[Newsbot]

Title: Canadian rifles may have fallen into Yemen rebel hands, likely via Saudi Arabia
Category: World
Posted By: Hyack
Date: 2016-02-22 10:27:51
Canadian

[DrCaleb]

I'm conflicted. I don't like the idea of Canadian business adding to global conflict . . . but they will likely be shooting at Saudis . . .

[Hyack]

Any weapons used in a conflict have a chance of being captured and used by the opposing forces or passed down the line to others. Why should Canadian firearms be any different? Myself, I'm quite pleased the Canadian armed forces are using weapons made in Canada as opposed to importing them.

[BeaverFever]

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I'm quite pleased the Canadian armed forces are using weapons made in Canada as opposed to importing them.

Well, the Saudis are using them anyway. I believe the Army's .50 cal rifle is still the US-made McMillan Tac-50, which they acquired in the early 2000s. I believe the Army picked up the PGW Timberwolf for medium-range though...

[Hyack]

BeaverFever BeaverFever:

$1:

I'm quite pleased the Canadian armed forces are using weapons made in Canada as opposed to importing them.

Well, the Saudis are using them anyway. I believe the Army's .50 cal rifle is still the US-made McMillan Tac-50, which they acquired in the early 2000s. I believe the Army picked up the PGW Timberwolf for medium-range though...

If you had taken the time to read the story you may have noticed the .50 cal is an LRT-3 sniper rifle made by Winnipeg-based PGW Defence Technologies.

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"They're so distinctive visually that there aren't many rifles that look like them," ARES director Nic Jenzen-Jones said of the LRT-3, a .50 calibre sniper rifle with a potential range of nearly two kilometres.

[Khar]

Hyack Hyack:

BeaverFever BeaverFever:

$1:

I'm quite pleased the Canadian armed forces are using weapons made in Canada as opposed to importing them.

Well, the Saudis are using them anyway. I believe the Army's .50 cal rifle is still the US-made McMillan Tac-50, which they acquired in the early 2000s. I believe the Army picked up the PGW Timberwolf for medium-range though...

If you had taken the time to read the story you may have noticed the .50 cal is an LRT-3 sniper rifle made by Winnipeg-based PGW Defence Technologies.

$1:

"They're so distinctive visually that there aren't many rifles that look like them," ARES director Nic Jenzen-Jones said of the LRT-3, a .50 calibre sniper rifle with a potential range of nearly two kilometres.

If you had taken the time to read the post you quoted ( ) you'd have noticed he was talking about what our army is using, and not what was obtained from the Saudis through PGW. The only PGW weaponry currently employed by the Canadian army is the Timberwolf, which Beaverfever already mentioned. Source. Source about a move from our more well known McMillan Tac-50s to the C3A1 (using the McMillan stock through a British company, Parker-Hale), and possible plans to phase into new equipment from Accuracy International (British).

[DrCaleb]

Khar Khar:

. . . and possible plans to phase into new equipment from Accuracy International (British).

Their .50 is supposed to be one of the most accurate semi-auto rifles out there. Man, I'd love to learn how to shoot one. One day perhaps . . .

Or that LRT-3.

[BRAH]

Canada's Fast and Furious.

[BeaverFever]

Khar Khar:

Hyack Hyack:

BeaverFever BeaverFever:

Well, the Saudis are using them anyway. I believe the Army's .50 cal rifle is still the US-made McMillan Tac-50, which they acquired in the early 2000s. I believe the Army picked up the PGW Timberwolf for medium-range though...

If you had taken the time to read the story you may have noticed the .50 cal is an LRT-3 sniper rifle made by Winnipeg-based PGW Defence Technologies.

$1:

"They're so distinctive visually that there aren't many rifles that look like them," ARES director Nic Jenzen-Jones said of the LRT-3, a .50 calibre sniper rifle with a potential range of nearly two kilometres.

If you had taken the time to read the post you quoted ( ) you'd have noticed he was talking about what our army is using, and not what was obtained from the Saudis through PGW. The only PGW weaponry currently employed by the Canadian army is the Timberwolf, which Beaverfever already mentioned. Source. Source about a move from our more well known McMillan Tac-50s to the C3A1 (using the McMillan stock through a British company, Parker-Hale), and possible plans to phase into new equipment from Accuracy International (British).

^ What he said.