Type 88 sniper

that must be the most expensive chinese gun in canada. ofcos 10 grand pale compared to what the american paid for a type 81 lmg.
 
Ah the infamous "anti-hostage" sniper rifle. The nick name came from a failed police operation during 2010 in Nanjing, China. The QBU-88 was employed at 65m (another source says 30m) range against hijacker holding hostage in a bus. The shot went through the window but hit the hostage's head instead. The hijacker was scared sh!tless and proceed to surrender shortly after. The hostage suffered injury to the head but was able to walk off the bus on his own and survived after.

The rifle's accuracy was not that great to start with but should be adequate for the task at that range. One source showed 3 10 shots groups from 100m. They are 8.11cm, 12.4cm, 11.5cm in diameter. It translates to be roughly around 4 MOA at 100m. The source suggest the rifle was owned by a commercial shooting range in China (i.e. lots of rounds through) and not shot by professional snipers (whatever that means).

The failure here is more due to the tactic than the equipment, where the risk of the glass panel in between was not understood. Since the incident, there has been research paper published in Chinese regarding the effect of glass on projectiles.
 
diegocn said:
Ah the infamous "anti-hostage" sniper rifle. The nick name came from a failed police operation during 2010 in Nanjing, China. The QBU-88 was employed at 65m (another source says 30m) range against hijacker holding hostage in a bus. The shot went through the window but hit the hostage's head instead. The hijacker was scared sh!tless and proceed to surrender shortly after. The hostage suffered injury to the head but was able to walk off the bus on his own and survived after.

The rifle's accuracy was not that great to start with but should be adequate for the task at that range. One source showed 3 10 shots groups from 100m. They are 8.11cm, 12.4cm, 11.5cm in diameter. It translates to be roughly around 4 MOA at 100m. The source suggest the rifle was owned by a commercial shooting range in China (i.e. lots of rounds through) and not shot by professional snipers (whatever that means).

The failure here is more due to the tactic than the equipment, where the risk of the glass panel in between was not understood. Since the incident, there has been research paper published in Chinese regarding the effect of glass on projectiles.
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"anti-hostage"... this can't get more hilarious than that...
 
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