{"id":6334,"date":"2017-10-04T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/candrdigital.com\/index.php\/2017\/10\/04\/kurdish-12-7mm-zagros-and-14-5mm-ser-anti-materiel-rifles\/"},"modified":"2020-07-22T15:19:37","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T20:19:37","slug":"kurdish-12-7mm-zagros-and-14-5mm-ser-anti-materiel-rifles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2017\/10\/04\/kurdish-12-7mm-zagros-and-14-5mm-ser-anti-materiel-rifles\/","title":{"rendered":"Kurdish 12.7mm Zagros and 14.5mm \u015eer Anti-Materiel Rifles"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7eZ4MwgViQI?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Support Forgotten Weapons: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to correspondent Ed Nash (he gave me permission to use his name after I had recorded the video), I have a number of really interesting photos and video clips of YPG (Kurdish) locally-produced anti-materiel rifles. Specifically, the Zagros 12.7mm rifle and the \u015eer Portative 14.5mm rifle. Both are made on a small serial production scale by the YPG using barrels from DShK and KPV machine guns. Tubular receivers and bolts are fitted to them, making effective single-shot rifles.<\/p>\n<p>These photos are from the fall of 2015 and the summer of 2016. I am told that both types of gun were reliable and effective, and used substantially in combat against ISIS\/Daesh, with their necessity decreasing after the YPG began receiving more air support from United States forces. These were not sniping rifles so much as anti-material rifle, used against walls, light armored vehicles (including VBIEDs), and other sorts of cover. <\/p>\n<p>For more information on craft-built anti-materiel rifles, check these two posts:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/armamentresearch.com\/craft-produced-anti-materiel-rifles-and-light-cannon-in-yemen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/armamentresearch.com\/craft-produced-anti-materiel-rifles-and-light-cannon-in-yemen\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/armamentresearch.com\/syrian-rebels-produce-homemade-anti-materiel-rifles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/armamentresearch.com\/syrian-rebels-produce-homemade-anti-materiel-rifles\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>When the full ARES report on craft-produced and improvised weapons is published, it will be linked here.<\/p>\n<p>Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you enjoy Forgotten Weapons, check out its sister channel, InRangeTV! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/InRangeTVShow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/InRangeTVShow<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Support Forgotten Weapons: http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons Thanks to correspondent Ed Nash (he gave me permission to use his name after I had recorded the video), I have a number of really interesting photos and video clips of YPG (Kurdish) locally-produced anti-materiel rifles. Specifically, the Zagros 12.7mm rifle and the \u015eer Portative 14.5mm rifle. Both are made on&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2017\/10\/04\/kurdish-12-7mm-zagros-and-14-5mm-ser-anti-materiel-rifles\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kurdish 12.7mm Zagros and 14.5mm \u015eer Anti-Materiel Rifles<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":6335,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14676,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6334\/revisions\/14676"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}