾
overcompensating when overcompensating
A cool video, thank you!
oh yeah. didn't the ukrainians design and make the rifle for the world's longest sniper shot? :O i had totally forgotten about that :)
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 .
2.3 mile shot is crazy
I will never understand, how those tumbling RPGs ever meet any target😅
Helps maintain social distancing.
Thank you for your explanation
Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦
Yeah you left out Corona the heat coming up from concrete and other services the dissipate heat different
Carlos Hathcock mounted his scope on an M2 machine gun. I think the idea came from there.
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.
You can call that whatever you want, that's the Intervention to me.
You will get the same destruction with a 50 cal mk-211 Raufoss, but it's a bit expensive with Norwegian ammo.
"I wonder what that photographer is filming on the ground? Perhaps he's filming whatever is making that booming sound?"
The bolt action is not only for accuracy. You cannot silence a rifle effectively unless the breech stays closed when firing.
Bigger than Zelenski for sure.
No footage here. It is digital video. 😅 No film no footage. 😂
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.
Distance , acceleration , power and do they make there own shot ?
Interesting/informative/entertaining.
The Coriolis effect depends upon the direction you are firing.
Ghost? Well well well.
Sc2?
it is NOT a "sniper" rifle; it is an anti-tank or anti-armor rifle.
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.
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?
Why do you have the bullet and casing coming out of the rifle in your animation
I see that they are very effective against ballistic plates in the holy land.
Russia did have the most armoured vehicles……. Not anymore……..
Now Ukraine have the biggest vehicle graveyard in the world...
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.
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.
WW2 bolt action rifles were made for 1000m engagements.
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.
peak russian training
Barret keeps the Barret 50 caliber rifles that the LEO's from California send in for service.
I dont think whomever wrote this understands much about guns
What was blurred at 11:52?
1:23 "at THIS distance, he will carefully need take into account wind..." - what distance?
It really does resemble the sniper rifle from Halo
Because there is no curvature affecting the bullet
If it’s an anti material rifle why does the title say it’s sniper kit
They used barrets against the Talben in Afgan
A rifle for mathematicians
@12:04 This guy makes guns. He doesn't have hundreds and thousands of hours looking through the scope and shooting. Hitting a plane is not that different from bird hunting. The algebra is very similar. Not everyone can do it of course. Shoot ahead of the bird and timing.
Let's be clear about what happens when a round like that hits a human being? Here is a human: >----|o This is that same human after being hit: > ???? o All you find are the feet and the head. Everything else gets *KA-SPLOOSHERED* into a fine, brown mist. Why brown, instead of pink or red? Because that bullet has so much energy, it *KA-SPLOOSHERS* you, _and_ cooks the pink mist to a lovely medium-well.
This is an Anti Tank Rifle and not Sniper Rifle
What damage would these rounds do to the breech if fired directly into the tanks main gun barrel?
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Bullets ALWAYS arc. They never travel in a straight line…. Unless you count the time spent in the barrel.
Bigger Than A Human That Long, And Bigger It Would Be Classified As A Cannon, 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻,
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
The PTRD rifles in the video are the WW2 anti-tank rifles you are talking about.
Does this rifle fire the round from a DSHKA(probably wrong spelling but u know what i mean)?
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..
Such a beauty beast ❤
Suppressor 1 metre lol
who invented that weapon as long as no weapon affects innocent people why not
The Rifle Is Not Bagger Than Human, It Is Longer Than Some Humans Are Tall, If It Was Bigger Than A Person, Being That Long It Would Be To Heavy To Carry, Even With Two Guys, It Would Have To Be On A Buggy, Think About It,👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
its not a sniper rifle it is anti vehicle its made to explode engine blocks
And bends !
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.
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A bolt action has nothing to do with accuracy, only with how fast you can fire. I personally prefer a semi-auto rifle. Do some research before you open your mouth
No different than the Original Ptdr ww2 anti-tank rifle
It is a nowadays Ukrainian longbow :D
Oh jeez.
Freakin Children these days.
I have a Fly Fishing pole, BIGGER THAN ANDRE THE GIANT 😂
... i have a ladder, bigger than my house too 🤣
SnipeX Gator is a anti armor rifle
50Caliber MG rounds were used in Vietnam GOT IT. inthe 1960's !
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You might know what is happening in Bangladesh🇧🇩 currently. Students are protesting for equal right among all students, because In our country, 56% are selected in government job, and admission by quota. And only 44% selected by merit.
Today BCL (Bangladesh Student League of government party) att'acked protesters. 500 are inju'red. 20 in ICU and 7 di'ed.
At this moment we just need international awareness. Nothing but just share that in your timeline. Indian news channels are also helping us.
Additionally, our press and government is mostly corrupted.
We need international support to get relief from that issue and go forword peacefully.
Credit,
Raihanur...
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