Walther WA 2000

The Walther WA 2000 was a bullpup automatic sniper rifle designed around the 1970s. The sniper rifle is rare and currently unavailable.

Overviews
It was first designed as a response to the 1972 Summer Olympics Munich Massacre. The Bullpup design was devised so it would allow for the standard length for a sniper rifle, and yet the overall length would still remain shorter than a conventional rifle.

During the Peace Walker Incident in 1974, Big Boss and his mercenary group, the Militaires Sans Frontieres, procured the designs for the Walther WA 2000 after successfully stopping a unit of Peace Sentinels from escaping from the Mining Pit via Fulton Recovery, and designed their own version of the prototype WA2000. The MSF later enhanced the WA2000 twice.

Post-Peace Walker
In 1982, they started producing the Walther WA 2000, and were used by various German Police units. However, due to excessive costs as well as it becoming too expensive to achieve widespread sales, only 176 Walther WA 2000 Sniper Rifles were actually produced, 15 of which are located in the United States, and two variants of the sniper rifle were produced among that number, which can be easily differentiated by their flash suppressor: the first variant, specifically the older generation, utilized a "can" type flash flash suppressor. The second variant, the newer generation used the more conventional "flash-hider/compensator" design, and also included other changes that improved the rifle's accuracy. Production halted indefinitely on November 1988.

Trivia

 * The Walther WA 2000's history is similar to that of the PSG-1, as both were sniper rifles designed by West Germany that ultimately produced far fewer models than expected due to expensive costs at mass producing the weapon.

In-game weapons description
"A new model of sniper rifle developed to withstand the rigors of Special Forces operations in a world where unconventional warfare is becoming the norm. The WA2000 is heavy and extremely unwieldy, but compensates for this with low recoil, which gives it exceptional accuracy. Its scope has three levels of zoom to allow targeting at multiple distances, and armor-piercing ammunition makes it an effective weapon against heavily armored enemy troops even at long range. If long-range sniping battles are your thing, you can't go wrong with this gun."

- WA2000 weapon description from Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker