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| If you're creating a new page for an anti-materiel rifle make sure to add '''<nowiki>[[Category:Gun]]</nowiki>''', '''<nowiki>[[Category:Rifle]]</nowiki>''' and '''<nowiki>[[Category:Anti-Materiel Rifle]]</nowiki>''' to the page so that it will be listed here.
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| An '''anti-materiel rifle''' is a large-caliber rifle designed for use against armored vehicles, ordnance, fortifications, and/or other forms of equipment, generally through the use of a large-caliber, high-velocity rounds with armor-piercing projectiles. Originally meant specifically for use against tanks (with the first such weapon being the [[Mauser 1918 T-Gewehr]]), advances in tank armor quickly outpaced the effectiveness of anti-tank rifles, to the point where any weapon sufficiently powerful to pierce one's armor would be far too large, and recoil far too harshly, to be suitable as an individual weapon; as such, their roles would ultimately be confined to dealing with equipment too well-protected for normal rifles, yet not sufficiently armored to necessitate larger crew-served and/or recoilless weapons.
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| There two general qualifiers for an anti-materiel rifle as defined on this wiki:
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| (a) It fires a purpose-designed anti-materiel cartridge
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| ::(i) While many modern AMRs are intended first and foremost as long-range sniper rifles (e.g. the [[McMillan TAC-50]]), the cartridges they fire still allow them to be used effectively in an anti-materiel role, allowing them to fit into both categories; note that, contrary to common belief, not all AMRs are intended as (nor suitable as) sniper rifles, with earlier anti-tank rifles in particular being neither exceptionally accurate nor designed to accept scopes (not leastly because period scopes would not respond well at all to the recoil they produce). The "purpose-designed" bit is largely to exclude large-caliber sporting/hunting rifles that were never intended for use against armored targets, even if they can, in some cases, be used in this role (as was the case during World War I, when the British purchased several commercial big-game hunting rifles as a stop-gap measure against German sniper shields).
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| (b) It is a rifle
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| ::(i) This qualifier excludes larger crew-served weapons, including light AT cannons and heavy machine guns; while an AMR can theoretically be select-fire (though there is precious little reason for one to be), it must be a shoulder-fired weapon, capable of at least theoretically being operated by a single individual (though in practice they were often carried and run by two-man crews, largely due to their considerable weight), with a caliber generally no more than 20mm (the broadly-accepted dividing line between rifles and cannons, though some exceptions (e.g. the [[Barrett XM109]]) exist). This limit also excludes recoilless rifles such as the [[M18 Recoilless Rifle|M18]], whose bore size makes them, for all practical purposes, recoilless rifled cannons; due to their similar role and function, these can be found in [[:Category:Missile Launcher]] (though it is worth noting that proper anti-materiel rifles can have similar recoil-compensating systems, as is the case with the Croatian RT-20). Additionally, this limit excludes handguns chambered for anti-materiel cartridges (e.g. the [[Triple Action Thunder]]), and large-caliber shotguns intended for/used in an anti-materiel role (e.g. the [[Ithaca Mag-10 "RoadBlocker"]]).
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| As a final note, the correct spelling is "anti-materi'''e'''l", not "anti-materi'''a'''l"; "materiel" specifically denotes military supplies and equipment, while any rifle intended to be used against a target made of physical matter could be argued to be an "anti-material rifle".
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| =Anti-Materiel Rifles=
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| !align="center"|<div style=font-size:200%>Anti-Materiel Rifles</div><br>
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| <gallery widths=300px perrow=5>
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| AW 50.jpg|[[Accuracy International AW50]]
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| As50sr.jpg|[[Accuracy International AS50]]
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| AX50.jpg|[[Accuracy International AX50]]
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| Unidentified20mmantitankrifle.jpg|[[Anzio 20mm|AIC Mag-Fed 20mm]]
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| Amr-2 2.jpg|[[AMR-2]]
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| OM50 Nemesis.jpg|[[AMSD OM 50 Nemesis]]
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| ArmaliteAR-50.jpg|[[Armalite AR-50]]
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| M82a1.jpg|[[Barrett M82|Barrett M82 series]]
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| Barrett m90.jpg|[[Barrett M95]]
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| Barrett m99-1.jpg|[[Barrett M99]]
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| BarrettXM500.jpg|[[Barrett XM500]]
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| BoysRifle.55.jpg|[[Boys anti-tank rifle]]
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| BushBA50.jpg|[[Bushmaster BA50]]
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| DTA HTI black 50 BMG.jpg|[[Desert Tactical Hard Target Interdiction|Desert Tactical Arms Hard Target Interdiction]]
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| NewDSR50muzbk.jpg|[[DSR-50|DSR-Precision DSR-50]]
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| M96rifle.jpg|[[EDM Arms Windrunner|EDM Arms Windrunner M96]]
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| GepardM1.jpg|[[Gepard anti-materiel rifle series|Gepard series]]
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| Amac-1500.jpg|[[Iver Johnson AMAC-1500]]
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| Wz35.jpg|[[Kb ppanc wz. 35]]
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| Ksvk2.jpg|[[KSVK]]
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| Lahti.jpg|[[Lahti L-39]]
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| LAR Grizzly.jpg|[[LAR Grizzly Big Boar]]
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| MG MG6.jpg|[[Maadi Griffin MG-6]]
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| MG-Model99.jpg|[[Maadi Griffin#Maadi Griffin Model 99|Maadi Griffin Model 99]]
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| Tankgewehr1918.jpg|[[Mauser 1918 T-Gewehr]]
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| McMillan M87R.jpg|[[McMillan M87R]]
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| McMillan M88-50BMG.jpg|[[McMillan M88]]
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| McMillan Tac 50 A.large.jpg|[[McMillan TAC-50]]
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| Ntw20.jpg|[[Mechem NTW-20]]
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| Leader 50.jpg|MICOR Defense Leader 50
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| KBP OSV-96.jpg|[[OSV-96]]
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| PzB-38.jpg|[[Panzerbüchse 38]]
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| PzB-39.jpg|[[Panzerbüchse 39]]
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| Panzerbüchse M.SS.41.jpg|[[Panzerbüchse M.SS.41]]
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| Pauza P50.JPG|[[Pauza P50]]
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| PGMHecateII.jpg|[[PGM Hecate II]]
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| PTRD-41.jpg|[[PTRD-41]]
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| PTRS 41.jpg|[[PTRS-41]]
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| QBU-09.jpg|[[QBU-10]]
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| RobarRC50.jpg|[[Robar RC-50]]
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| RT-20.jpg|RT-20
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| Serbu bfg50.jpg|[[Serbu BFG-50]]
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| Bfg50A.jpg|[[Serbu BFG-50A]]
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| Serbu RN-50.jpg|Serbu RN-50
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| Solothurn S-18 ATR.jpg|[[Solothurn S-18 20mm Anti-Tank Rifle|Solothurn S-18]]
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| Steyr50hs.jpg|[[Steyr HS .50]]
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| Steyr Iws 2000.jpg|[[Steyr IWS 2000]] (technically a smoothbore)
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| SV-18.jpg|SV-18
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| Truvello CMS 12.7mm.jpg|[[Truvelo CMS]]
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| Type 97 Anti Tank Rifle.jpg|[[Type 97 Anti-tank rifle]]
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| Victrix Corvus.jpg|[[Victrix Sniper Rifle Series|Victrix Corvus]]
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| WKW Wilk.jpg|[[WKW Wilk]]
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| Zastava M93.jpg|[[Zastava M93 Black Arrow]]
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| M99.jpg|[[Zijiang M99]]
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| Sniper Rifle Falcon.jpg|[[ZVI Falcon]]
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