
Be sure you take them before you destroy the shipments with thermite during the quest How Little We Know.
Gomorrah - sometimes 3 in poor condition can be found in the room with gun shipments. Camp McCarran - on top of a bed in the First Recon tent, where Sterling is. Camp McCarran - can be bought from Daniel Contreras. Caesar's Legion safehouse - one can be found in poor condition. Wrangler inside a very hard locked case. 188 trading post - can be bought from the arms merchant after level 11.Ītomic Wrangler casino - one can be found on the top floor, first door of the Atomic. Their value is in being able to precisely target and disable enemy assets from long range for a relatively low cost.Īnti-materiel rifles can also be used in non-offensive roles for safely destroying unexploded ordnance.Fallout Wikia lists the following locations for the sniper rifle: They can also be used against stationed enemy aircraft, small watercraft, communications equipment, radar equipment, crew served weapons and similar targets. While modern tanks and most other armored vehicles are too well protected to be affected by anti-materiel rifles, the guns are still effective for attacking unarmored or lightly armored vehicles. The origins of the anti-materiel rifle go back to the First World War, during which the first anti-tank rifles appeared. Firing several 12.7×99mm NATO, 12.7×108mm Russian, or larger calibers from the (unsupported) standing position or in a kneeling position would be very uncomfortable for the operator. Bipods and monopods and muzzle brakes are used as accessories to employ these rifles as comfortably and accurately as possible.
The recoil produced by the employed cartridges dictates that these rifles are designed to be fired from the prone position. The large cartridges are required to be able to fire projectiles containing usable payloads, such as explosives, armor-piercing cores, incendiaries, or combinations of these, as found in the Raufoss Mk 211 projectile.ĭue to the considerable size and weight of anti-materiel rifles and other support equipment, sniper cells operating in 2- or 3-man or larger teams have become a necessity. In general, anti-materiel rifles are chambered for 12.7×99mm NATO (. Īnti-materiel rifles are similar in form and appearance to modern sniper rifles and can often serve in that role, though they are usually chambered for cartridges more powerful than are normally required for killing a human and can operate at a greater range. The offensive use of anti-materiel rifles or Special Application Sniper Rifles (SASR) is termed Hard Target Interdiction (HTI) by the United States military.
2 List of anti-materiel rifles by country.