✅ Large-caliber sniper rifle Steyr HS .50 (Steyr HS .50)

Large-caliber sniper rifle Steyr HS .50

In 2016 Steyr Mannlicher , the famous Austrian arms manufacturing corporation, presented to the international community a new version of its Steyr HS .50 , equipped with a truncated barrel and a modified muzzle brake.
We somehow missed this point, although the sniper rifle definitely deserves attention. However, “better late than never” - let's now talk about what this 12.7 mm precision weapon is. The Steyr HS .50 large-caliber sniper rifle is designed for effective shooting at a distance of up to 1.5 km and can perform destruction tasks:

various unarmored and lightly armored vehicles, including aircraft (in parking lots);
radar stations;
missile launcher and artillery systems;
enemy manpower;
enemy snipers.

The history of the large-caliber sniper rifle Steyr HS .50

“ Steyr Mannlicher ”, after an unsuccessful attempt to create an innovative anti-material rifle Steyr IWS 2000 / AMR 5075 , which used the latest, but not quite conventional 15.2x169 mm cartridges for shooting, decided to take revenge.

NOTE: An anti-material rifle is a weapon designed to destroy lightly armored vehicles and technical means, that is, the enemy’s material base. There is no talk of any “antimatter”, and the term is not entirely correct... But it has already firmly entered into use.

The Steyr HS sniper rifle has a simpler design and increased shooting accuracy. A large number of modifications of this weapon have been reliably included in the production program of the Austrian company, and have been used with great success for more than ten years, while the number of exported models is constantly increasing.

Although the Steyr HS .50 sniper rifle is considered Austrian, in reality the first model was created in Germany, by engineer Heinrich Fortmeier.

Fortmeyer, a German by birth, born in the small town of Delbrück in North Rhine-Westphalia, began work in 1999 on the design of single-shot large-caliber rifles. A little later he will open his own armory. But at that moment Fortmeyer quickly interested specialists from the Austrian with his developments.

Steyr HS.50

Large-caliber sniper rifle Steyr HS.50 Steyr HS.50 is an Austrian large-caliber sniper rifle, first presented in 2004 at the ShotShow-2004 arms exhibition in Las Vegas, USA.

Ammo

12.7x99 mm (.50BMG)

.460 Steyr (11.65x90.5)

Large-caliber sniper rifle Steyr HS.50 Bush Camo in camouflage

Tactical and technical characteristics of the large-caliber sniper rifle Steyr HS.50

• Length - 1370 mm • Barrel - length 833 mm • Weight without cartridges - 12.4 kg • Power supply - single shot • Effective firing range - 1500 m

The Steyr HS.50 large-caliber sniper rifle is designed to combat enemy snipers, as well as to defeat lightly armored and unarmored equipment and enemy personnel.

Muzzle brake-compensator of the Steyr HS.50 rifle

The Steyr HS.50 is a single-shot bolt action rifle. The weapon is reloaded manually with the bolt open by inserting a cartridge into the receiver.

Steyr HS.50 rifle butt

The Steyr HS.50 sniper rifle has a flag-type safety located above the pistol grip. The butt of the rifle has a rubber butt pad to soften recoil and is equipped with additional support. Also, to reduce recoil, an effective slotted muzzle brake is installed on the barrel.

Bolt, universal guide, safety for Steyr HS.50M1 sniper rifle

On top of the Steyr HS.50 rifle, above the barrel, there is a special “Picatinny rail Mil. Std. 1913" for mounting various optical and night sights. The Steyr HS.50 large-caliber sniper rifle is equipped with a forward-folding bipod, which is attached to the fore-end.

Modifications of the Steyr HS.50 large-caliber sniper rifle

Steyr HS.460 is a rifle model chambered for the .460 Steyr cartridge (11.65x90.5 mm). Single shot rifle.

Steyr HS.50M1 large-caliber sniper rifle

Steyr HS.50M1 is a large-caliber magazine-fed sniper rifle. Reloading is manual, cartridges are supplied from a removable box-type magazine with a capacity of 5 rounds. The magazine receiver is located on the left side of the weapon, on the side of the receiver. Above the barrel, the universal Picatinny rail has been increased in length. In addition, Picatinny rails have been added to both sides of the Steyr HS.50M1 rifle.

Device

The Steyr HS .50 large-caliber rifle does not have a magazine, that is, it is single-shot. Charging is performed by a sliding bolt. When reloading, the cartridge is placed in the barrel with the bolt open. Locking is done by turning the bolt. The safety is a flag type, located above the pistol grip. Above the barrel there is a Picatinny rail for mounting a variety of sighting devices. There is a rubber shock absorber on the back of the stock to reduce recoil. Also, to reduce the recoil experienced by the shooter, a slotted muzzle brake-compensator is installed on the barrel. In the front part of the stock there are height-adjustable bipods.

Steyr HS .50 with special sight

Users[edit]

HS .50, profile view STEYR HS-50 Iranian sniper

Albania - Albanian army
Argentina - used by the Argentine Army
Austria - Austrian army
Bolivia
Cameroon
Iran - 800 rifles were purchased in 2006. [2]
Mexico - Used by the Mexican Army Special Forces Corps.
Namibia - Used by the Namibian Police Special Forces.
Russia - used by police and special forces. [6]
Syria - Syrian rebels have acquired the HS .460 through Turkey and other countries. [ citation needed
]
Türkiye - used by Turkish ground forces
Uruguay

Sayyad AM-50 operators[edit]

The AM-50 Sayyad is used by the Iranian Navy. Takavaran An Australian soldier trains an Iraqi soldier to use the AM-50 Sayyad. [7]

Asaib Ahl al-Haq [8]
Badr Organization [8]
Hamas [3]
Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba [8]
Hezbollah [3]
Houthis [3]
Iran
Iraq - Used by the Shia Militia, Iraqi Special Operations Forces,[2] and the Iraqi Military. [3] Iraqi Kurdistan - Peshmerga [3]

Islamic State [3]

Islamic State Sinai Province [3]

Kataib Sayyid al-Shuhada [8]

Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) [3]

Liwa al-Zulfiqar [8]

Liwa Fatemiyoun [9]

Saraya al-Aqida [8]

Saraya al-Khorasani [; ] [8]

Saraya al-Salam [8]

Saraya Ashura [8]

Syria [3] [1]

Syrian Social Nationalist Party [3]

Tahrir al-Sham [3]

Syrian National Army [3]

Options [edit]

HS .460 [edit]

The rifle is also available chambered in the proprietary .460 Steyr cartridge, designed for markets where private ownership of the .50 BMG is prohibited but .46 cartridges are not, such as California. The .460 caliber version is known as the HS .460

HS .50 M1[edit]

HS .50 M1

is an evolution of the HS .50. The biggest differences are that it feeds from a five-round magazine feeding horizontally to the left of the receiver, has a longer top Picatinny rail and more Picatinny rails on the side, an adjustable cheek piece, a new design lockable bipod and a monopod on the stock.

AM-50 Sayyad[edit]

Iran produces an unlicensed version called AM-50 Sayyad

. [4] Due to their widespread export, AM-50 rifles have also been sold or captured by many groups opposed to Iran, such as the Syrian rebels. [3]

Golan S-01 [edit]

In June 2022, media organizations associated with the Syrian government reported that Syria had begun production of an unlicensed variant of the rifle, dubbed the Golan S-01

in relation to
the Golan Heights
.
It is reported to be produced by the Syrian Defense Industrial Corporation, a state-owned company run by the Syrian Ministry of Defense. Unlike the original HS .50, the Golan S-01 fires the 12.7×108mm Soviet anti-material rifle cartridge. [ citation needed
] It is slightly heavier than the HS.50, weighing 13.5 kg and boasting an effective firing range of 1,600 meters, 100 meters longer than the previous generation of anti-tank rifles used by the Syrian Army. It is also 100mm longer than the HS .50 and has an overall length of 1470mm. [5]

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(In French). Archived from the original February 27, 2022. Retrieved February 27, 2022.

Design and features [edit]

Steyr HS +0.50

is a single action rifle. It does not have a built-in magazine, so each cartridge must be loaded directly into the ejection port and pushed into the chamber using the bolt. The fluted barrel is cold forged and has an effective firing range of up to 1500 m. It has an adjustable bipod, a muzzle brake that reduces recoil, and a Picatinny rail for mounting various optics.

However, due to customer demand, a recent change to the HS .50 included a detachable 5-round magazine that could be inserted into the left side of the rifle, similar to the Denel NTW-20.

An excerpt characterizing the Steyr HS .50

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