Weapons Arsenal Discovered

[Delfuego]

Usually the police find 2 pistols, a rifle and 300rds of ammo and declare an "arsenal", this is a little more. Also if this is accurate, your collection got nothing on these guys (except maybe hoser).

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https://apnews.com/article/yemen-middle-east-e4bde7250333a85445fe9a9f0f1c64a8

[RblDiver]

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[Erni]

All those poor SVDs. Yikes.

[Delfuego]

At first I didn't believe it, then I downloaded the photo and zoomed in...

[Martinjmpr]

Those are all about to be lost in a tragic boating accident....

[Delfuego]

Those are all about to be lost in a tragic boating accident....[ROFL1]

[MrPrena]

MAC Some importer would pay hefty amount for all those Dragunov SVD.

[Coffee]

[APEXgunparts]

MAC Some importer would pay hefty amount for all those Dragunov SVD.

[Coffee]

ONLY if the US Navy or some other Gov't entity lands it in the USA and then offers it for sale.
You cannot legally get Russian or Chinese origin guns or parts thru US Customs.
Unfortunately DoD demil standards are also more severe than the ATF demil guidance, they don't take anything apart prior to cutting!

Richard

[WETWRKS]

Just to the left of the 2 yellow tubes at the bottom is Steyr HS50s. .50BMG sniper rifles. They run $4500-5000 each. This is not the first time we have captured a bunch of them headed to enemy Islamic nations. Steyr was blamed by the Dems last time till Steyr proved they didn't ok the sale.

Best as I can tell it looks like there are 52 of them sitting there...that is more than $230k just in those.

[flogger]

Nice picture! That's a shitload of guns!

I can't imagine being a US military team member searching a ship like this.

Good work guys/gals!

[MrPrena]

Just to the left of the 2 yellow tubes at the bottom is Steyr HS50s. .50BMG sniper rifles. They run $4500-5000 each. This is not the first time we have captured a bunch of them headed to enemy Islamic nations. Steyr was blamed by the Dems last time till Steyr proved they didn't ok the sale.

Best as I can tell it looks like there are 52 of them sitting there...that is more than $230k just in those.

Nice find.
I remember that during W admin. I do not recall if it was real Steyr , or MAYBE those chinese or iranian clones?


https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2012/07/13/steyr-hs-50-in-iran-counterfeit/

[JohnnyDrama]

DANG!

[hollohas]

It's too bad that's all going to be destroyed. What a shame. They really should sell that stuff to US.

[Delfuego]

Just to the left of the 2 yellow tubes at the bottom is Steyr HS50s. .50BMG sniper rifles. They run $4500-5000 each.That's a lot of goats... [bad-banana]

[Duman]

It would be tough to sneak one of those away......

[brutal]

That's a lot of cocaine... [Flower]

FIFY

[FoxtArt]

I hope those sailors are going to be "dumping" a ton of rounds into the ocean after the photo was taken. One round at a time, of course.

Logically it would make some sense to retain everything and then deliver them to the "other" country that we want to sell arms to at any given moment especially since these don't scream US GOVT. But government and logic are incompatible.

[TFOGGER]

Looks like a garage sale at Dragonman's...

[FromMyColdDeadHand]

What? Looks like a light range day for zeroing in some new stuff....

[Aloha_Shooter]

Looks like a good cache of material for a bunch of SOF teams (as long as they function properly). Cost the taxpayer next to nothing so no worries if they have to leave it behind ...

[TEAMRICO]

I want that to be my view when I look out from over my deck.

[brutal]

"Arms researchers said on Twitter they had spotted hundreds of Sayyad rifles, an Iranian knockoff of a Steyr-made .50 caliber sniper rifle, and Nakhjir 3 rifles, an Iranian version of the Soviet SVD sniper rifle. A 5th Fleet spokeswoman did not respond to questions about the release of the crew or what would happen to the weapons."

[Vic Tory]

That's a pretty good start on a collection.