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| | Gepard Hungarian rifle family (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) |
 | | The original purpose of development was to create one man-operated rifles with high caliber, high muzzle velocity and high accuracy, for special tasks.Development continues with producing more and more versions. |
 | | I must to mention here, that the Russian 12.7mm hit through this armor with 15-20% higher rate than the same caliber NATO.Besides, their task is destroying unarmored HQs, radio/radar stations,vehicles,helicopters, rocket-ranges,and parking aircrafts from the distance of 1500-2000 m. |
 | | Development was based on the high powered.50 BMG and 12,7mm Soviet/Russian cartridge.Their performance is fivefold,compared to a simple 7.62 cartridge.So, the goal was a very accurate,high muzzle velocity rifle for special ops.During the planning and using,most of the problems were occured exactly because of high performance. |
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