In late 2005, a Russian mineral exploration company discovered a series of large oilfields in southern Sudan. Sudan’s Military government, with its ability to hold the newly revitalised Sudanese People’s Liberation Army at bay beginning to falter, decided this new source of oil was its one sure-fire way to hold onto power.
Caliber: .308 (7.62mm NATO)
Action: gas-operated, rotary bolt, semi-auto
Length: 1118mm
Barrel Length: Match Rifle 24" (610mm) (also
LwMatch & Sporter 20" (508mm), Carbine
16" (406mm) )
Weight emty, no sigths: Match Rifle 10.75pds
(4.88kg), LwMatch 9.5pds (4.31kg), Carbine 7.75pds
(3.52kg), Sporter 8.75pds (3.97kg)
Magazine: 20rds box, 5rds box
Sights: Picatinny rail system for mounting scopes
or carrying handle w. iron sigths
Eugene Stoner, designer of the AR10 and AR15
(known to the World as an M16), working with US
company Knight's Armament, designed an SR-25
- a rebuilt in its original caliber AR10. Up to
60% of parts of the Sr-25 are interchangeable with
the AR15/M16 - everything but the receiver, the
hammer, the barrel assembly and the carrier/bolt.
Barrels of the Sr-25 is manufactured by Remington
with its famous 5R (5 grooves, rounded) rifling,
with twist 1:1.25 (1 turn in 11.25" (286mm).
The heavy 24" (609mm) barrel is
free-floating, so handguards are attached to the
front of the receiver and do not touched the
barrel. The ligth gas tube does not affect
accuracy. SR-25 is manufactured in 4 variants:
Match rifle, with 24" (609mm) barrel,
Lightweight match rifle with 20" (508mm)
barrel, carbine with 16" (406mm) barrel, and
Sporter, with 20" (508mm) not free-floated
barrel. Match Rifle has no iron sigths, and all
models has a Picatinny-weaver rail system on the
top of the receiver to accept different scope
mounts or M16A3 carrying handle with iron sigths
(front sigth mounted on the rail located on the
forward end of the handguard). This rifle designed
to shoot 1 minute-of-angle groups at 600 yards (
~150mm groups at 550 meters)
After five years of shopping for a new weapon,
the U.S. Navy SEALs took the plunge and adopted
the 7.62 x 51 mm SR25 sniper rifle, made by
Knight's Armament Company, of Vero Beach,
Fla., and stirred the precision rifle market in
the process.