To the two people who’ve downvoted you so far… its not a meaningless nitpick.
The iconic M82 50 BMG Anti-Materiel rifle was at least initially invented for doing things like disabling a car from a distance, for doing damage to a radio transmitter, fucking up a parked helicopter or jet, intentionally detonating an IED, something like that.
Yes, you can use it as an anti-personnel rifle, but it is heavier, less accurate, and has a lower effective range, as well as a good deal more recoil, than actual sniper rifles designed to kill people or roughly human sized hunting game animals at an extreme range.
Yeah.
Materiel is like… equipment.
To the two people who’ve downvoted you so far… its not a meaningless nitpick.
The iconic M82 50 BMG Anti-Materiel rifle was at least initially invented for doing things like disabling a car from a distance, for doing damage to a radio transmitter, fucking up a parked helicopter or jet, intentionally detonating an IED, something like that.
Yes, you can use it as an anti-personnel rifle, but it is heavier, less accurate, and has a lower effective range, as well as a good deal more recoil, than actual sniper rifles designed to kill people or roughly human sized hunting game animals at an extreme range.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-materiel_rifle
Basically, an Anti-Materiel Rifle is somewhere between an old school Anti Tank Rifle, and a Sniper Rifle.
So… contextually, unless you are a Vertibird, or in Power Armor… you are probably not ‘made of materiel’.