Merr-Sonn SX-451 Heavy Sniper Rifle

The Merr-Sonn SX-451 is one of the premier heavy sniper rifles on the market today, it is closer to a piece of light artillery than it is to a personal weapon. The mission of the SX-451 is to destroy materiel, vehicles and crew served weapons from a distance, usually outside of the enemy's perimeter. It is also being used by law enforcement authorities to neutralize armed criminals who have taken cover behind cover capable of stopping a lesser shot, to destroy explosive devices where they lay and to disable a felon's escape vehicle. Having the range and power of the famous E-WEB heavy repeating blaster, the SX-451 is not a small weapon, nearly two meters long and 15kg in weight, making unsuitable for all but a few, specialized, select missions.

For transportability, the rifle breaks down into four pieces (barrel and scope, bipod, action, and stock), and packs into a case or a specially built packframe. Reassembly take about a minute, with no special tools, just a credit chip, screwdriver or similar item. The scope is built under license from BlasTech, as it utilizes the thermal, UV and passive light enhancement composite image systems found in the Sharpshooter V, while improving on the haze and smoke filters. Unfortunately, due to the power, the capacitors in the trigger group must be quite powerful, but compact for portability. The trade off with this is a 20 second recharge time on the firing mechanism. But all things considered, you really don't need to hit a target twice for it to stay still.

type: heavy sniper rifle
skill: Blaster: rifle
availability: 3 X
cost: 4000 (25)
range: 3-100/350/500
ammo: 5
fire rate: 1/4
damage: 8D
notes: Scope: Reduce range 2 steps (long becomes short, etc.), negates all smoke and darkness penalties, after 1 round of aiming. Includes bonuses for bipod.
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