And they area very cheap to build, anywhere.
If you look at what is effective in the urban environment in Syria? The 50BMG and 12.7MM sniper rifles are doing an incredible job. Long range, accurate devastating.
Zagros they call them. There is a company in the US that makes similar rifles. And I've read the North Vietnamese are making a repeating version that is very very good. Have read Israel is employing them.
You contradict yourself.