C.J. Chivers encountered one a  .50 cal Chinese M99 anti-material rifle in Syria and took some excellent photos of it …

The rifle in question, however, is not British. It’s a Chinese M99.

Just a few days ago, with Ahfad al-Rasul (the “Grandsons of the Prophet”) on the Idlib and Hama fronts, we happened to get a close and unobstructed view of one of the siblings seen in the Reuters’ file, as the rest of the photographs show.