Pindad SPR
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The Pindad SPR is a sniper rifle produced by PT. Pindad, Indonesia. This gun allows the shooter to adjust the height of the position and stability by regulating the bipod rifle on the bottom front of the barrel, look at the target with a snap type of telescope making sniper rifle with high accuracy. Sniper rifle is available in three variants: SPR-1 and SPR-3 are chambered with 7.62x51mm NATO while SPR-2 is chambered with .50 BMG
.50 BMG
The .50 Browning Machine Gun or 12.7×99mm NATO is a cartridge developed for the Browning .50 caliber machine gun in the late 1910s. Entering service officially in 1921, the round is based on a greatly scaled-up .30-06 cartridge...

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History

This rifle was created to answer the needs of the Indonesian military would use sniper rifle with high capacity and a more affordable price than other sniper rifles like the expensive Zastava M93 Black Arrow
Zastava M93 Black Arrow
The M93 Black Arrow is a 12.7mm or .50 caliber anti-materiel rifle developed and manufactured by Zastava Arms.The M93 Black Arrow is designed on the basis of the Mauser system, which was, during its one hundred years long combat history, proven to be one of the most accurate and reliable...

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Zastava Arms
Zastava Arms is a Serbian manufacturer of firearms and artillery. It was founded in 1853 when it cast its first cannons. It is currently the leading producer of firearms in Serbia and is a large contributor to the local defence industry...

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SPR-1

This gun at first glance it can be said for the military version of the standard sports sniper rifle bolt action type, by adopting Remington 700
Remington 700
The Model 700 series of firearms are bolt-action rifles manufactured by Remington Arms since 1962. All are based on the same centerfire bolt action. They often come with a 3, 4 or 5-round internal magazine depending on caliber, some of which have a floor-plate for quick-unloading, and some of which...

, chambered with 7.62x51mm NATO manually inserted one by one because the rifle is not using magazine. With the bipod, butt-hole stock thumb model and cheekpiece (stand cheek shooter) which is height adjustable, equipped with an optical viewfinder makes it a sniper rifle accurate.

SPR-2

Basic specifications of the SPR-2 rifle similar to the type of SPR-1 with still adopt the system of bolt action mechanism will however have better features than the previous version of a magazine chamber, an adjustable butt, and the ability to penetrate the two-centimeter thick steel plate in distance of 500 meters. Although inspired products antimaterial existing rifle, the presence of SPR-2 tended to design their own from PT Pindad. Although in some figures, still take the design of Black Arrow M93 rifle and NTW-20.

SPR-3

SPR-3 has the same features but with SPR-2 and SPR-1 sniper rifles have a range of skills as far as 700 meters with the ability to penetrate the thick steel plate at 3 centimeters.

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