The Siyavash

sniper rifle A sniper rifle is a high-precision, long range shooting, long-range rifle. Requirements include high accuracy, reliability, mobility, concealment, and optics, for anti-personnel weapon, anti-personnel, anti-materiel rifle, anti-materiel and sur ...

is a light rifle designed for and deployed by the

Iranian Army The Islamic Republic of Iran Army (), acronymed AJA (), commonly simplified as the Iranian Army, is the conventional military of Iran and part of the Islamic Republic of Iran Armed Forces. It is tasked to protect the territorial integrity of th ...

. It carries a five-round

magazine A magazine is a periodical literature, periodical publication, print or digital, produced on a regular schedule, that contains any of a variety of subject-oriented textual and visual content (media), content forms. Magazines are generally fin ...

and weighs 14 pounds (6.5 kg). It is a clone of the US

M40 rifle The M40 rifle is a bolt-action sniper rifle used by the United States Marine Corps. It has had four variants: the M40, M40A1, M40A3, and M40A5. The M40 was introduced in 1966. The changeover to the A1 model was completed in the 1970s, the A3 in ...

.https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2014/05/13/report-iraqi-snipers-iranian-rifles/

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7.62×51mm NATO rifles Sniper rifles of Iran Bolt-action rifles of Iran Post–Cold War weapons of Iran {{Rifle-stub