Notes: Accuracy International makes a family of related sniper weapons, based upon a common design, modified for particular chamberings or roles.

The PM (Primary Military) is the standard sniper rifle of the British Army, and is also used by several unnamed African, Middle Eastern, and Asian militaries. Unlike most previous British sniper rifles, the PM was designed from the start as a military sniper rifle. The PM (type-standardized by the British military as the L-96A1) uses a high-quality stainless steel 25.8-inch barrel, fitted into the stock so that it free-floats. Most of the other working parts are likewise of steel, but the receiver and most other metal parts are made of aluminum alloy. The entire action is enclosed in plastic composites. The bolt lift is only 60 degrees, and the throw is only 107mm, which means the sniper does need to move a lot between shots, and doesn’t even need to take his eye away from his scope. The stock of the PM is usually plastic composite, though a wooden stock is available on demand; the stock has a telescoping monopod at the rear, a buttplate adjustable for length of pull and with a recoil pad, and an adjustable padded cheekpiece. The trigger is adjustable for pull weight. The folding light alloy bipod is adjustable for height and cant. The PM has fully adjustable iron sights, but of course a telescopic sight is the primary sight. Early models mounted the sight with a conventional mount/ring arrangement, but later ones use a MIL-STD-1913 rail. The standard telescopic sight for the British military varies with the role (standard military snipers use a Schmidt & Bender 6x42 scope, while counterterrorist snipers and special operations troops often use a Hensoldt 2.5-10x scope).

The military version adopted by the British and several other countries fires 7.62mm NATO, and is known as the L-96A1. There are also versions designed for several other calibers, but they tend to be rather rare and meant primarily for special applications. The .308 Norma Magnum chambering, in particular, was designed primarily as an experiment for the British Army, which was considering the cartridge as a new sniping round, and very limited amounts of PMs chambered for .308 Norma Magnum are available.

The AW is an improved model of the L-96A1 version of the PM, originally designed to a Swedish specification for a new sniper rifle, but also used by Australia (in a modified form), and Italy. The Dutch have bought the AW, but only in small numbers starting in 1997; at first they were used primarily in Bosnia, but they then bought more when some Dutch troops were deployed to Afghanistan. The AW has replaced the PM in production for the British Army (but is still called the L-96A1 in British service). The standard improvements done to the AW include coatings for the working parts to keep them from freezing in extreme cold, the addition of a muzzle brake, an improved bipod also protected against extreme cold and more finely adjustable than the PM’s bipod, and multipoint sling swivel attachments. A very few still have a conventional mount/ring arrangement for the telescopic sights, but most have a MIL-STD-1913 rail. The AW is also able to accept a special silencer designed for it; this silencer can use full-power ammunition (but it only acts as a noise suppressor in this case) or subsonic ammunition.

The Swedish also adopted a modified version of the AW in 1994 as the PSG-90; the changes to the PM done to produce the PSG-90 included better tempering and coating of the parts for greater reliability in cold weather, a change to a more effective muzzle brake, a slightly longer barrel, more finely adjustable backup iron sights, a MIL-STD-1913 rail as standard, a larger trigger guard, and a better gripping surface on the bolt handle. The standard scope in Swedish use is a Hensoldt 10-42 with an illuminated Mil-Dot reticule. (They also bought a great deal of 7.62mm SLAP ammunition, and then started domestic production of the round, as it is their standard 7.62mm sniping round.) The Australians also bought 166 AWs, but theirs have a folding stock and a MIL-STD-1913 rail as standard equipment.

The AWP is a variant of the AW which is primarily characterized by its shorter barrels, which may be had in 24.1-inch or 20.1-inch lengths. This version also uses a bipod which can be adjusted to a very low height to enable its use when firing over low obstacles or parapets. It has no iron sights, no muzzle brake or flash suppressor, and cannot take a silencer. The AWMP (also known as the AWS) is a version of the AWP uses a 20.1-inch special barrel surrounded by an integrated silencer. This version is capable of using full-power and subsonic ammunition. An SWP can easily be converted to an AWMP in about 3 minutes simply by swapping out the barrel assemblies and re-zeroing the scope. The standard scope for both of these versions is a Schmidt & Bender 3-12x.

The AWMP itself has a further sub-type known as the AW Covert. The Covert is fitted with a shorter barrel that has a high-efficiency, high-durability suppressor, and the stock is modified into one that may be folded. The entire weapon may also be dismantled to the point where it fits into a small suitcase; in this state, the longest component is only one-quarter the length of the assembled weapon. If using subsonic ammunition, the Covert produces only 85 decibels of noise; with standard ammunition, 109 decibels of noise are produced. The Covert’s trigger is very sensitive, and may be set for as little as 1 kg of pressure. The Covert is issued with a special suitcase, complete with wheels, a retractable handle, and a lining that defies standard X-Rays and CT scans.

The AWM Super Magnum is essentially an L-96A1 upgraded to accept the higher power cartridges, especially the .338 Lapua. The barrel is slightly longer to take the full potential of the .338, and the range is increased significantly. In addition, the standard sight interface is a MIL-STD-1913 rail, and the recoil pad is more substantial. A folding stock is an optional feature. Barrels are 27 inches in .338 Lapua Magnum, and 26 inches for the other two calibers; both are tipped with a high-efficiency muzzle brake. This rifle’s range can approach the range of the .50 caliber rifles, yet it is only slightly heavier than the standard L-96A1. As of 2006, the only official users of the AWM are the British, Germans and the Dutch, but it is an open secret that there are a lot of unofficial users. The British and Dutch ordered the .338 Lapua model, while the Germans ordered theirs in .300 Winchester Magnum; the British call theirs the L-115A1, while the Germans call theirs the G-22. The Dutch and Germans started using them in 1997, but the British waited until 1999 to field them.

The AE is described as an "affordable AW." It was designed with US law enforcement in mind – to be a good sniper’s weapon without breaking a police department’s budget. It is similar to the AW in form, but is made from less expensive synthetics. Instead of an adjustable cheekpiece is a raised portion of the stock. Instead of a mechanically-adjustable stock, the stock is supplied with spacers. The magazine is 5 rounds instead of ten. The barrel is of the same quality, but is a shorter 23.5 inches, and has no muzzle brake or flash suppressor, and is not designed to take a silencer.

Twilight 2000 Notes: The L-96A1 began replacing older sniper rifles in British use shortly before the Twilight War, and began to replace the C-3 in Canadian service when the war began. Like the M-24 SWS, the weapon still had not been delivered to many units by the time of the war. The "odd-caliber" models were in sporadic use by several countries throughout the war. The Italians never got their AWs; the British got far less than they wanted. The Australians got some of their folding-stock AWS, but some 100 of the AWs they got were standard fixed-stock versions. Other NATO countries used the AW in small numbers. The Swedes were the only ones to really see large-scale deployment of the AW. The AW Covert was a favorite of assassins working for the CIA and MI6, as well as equivalent military agencies; some well known victims include the Commander of the Soviet Strategic Central Region Command in 1997 and Carl Hughes’ eldest son in 2001. In addition to the users above, the AWM is a favorite of British, Australian, and New Zealander SAS and SBS units, and is also used by the US Army’s Delta Force, and the Belgians. The AE does not exist in the Twilight 2000 timeline.

Merc 2000 Notes: The Italian procurement of the AW was such that by 2000, they were using about 300 of them. When three AW Covert rifles were sent to CIA agents in Afghanistan in 2003, they were believed to have been intercepted by Al Qaida terrorists. A lot of AWMs are known to be floating around in Africa; in addition to military use, they have been bought by big game hunters and poachers alike.

Notes: Starting from a Remington 700 base, Armalon’s primary goal with the PR was to greatly increase the magazine capacity of the weapon, to make more suitable as a platoon sharpshooter’s weapon. The later nylon-stocked version of the Remington 700 is used, and the barrel is increased in length and given more weight. It is available in 5.56mm NATO or 7.62mm NATO chamberings; 5.56mm NATO versions can use certain AR-15/M-16 series magazines, while 7.62mm NATO versions are fed by magazines designed for the AR-10, M-14, or M-1A. Other than caliber, the four versions are available: without a muzzle brake, and one with a muzzle brake, both with or without fluted barrels.

Twilight 2000 Notes: As production started shortly before the Twilight War, the PR is a rather rare weapon, found mostly in Britain, and to a lesser extent, Denmark, Norway, and the Netherlands.

Notes: Like many countries at the time, Britain issued sniping weapons to its troops which were essentially little-modified versions of their standard military small arms. Usually, these weapons were rifles which had come off of standard production lines, but had shown themselves to be unusually well-made or for whatever reason shot better than the usual example of the standard service rifle. Britain used a version of the Enfield No. 4 Mk 1 for this purpose.

The Enfield No. 4 Mk 1T is a sniping version of the standard No.4 Mk 1, with a scope mount and a wooden cheek rest screwed to the stock. In addition, the rear sight has been replaced with a tangent sight. It was used by the British during World War II and can still be found in former Commonwealth countries.

The Enfield Enforcer is an evolutionary advancement of the No. 4 Mk 1T, designed when the British Army started passing on their old No. 4 Mk 1T’s to the police in favor of the then-new L-42A1. The police felt their "new" No.4 Mk 1T’s were a bit too beaten up from service use, and they also wanted a weapon that fired the 7.62 NATO cartridge, which was cheaper, and even in Britain, easier to obtain than the .303 British round. In addition to the conversion to 7.62 NATO caliber, the barrel of the basic No 4 rifle is lengthened, stiffened, and given more weight. Though the iron sights are altered to better suit the new cartridge, the primary sighting method is through the Pecar 4-10x telescopic sight. These weapons were later replaced with more modern ones.

The L-42A1 is basically an Enfield No 4 Mk 1 or Mk 1*(T) brought up to (then) modern standards, primarily by a conversion to 7.62mm NATO and the ability to mount more modern telescopic sights and night vision equipment. Most of the other modifications are to suit the change in caliber. The Enforcer is a police version of the same weapon. The L-42A1 is long out of service with British units, but many former British Commonwealth nations are still equipped with it.

The purpose of the L-39A1 was to provide a satisfactory rifle for military shooting competitions. The British military tried an accurized and scoped version of the L-1A1, but this proved unsatisfactory to competition shooters. Old Enfield No. 4s were refurbished and rechambered for 7.62mm NATO ammunition; improvements included new sight mounts and new, cold-forged, heavy barrel. It should be noted that the L-39A1 was never intended to be a sniper weapon (though it is sometimes used in the training of snipers), and thus lacks a lot of the refinements that dedicated sniping weapons have, such as adjustable stocks, fully adjustable triggers (though it does have a set trigger), and suchlike.

Twilight 2000 Notes: Enfield Enforcers were used to equip some Territorial militias loyal to the Crown. About 40,000 L-42A1s were supplied to China in one of the largest secret arms sales ever. Though the L-39A1 was not designed to be a sniper’s weapon, it was used in just a manner, particularly by home guard and militia units in the British Isles.

Merc 2000 Notes: Enfield Enforcers were dumped on the international arms market late in the 20^th century. The L-42A1 started showing up in most Central American and South American countries starting in 2002, though only Belize and El Salvador are officially listed as having been sold the L-42A1.