or something like that.
As far as I know, the reason was a change in doctrine combined with lack of resources ie money.
But I'll try to find out.
That is by the way the reason why (in my initial post) I wrote of my hope for a further change of the TOE.

The sniper rifle we currently field is the SSG69, a 7,62mm sniper rifle which ranges out to 600m (the fm says 800 but well...).
http://www.steyr-mannlicher.com/inde...93b475a56bcafa
The SSG69 is the weapon used by the company sniper squad.

At the moment we also test the steyr .50 sSSG (heavy sniper rifle)
http://www.steyr-mannlicher.com/inde...51fb369f1e7b01
The sSSG will be used (if fielded) by the heavy sniper squad in the recce plt of the battalion