Gilboa DBR Snake

The Gilboa DBR Snake is an assault rifle developed by Israeli company Silver Shadow. Originally conceived by Amos Golan, CEO of the company and designer of the famous Cornershot system. Gilboa Snake rifle was designed along the rather old concept of “salvo” fire. This concept, previously developed and tested in USA under SPIW program in 1950s and 60s, called for weapon that fires several bullets at the same time or in very quick bursts, to increase hit probability and provide faster target incapacitation per single “observe – aim – pull the trigger” cycle. Several experimental multi-barreled automatic rifles were developed and tested in USA and elsewhere, but the Gilboa Snake seems to be the world’s first multi-barreled salvo-type assault rifle to achieve production status.

The usual select-fire Gilboa Snake rifle is, obviously, intended for military and law enforcement use; however, Silver Shadow also designed a “civilian-legal” version of the Snake rifle, which has two triggers side-by-side, each controlling its own barrel, and each capable only of semi-automatic fire.

In When the Cold Breeze Blows Away, this twin-barreled assault rifle is adopted by many special forces of the world.

A variant of this weapon fitted with an ACOG scope and a M203 grenade launcher is used by Derek Westbrook.

Another variant, called the "Gilboa Snake Assault Candy", is also used by the Barony of Sugarland and was distributed to the most experienced soldiers within the Sugarlandic Royal Army.