The .338 Lapua Magnum (8.six×70 mm or eight.58×70 mm) can be a rimless, bottlenecked, centerfire rifle cartridge. It had been designed over the nineteen eighties to be a high-powered, long-range cartridge for army snipers. As a result of its use while in the War in Afghanistan along with the Iraq War, the cartridge is becoming broadly offered.The