page_title: Steyr IWS 2000
hierarchical_section_title: Steyr IWS 2000
caption_attribution_description: English: Image of a high powered anti material rifle.
context_page_description: The Steyr IWS 2000 is an Austrian single-shot bolt-action anti-materiel rifle produced by Steyr Mannlicher. IWS stands for Infantry Weapon System. Like many of today's anti-tank rifles, and indeed also tank guns, it is actually a smoothbore weapon and not a true rifle. This can help accelerate projectiles and increase ballistic effectiveness, but, the lack of rifling imparing inertial stability, requires the projectile to have stabilizing fins. It fires a 15.2×169 mm armor-piercing fin-stabilized discarding-sabot round, and is the first man-portable rifle to use this type of ammunition.
  The first variant of the weapon was the proposed AMR 5075. It was to fire the same type of ammunition as the IWS 2000 and to use a 5-round detachable box magazine. However, that version did not pass the proposal stage.
context_section_description: The Steyr IWS 2000 is an Austrian single-shot bolt-action anti-materiel rifle produced by Steyr Mannlicher. IWS stands for Infantry Weapon System. Like many of today's anti-tank rifles, and indeed also tank guns, it is actually a smoothbore weapon and not a true rifle. This can help accelerate projectiles and increase ballistic effectiveness, but, the lack of rifling imparing inertial stability, requires the projectile to have stabilizing fins. It fires a 15.2×169 mm armor-piercing fin-stabilized discarding-sabot round (207 mm long), and is the first man-portable rifle to use this type of ammunition.
  The first variant of the weapon was the proposed AMR 5075 (AMR standing for anti-materiel rifle). It was to fire the same type of ammunition as the IWS 2000 and to use a 5-round detachable box magazine. However, that version did not pass the proposal stage.
caption: The Steyr IWS 2000, left side view
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