Sniper Elite 5 How to Unlock All Weapons

Sniper Elite 5 contains a total of 18 weapons. There are 6 Sniper Rifles, 6 Secondary Weapons (SMG / Assault Rifle), 6 Pistols. This guide shows how to unlock all of them.

There are two general ways of unlocking weapons: Some are automatic rewards from progressing the story past certain missions, the rest comes from doing the optional kill challenge in each mission. The optional kill challenges are the only tricky ones. Each mission has a main “kill list” target. These are circled red on your map, they are a specific target person you must eliminate to finish the mission. The optional challenges want you to kill them using a certain method as explained below.

Make a manual save before approaching the target. If something goes wrong you can reload that save without needing to replay the entire mission. The kill challenges can be seen by opening the World Map (Touchpad) > press to view Objectives > scroll over the red “Kill List” objective > check the Kill Challenge in bottom right.

To check weapon masteries: Press Options-Button during a Mission > Options (Tab in Top Row) > Service Records (3rd Tab from Bottom) > Medals (3rd Tab in Top Row) > Weapons and Items (3rd Tab from Left) > Scroll down to “Master of Pistols” / “Master of Secondaries” / “Master of Rifles” > scroll over the medal to view your progress.

Pistol masteries require 50 stealth kills, Secondary Weapons require any 150 kills. You can farm these quickly by going to a workbench in Mission 2, knock out enemies to render them unconscious, pile up their bodies next to workbench, make manual save (while out of combat), kill them, reload save. After mastering a pistol/secondary, change the weapon at the workbench and repeat for the next weapon.
Sniper Rifle masteries require 50 headshots at over 100 meters, which are quickly farmed at the start of Mission 9, just make a manual save, headshot everyone except the main target, reload and repeat.

Each weapon has various Mods. You can customize those in the loadout screen before missions. Most of them are unlocked from Workbenches, a type of Collectible. If you need help finding the Workbenches refer to the Collectible Guide: Sniper Elite 5 Collectible Guide.

Sniper Rifles

1. M.1903 – Unlocked from the start
2. SREM-1 – Unlocked from the start
3. Gewehr 1943 – Complete Mission 3
4. Karabiner 98 – Complete Kill Challenge in Mission 2 (Crush him with one of the Chateau’s chandeliers) – knock him out, carry him under a chandelier in the hall in the east of the chateau castle, shoot chains holding the chandelier to drop it on him while he’s unconscious.
   
   
5. M1A Carbine – Complete Mission 5
6. RSC 1918 – Complete Kill Challenge in Mission 7 (Kill target with a V2) – inside the building where the kill target is, hangs a V2 rocket in a wind tunnel. You must drop this on him. You can simply knock him out, carry him under it, then shoot the hooks of the V2 or climb the ladders and push the switch upstairs to drop it down.
   

Secondary Weapons

1. M1A1 GOV. – Unlocked from the start
2. Welgun SMG – Unlocked from the start
3. Machine PIST.40 – Complete Kill Challenge in Mission 1 (kill target with an explosion) – simply throw a sticky grenade at him or shoot an explosive canister near him
4. Machine Pist.44 – Complete Kill Challenge in Mission 4 (kill the target using a Rat Bomb) – you can find one in the default starting point as you leave (upstairs). Place it in the room where the kill target is, you can put it under the shelves where it gives the option to “place rat bomb”. The easiest option is to shoot the target in the leg once to hurt him, then knock him target ( ), carry him over to where you placed the rat bomb, shoot the rat bomb and it should kill him while he’s unconscious. Note that if you don’t hurt him beforehand a single ratbomb explosion may not kill him, but if you shot him in the leg before knocking him out a single rat bomb explosion should do the kill. Alternatively, you can throw bottles at the rat bomb to lure him there and then shoot it to blow it up.
5. Stengun MK2 – Complete Mission 6 Liberation
6. Type 100 – Complete Kill Challenge in Mission 5 (kill the target by burying him in concrete) – knock out the target with instead of killing him. On the upper level of the construction site (red circled kill area on map) there’s a concrete machine you can sabotage. This will start pouring concrete on the ground below the sabotaged machine. Now carry the unconscious kill target over and throw him over the railing into the concrete.
   

Pistols

1. M1911 – Unlocked from the start
2. Welrod – Unlocked from the start
3. MK VI Revolver – Complete Mission 2
4. Model D – Complete Kill Challenge in Mission 6 (kill the target using poison) – go to the villa where your kill target is at. On the ground floor you can find poison, pick it up, go upstairs. Then upstairs put the poison in the glass outside the door, then hit the bell next to the glass. Hide and wait for the Major to come out and drink it, he will die within seconds of drinking it.
   
   
5. Pistol 08 – Complete Kill Challenge in Mission 3 (kill the target using a stealth takedown) – get to the top floor of the cathedral in stealth. Just be sneaky, use the Welrod Pistol to kill enemies with headshots from afar and play on the lowest difficulty civilian to dumb down the AI. Once you reach the top floor where the kill target is, do not shoot him through the rafters. Instead, use the key to open the side door, can be looted from the officer patrolling the upstairs area. Head in briefly, then head back out and wait until the officers finish their meeting and walk out, can take a few minutes. After they walk out, sneak up behind the kill target and do a melee-takedown in stealth. Shooting him somehow doesn’t count, probably because the other officers will spot the kill.
6. Type 14 Nambu – Complete Kill Challenge in Mission 8 (kill target using a Japanese Weapon Type 14 Nambu or Type 100) – in the house where the kill target is at is another officer carrying a Type 14 Nambu pistol (upstairs), but it can also be found sitting around the floor upstairs. Use this particular pistol to shoot the target.

That’s all of the weapons and how to unlock them in Sniper Elite 5.