14.5mm rifles

[killshot44]

Ka-BOOOOOOM

[xibunkrlilkidsx]

ILL TAKE IT!

[dwa]

Awesome info...but can we even buy the rifle, or is it a destructive device? I did find some ammo online for a very modest $35/round.

It does seem to have somewhat limited practicality. You aren't going to kill a tank with it, but it's overkill for most lesser anti-materiel operations where a .50 would do just fine. Not to mention, it's stretching the limits of the term "man-portable" way past ridiculousness. That's probably why you don't see more 20mm rifles being fielded, even though they exist. A solution looking for a problem, perhaps?

like all those vehicles specifically rated to defeat .50 bmg

[Cokebottle]

14.5mm Russian is considered DD federally since it is non-sporting and over .50".

Simple solution....


Build it with a Monte Carlo stock and a 5 round fixed mag.
Oh ya... and use wood, not black plastic

Tell them it's for sport hunting of bears and very large deer.


But I wanna see one of them hit a 'Yote

[snypr]

Man that NTW20 is da $h!t ! I gotsta get me one of those ....

Dear Santa I have been really good this year and all I want is a NTW20 with a Elcan Spector IR scope and some ammo...and $30K dollars later....

[Rick530]

Man that NTW20 is da $h!t ! I gotsta get me one of those ....

Dear Santa I have been really good this year and all I want is a NTW20 with a Elcan Spector IR scope and some ammo...and $30K dollars later....

They used one in the movie Dist 9. I was wondering what the hell it was when I saw it.

[brando]

Denel's done a great job with the NTW-20 - it's by far the best performing rifle of it's class. It's still not something I'd want to hump or jump, but it could be useful in fixed roles. They recently expanded it to support firing the larger 20mm Hispano cartridge as well (20mm x 110 vs 20mm x 82).

[elsolo]

I would guess that it's somewhat difficult and expensive to get reloading components for such a monster.

I can barely afford "cheap and plentiful" .50BMG components to make shooting it economically feasible.

[brando]

Reloading 14.5mm and 20mm isn't trivial, but the parts and components are out there if you ask around. In fact, CH4D makes dies and presses to handle both 14.5 x 114mm and 20mm Vulcan - they just cost a lot more and there's going to be wait times involved.

[timdps]

Don't think those are 14.5s. They look more like 12.7x108 rounds (Russian .50 BMG equivalent). The gun barrel looks like a DShK in 12.7x108.

There is an attached comparison photo at the bottom.
L to R: 7.62x39, 7.62x54r, .50 BMG, 14.5

These are 14's

[Afterburnt]

Looks like fun but you are gonna need a forward observer to spot your rounds so you can correct your fire. BTW I am not available.

[Cokebottle]

Looks like fun but you are gonna need a forward observer to spot your rounds so you can correct your fire. BTW I am not available.

Not a problem with one of these...

[snypr]

Ok, ill say it.....Somewhere in the above picture, is a telescope.

[Cokebottle]

Ok, ill say it.....Somewhere in the above picture, is a telescope.

Or a big freaking death ray

Actually, it's a Schmitt camera, but it was close enough for it's purpose.

[Afterburnt]

is that a Vari-X MXLCVII on top of it?