The sniper rifle was a type of rifle that fires projectiles at a long range with a high level of accuracy. They are usually equipped with a telescopic sight. It was a weapon used to shoot targets at long range. The purpose of a sniper rifle was to kill a target at extreme distances.
A sniper rifle fired a long beam of energy, capable of killing with a single headshot.
Sniper rifles often had a bipod and targeting scope mounted on them.
In 2268, Cervantes Quinn had a scope-mounted semiautomatic .50 caliber sniper rifle with a flash suppressor and inertia-free firing mechanism. Quinn had two magazines of spun-duranium rounds for his sniper rifle. (VAN - Declassified novella: The Stars Look Down)
| Federation Starfleet hand-held weapons | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Directed energy weapons | type 1 phaser/hand phaser | Sestra phaser I • Atalskes phaser III • Sestra phaser IB • mark V personal phaser | 
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| type 2 phaser/phaser pistol | Sestra phaser II • Atalskes phaser IV • Sestra phaser IIB • mark VI battle phaser • phaser (Kelvin timeline) | ||
| type 3 phaser/phaser rifle | phaser rifle (23rd century) • mark VII phaser rifle • type III phaser rifle • compression phaser rifle • enhanced compression rifle • phaser rifle (Kelvin timeline) | ||
| miscellaneous | assault rifle • infinity modulator • isomagnetic disintegrator • laser pistol • laser rifle • neural disruptor • phase pistol • sniper rifle | ||
| Projectile weapons | compound grenade launcher • photon burst • quantum burst • TR-116 • TR-120 | ||