![]() ![]() ![]() Upgrades for the rifle include suppressors, optics and image intensifiers, such as thermal sensors. The PSR “provides increased probability of hit over the current M2010 (Enhanced Sniper Rifle) configuration at distances up to 1,200 meters and increases range out to 1,500, which enhances the sniper role in supporting combat operations and improves sniper survivability, as formulated by Task & Purpose. The Barrett Firearms PSR has been touted as the “primary anti-personnel sniper weapons system” for all the Army’s sniper units and a replacement for the M107 in favor of a lighter and more accurate system. ![]() Barrett’s PSR is also a multi-caliber weapons system, which allows the rifle to be used in a variety of ways. Army 2020 budget documents say Barrett’s system “provides increased probability of hit over the current M2010 (Enhanced Sniper Rifle) configuration at distances up to twelve-hundred (1,200) meters and increases range out to fifteen-hundred (1500), which enhances the sniper role in supporting combat operations and improves sniper survivability”. Army wishes to obtain 536 additional Precision Sniper Rifles (PSR), nearly twice the original order of 357 previously placed. ![]()
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