Stealth Recon Scout

🇺🇸United States
Desert Tactical Arms
2009 – Present
Overview
Stealth Recon Scout
The Desert Tech Stealth Recon Scout (SRS) is a compact bolt-action sniper rifle featuring a bullpup design, allowing for a shorter length while maintaining balance and accuracy of 0.5 MOA. It supports multiple calibers, includes a five-round magazine, and has variants like the SRS-A1 and SRS-A2, with a product recall issued in 2021 for certain models due to a manufacturing error.
Specifications

General

ActionBolt-action
Caliber.338 Lapua Magnum
Weight Kg4.9 kg
Max Range M731.5 m
Barrel Length Mm558 mm
Magazine Capacity5
Research Notes

Development history

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The SRS applied a bullpup layout to precision rifles to reduce overall length without giving up barrel length.

The Stealth Recon Scout, later associated with Desert Tech after the company changed from Desert Tactical Arms, was developed as a compact bullpup precision rifle. It entered a market where long-range rifles were typically long, heavy, and conventionally laid out. By placing the action behind the trigger, the SRS kept full-length barrels while reducing overall length, making the design attractive for users who needed precision capability in vehicles, urban positions, or confined terrain.

Technical profile

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Its key features are bullpup compactness, bolt-action precision, modular calibers, and chassis construction.

The SRS is a bolt-action bullpup sniper rifle with modular caliber conversion capability, detachable magazines, a rigid chassis, and optics-forward layout. It was offered in multiple cartridges, including short-action and magnum options depending on configuration. The bullpup design improves compactness but also changes balance, manipulation, and reload ergonomics compared with conventional rifles.

Operational use

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Its practical relevance is specialist precision use where compactness matters.

The rifle is relevant to military and police sniper discussions because it provides precision-rifle ballistics in a shorter package. Public evidence points mainly to specialist, commercial, and law-enforcement precision use rather than wide national service. The page should therefore frame it as a compact precision rifle option with tactical relevance, not as a standard U.S. military sniper system.

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