Mexican M82A1 Special force?

[fmaster]

I got a photo titled 'Mexican M82A1 Special Force'. I think this is wierd. Is there any special force only uses anti-material rifle? What for? And I heard that M82A1 is kinda expensive rifle. I think Mexico is not a lavish country and will not use that much money on purchasing these. But I don't know much about military uniforms and I cannot recognize where they are. Anyone knows about this?

(At first I posted this on equipment and someone told me that it'll be better to post this on pics, so I moved it)

[Ravage]

The guy in the front looks like gunny Beckett

[Mountain Man]

Man that barrell on the center guy's rifle looks twisted a little. Check out the muzzle break. I though maybe his whole rifle was canted but looks perpendicular to the ground. Maybe its just a trick of the eye.

[Ravage]

Yeach it looks twisted, but maybe its just the compresor.

[Hispeed1]

It's a Mexican SOF unit equipped with only Barret M82A1's as their primary weapon. . . Just kidding. Man, it would suck to march holding those.

[Ravage]

Is there any special force only uses anti-material rifle? What for? And I heard that M82A1 is kinda expensive rifle. I think Mexico is not a lavish country and will not use that much money on purchasing these. But I don't know much about military uniforms and I cannot recognize where they are. Anyone knows about this?

.50 sniper rifles can be used to destroy gereators, cars and damage light armored APCs and stuff. Plus you can destroy a generator, a antena from a long distance. These rifles are the future for special operations, cuz with them you dont need to send a demo team in, you can just shoot the target from a distance (not always, but some targets, yes). The record kill was made by a Canadian sniper shooting from
McMillan TAC-50 (12.7 mm). 2430 meters kill !

And SEALs use the .50 cal, DELTA, SF etc.

[fmaster]

.50 sniper rifles can be used to destroy gereators, cars and damage light armored APCs and stuff. Plus you can destroy a generator, a antena from a long distance. These rifles are the future for special operations, cuz with them you dont need to send a demo team in, you can just shoot the target from a distance (not always, but some targets, yes). The record kill was made by a Canadian sniper shooting from
McMillan TAC-50 (12.7 mm). 2430 meters kill !

And SEALs use the .50 cal, DELTA, SF etc.

yeah i know material rifles are pretty useful. but it'll be waste of money equipping that many rifles in one unit, huh? and it doesn't looks like a fake pic.

so how much M82A1 cost per unit?

[Ravage]

duno, I'm not in the "know how" you know

[fmaster]

i found the price of M82A1 on official site... it's 7,775$ per unit.

what a luxurious rifle!

[habe0064]

From what I can see it's only the first two rows of guys with M82A1's, the rest of the guys are carrying a different type of rifle but I can't tell what it is.

[Gus]

Most likely they took out almost every M82A1 in inventory for the parade. I doubt they would ever be deployed with that many in one op. or one unit.

By the way, it's a common misconception that Mexico is a poor country. It's actually quite wealthy. It just has some seriously poor regions.

[Wolfpack]

Yes those are Mexican S.F and of course they don´t use the barret as primary weapon.
During parades they carry some weapons just for show, (although the show last for like 10 km of marching) the use a pletora of weapons and uniforms in combat ops.

Ask Gafes to show some pics

[TheScruff]

From what I can see it's only the first two rows of guys with M82A1's, the rest of the guys are carrying a different type of rifle but I can't tell what it is.

You're right, it looks like the buttstock of the M16.
But I dunno about the nationality

[fmaster]

i saw the two row of M82A1 too, but i thought 2~3 anti-material rifle per one unit will be resonable. but it looks like they have over 6 guns. and i didn't said that mexico is a poor country.

well anyway i found that they are real mexican SOF, GAFE. and it says they use M82A1. thanks everyone.

[martinexsquaddie]

that would suck doing drill with an m82
surely its against human rights