Two Ukrainian-made Snipex Alligator anti-materiel rifles chambered for 14.5×114mm

I think the proper term for these are anti-materiel rifle. Made for stopping vehicles.

...it says that in the title
- The title was edited between my post & yours I guess.

I like the plan, and it looks good, but I just feel that dual wielding them may not work.

Are those massive silencers on the end or something else?

Never seen a rifle that large before.

Could also be massive muzzle brakes. That rifle must kick like a horse on five different kinds of steroids.
- A muzzle brake is not a closed cylinder. There would also be no reason to make it that long.
They are suppressors (a.k.a. silencers). They work just like your car's muffler and both were invented by the same guy: the grandson of the inventor of the Maxim machine gun.
It will certainly not make these monster guns movie-quiet but it reduces their massive sound and flash signature making it harder to locate where they were shot from.
- They work just like your car's muffler and both were invented by the same guy: the grandson of the inventor of the Maxim machine gun.
  Well that's a cool TIL.
Flash suppressors. Snipers are very high-value targets.
Flash hiders maybe? Idk
Certainly looks that way. As if it wasn't big enough already. In most pictures I have seen they have only muzzle brakes, but in some they clearly have suppressors. A useful side-effect may be to reduce the visible muzzle fire for night operation.
It's a Supressor
- weight — 6.9 kg
  That's quite a suppressor.
  Compare to an M4 carbine, the current US issue rifle (not a suppressor on an M4, but the whole weapon):
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M4_carbine
  6.43 lb (2.92 kg) empty[4]
  7.75 lb (3.52 kg) with 30 rounds and sling
*supressors
- What's the difference?

I think this is how you get Americans back interested in helping Ukraine. Girl with ridiculously big guns.

Not just American's, all guys (and some gals) are horny for that
- I'm an American guy and horny for guns. The woman is just a nice addition.

Nah bruh she a tank girl
- She must love taking them out (idk enough about guns to know if this would actually work on tanks)

Those things conveniently double as a flag pole at a rural Ford dealership.

For when you need to kill a whole company standing in a line

That thing looks like it can cause some serious damage, even to things that are relatively well hardened.

Like, what would happen if a sniper fired that gun into the barrel of a T-80 that had an HE shell loaded?

Don't have to hit the barrels they usually aim for weak spots hoping for penetration then the round bounces around inside taking everyone out.
- Anti-material rifles were initially designed to take out tanks. However all modern tanks have thick enough armor to deflect its bullets.
  Now APC's, trucks, vans, and most engines and electronics are destroyed by these rounds. Hence the anti-material label now.
It would be hard to get the angle just right to get the bullet all the way down the barrel without it impacting the sides of the barrel
- Bullets are deflected along surprisingly sharp bends in a barrel (or any other pipe), so it would be sufficient to hit the tank gun muzzle roughly from the front, and it would probably hit a loaded projectile.
Technically, it would be sufficient of they lodge a bullet into the barrel. As soon as the tank fires, the bullet will wedge between the shell and the barrel, destroying - at least - the barrel.
Kaboom, I believe.
That thing might be able to kill someone just by the bullet passing by them.
- No.

Bitches love cannons

I like finding all these tfs-references

I want one.

Alucard in the background police girl!

"Bitches love cannons!"

Those would be overkill if you went blue whale hunting. Yikes haha

I always wanted to shoot the Halo sniper rifle

thats some anime type shit here. What happens when you fire that thing? are you gonna be flung back loneytoons style?

No just their enemies ala Bye Miss Laura

SnipeX Alligator anti-materiel rifle

It's to kill alligators, right? Right?

More like Krokodil and the people high on it:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desomorphine

Cobra assault cannon...state of the art bang-bang!

I don't really see the real benefit.

Assuming a BC of 1.05--I'm using the BC for a match-grade .50 BMG bullet, which might be high--and using a 921gr bullet with a 3300fps muzzle velocity, you're going to see about a 13' drop at 1000y. That's pretty significant.

If you compare that to a .338 Lapua Magnum, .685 BC , 250gr at 3030fps, you end up with a 18' drop at 1000y. Also significant.

So it's a bigger, heavier rifle, and it will definitely go through body armor, but you aren't really seeing a huge gain in functional range, and the ammunition (since 14.5x44mm is an HMG bullet) is likely not nearly as consistent as .338LM and so likely not as consistent at long range.

They aren't looking to shoot at soldiers with these things, they are for taking out vehicles and equipment.
I understood some of those words
- BC - ballistic coefficient. How your bullet reacts to the air. It's a combination of weight and shape of the bullet. Higher is better for long-range shooting.
  gr - grains. The weight of a bullet. 5.56x45mm (standard AR-15) uses bullet weights as low as 55gr, and as high as mid-70s. Lighter bullets are easier to push faster (which is why AR-15 rifles tend to be pushing bullets to 3200fps with pretty minimal recoil).
  fps - feet per second, usually measured at the muzzle. Bullets slow down as they head down range, due to air resistance.
  Bullets don't travel in a straight line; the second they leave the barrel, gravity is acting on them, and they're getting pulled down. So you're always shooting in an arc. For short ranges, that arc is pretty negligible. For a long range shot, you may need to be pointing significantly higher than your target. In the case of the rifle pictured, you should need to aim about 13' above a target that's 1000 yards away in order to have your bullet hit (that's your "hold over"). If there's wind--and there almost always is--you're going to need to compensate for that by aiming to the right or left ("windage"). A spotter makes this much easier; your spotter should be trainer to read winds. They should also be trained to see where the bullet hits, so you can make an adjustment, e.g., one target to the left, one half target low.
  (I've only gotten to shoot longer range a handful of times, the last time with a spotter, and the spotter made it so easy to get on target. Check out 9HoleReviews on YouTube for examples of how that works with a really excellent marksman and spotter.)
Anti-materiel is it's primary purpose. For that 14.5mm beats the .338. The pictured weapons are for penetrating engine blocks that are stationary or moving with simple motion, within a greater effective range, not body armour (but will all the same). Long range extreme precision is secondary but is still a feature of 50cal and 14.5mm (top 3 records sniper kills are with a 50cal/14.5mm: #3 is actually with one of those type rifles).
Maybe it's just easily accessible ammo.
Yeah, other calibers are available, but this might be the most abundant around.
You forget it's not a precision rifle, and it's not meant to be used against Infantry directly. It's accuracy isnt meant to be measured in minute of angle but instead minute of APC