Daily Star's biggest headlines straight to your inbox!The SAS have been armed with a rifle so powerful it can destroy heavily shielded vehicles in one blow.The Gepard GM6 Lynx has been likened to a howitzer cannon for its devastating impact, despite weighing just 23lb and measuring less than 4ft long.The advanced semi-automatic rifle, made in Hungary, has a range of one-and-a-quarter miles and features a barrel that retracts like an artillery gun back into the body of the rifle to absorb the enormous recoil, Mail Online reports.The £9,000 weapon uses a magazine of five .50-calibre Raufoss Mk2 bullets, which it can fire in under three seconds and punch through armour before exploding inside a fuel tank or the interior of an armoured.
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