Mysterious Tula large-caliber sniper VM-2000

Not much is known about this large-caliber rifle sniper destination today. The development of the VM-2000 rifle was carried out by GUP KBP. She takes part in the “Burglar” program, but was immediately rejected for unclear (according to some sources - political) reasons. The rifle took part in the first stage of the competition, in which four models were presented: Tula VM-2000, OSV-96, Izhevsk SVDK and Kovrov KSVK (after ASMA). The Izhevsk rifle dropped out of the program almost immediately, VM-2000 was also removed, and eventually won KSVK, although OSV-96 showed identical results. OCB-96 did not pass because of the own self-produced SPT cartridge used, while the state already spent enough money to develop and manufacture the 7H34 munition. This was one of the reasons for adopting KSVK for mass production.

In appearance, the BM-2000 is very similar to the other OSV-96 rifle presented. According to its layout, it resembles the OTs-44 rifle, although it is very possible that the BM-2000 rifle is a separate parallel project. In open sources there is a mention of the manufacture of only ten large-caliber VM-2000. Serial rifle will not be issued, since this requires a military order, which can be obtained by winning a tender or tender for the creation of a sniper rifle for any of the security agencies.

At the first stage, the VM-2000 showed better accuracy results than the OSV-96 rifle. About the design and mechanics of accurate information is not available and it can be judged only by the available photos. The layout of VM-2000 is made according to the “bullpup” scheme. Reloading weapons manual type. To mitigate recoil, the sniper rifle is provided with a muzzle brake of modern design and compensators in the body of the rifle (possibly in the butt). For shooting using two folding bipod. Food - single-row store for five ammunition. Handle for reloading has an interesting implementation - it hangs over the trigger, and after the shot you can without looking up from the sight, reload the rifle and continue shooting again. The pictures show the use of sighting devices such as PIC. According to unconfirmed reports, the BM-2000 can conduct effective firing at distances up to 2.3 kilometers.

Key Features:
- used ammunition - caliber 12.7х108 mm;
- Bullet weight of an armor-piercing cartridge 51 grams;
- energy of the initial flight of the bullet 18.8 KJ;
- centimeter length 132;
- centimeter barrel 100;
- speed of the initial flight of a bullet 900 m / s;
- food - 5 ammunition in the store;
- The stated effective range to 2 kilometers.

Additional Information
In the course of the summer exercise of the commanders of the special militia forces in the summer of 2003, about a hundred people arrived, demonstration operations to free the hostages took place at the training ground near the village of Raevskaya. After them, at another test site, riot police officers tested the latest models of modern weapons. The riot policemen showed the greatest interest in the GM-94 hand-held grenade launcher, the Radiobarrier special complex and the VM-2000 large-caliber sniper rifle.

Information sources:
http://raigap.livejournal.com/85647.html
http://liveguns.ru/snipers/SVDK
http://forum.guns.ru/forum_light_message/51/302646.html
http://comitcont.narod.ru/vin/023vin.htm

Comments

[ANTURAG]

Serious little thing. Just some bazooka.

[Giperon.EA]

I wonder why she did not compete in the "Cracker" competition with the "KORD" ASVK,
because they are almost the same in design?

[radikdan79]

Unfortunately, as always, in such tenders there are favorites (or those who have patrons in power structures). it's my opinion. but judging by the performance characteristics and the fact that the rifle is not inferior to the ASVK, nothing else comes to mind ...

[deredevil90]

Wow, our tender is a simple formality ...

[Nechai]

"... was immediately rejected for unclear (according to some sources - political) reasons." (?!?!?!) What POLITICAL reasons could be?
Che, your division !!! Is this "raismaximovna" crap still going on - about the inadmissibility of inhuman (?!) and over-powerful weapons? In Afghanistan, stsuki, they filmed KTD-2 from BMP-2, for their common human reasons! Defeated the equipment of the sappers with antipersonnel mines! Damn fly, how long can this last?!?!?! Maybe the authorities are afraid of getting this machine into the wrong hands? So and so order, then, with the safety of weapons, it is necessary to direct. Yes, undercover, behind-the-scenes showdowns between and with the creators of weapons brought and are bringing big, to put it mildly, troubles to the Armed Forces.
VM-2000 - yes, two kilometers of the declared effective range, et! Compact like that. By googling and stumbled (http://comitcont.narod.ru/vin/023vin.htm) on another version of the technical characteristics:
Caliber: 14,5 mm
Ammunition: 14,5 * 114 mm (PTRS / KPV)
Rifle length: about 180 cm
Barrel length: about 100 cm
Food: single-row store for 3-5 shots
According to rumors, the rifle can hit targets at ranges up to 2500 meters (up to 2100-2300m).

[crambol]

Who can beat up a good technique? Only the one from whom it is possible - Arbat fortress and GRAU!

[755962]

Machine class! According to rumors, a rifle can hit targets at ranges up to 2500 meters (up to 2100-2300 m). !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHEN IN A MILITARY ?? ?????????????????????

[Redpartyzan]

You are amazed! With their own super-rifles, management raises the question of purchasing foreign ones. They fell on us?

[cord]

Special forces of the Airborne Forces have adopted more than 30 sniper rifles manufactured by the Austrian company Steyr Mannlicher. According to RIA Novosti, this was stated by Colonel Alexander Kucherenko, representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense for the Airborne Forces. According to him, the Mannlicher rifles became the first such weapons of foreign manufacture, received in the Airborne Forces. The purchase of Austrian small arms has been ongoing since the end of 2010.

[borisst64]

And already there are big claims to the reliability of this miracle of technology. The beauty and declared performance characteristics unfortunately do not always coincide with reliability, simplicity, maintainability, durability, low cost, manufacturability, etc.

[Pimply]

Because their did not meet the quality standards, were unreasonably expensive, and had problems with the service and resource.

[iulai]

they did not fall, they are agents of influence.

[AK-74-1]

Rifle class. Recently on the site was infa about the South African 20mm rifle. There, the only "+" saw replaceable barrels. Interestingly, you cannot make interchangeable barrels for example 14.5 and 9.3 mm or 12.7 and 7.62. An interesting application would be in specific sniper units. My personal opinion.
The purchase of imported samples for familiarization does not raise questions. Causes negative serial purchases.

[edge]

one rifle will not be sold, but the party please: part of the study will go, part of the gifts.

[Passing]

In addition to the trunks, it is necessary to change the bolt group and the store receiver. Almost the floor of the rifle. The question is whether this is necessary when the army has strictly defined calibers in service. Another thing is that for all kinds of specialists, such as Alpha, this can come in handy.

[vova56]

Or maybe our Supreme Commander-in-Chief fails to embrace all this, and his deputies, subordinates, are generally doing the wrong thing? They have a terrible corruption, they have no time for rifles. Generals, admirals should be replaced more often! "It is impossible to embrace the immensity" - Kozma Prutkov. President - a lesson!

[Dust]

Not to say that beautiful, but it seems that it is very effective!

[Odessa]

I also really like it, although not a beauty!

[bazilio]

Another unclaimed sample. From this series there was another rifle - SVN 98. Both samples are interesting, but for sniper shooting it is not enough to have a rifle, you need to have a special one. cartridge. and with cartridges just everything is tight. in fact, right now, in most cases, they use machine-gun ammunition. if my memory serves me, when shooting at a flush range of 1 km with a domestic 12.7 cartridge, every 100 m the flight path decreases by 5-10 cm.Therefore, errors in aiming and poor performance characteristics of the cartridge will not allow to realize the full potential of such rifles.

[radikdan79]

this is precisely the problem of the domestic military-industrial complex - the standardization of ammunition. although there are COMMON ammunition for sniper shooting in the world. this is the well-known .338 Lapua Magnum / 8.58x71 / or the new powerful cartridge (originally produced for benchrest) .408 Chey-tac. which, with the appropriate manufacture of barrels, allows reaching the level of 0.2 - 0.3 MOA (minutes of arc) http://world.guns.ru/index-r.html
accordingly, the question is brewing - why not use the cartridges mentioned above? especially since the potential of the .408 Chey-tac cartridge (as a sniper) is higher than that of the well-known 12.7x108

[_CAMOBAP_]

".. when firing at a flush distance of 1 km from the domestic 12.7 cartridge, every 100 m the flight path is reduced by 5-10 cm ...." - but what does the cartridge have to do with it? It depends on just two parameters - the initial bullet velocity (may vary) and the gravitational acceleration - 9,8 m / s2. I already once wrote that there are no miracles and talking about aimed shooting from modern sniper rifles at a distance of more than 1,5 km simply does not make sense - well, physics, guys, the law of gravity - and nothing can be done about it. For a significant increase in the aiming range, and in the case of a rifle, this is actually the range of a direct shot, you just need to (!) Significantly increase the muzzle velocity. Well, and, accordingly, somehow compensate for the return, etc., etc. Both authors and commentators often confuse engagement range (i.e., the range at which a bullet retains its damaging effect) and an effective range - and these are two big differences. I have not yet considered a simple question - at a distance of 2 km, a bullet flies for more than two seconds, a weak variable wind, for example, from 2 to 4 m / s, how much will the bullet carry during this time? On 2? At3? Or maybe a half? how to calculate it? So there are no miracles - the 1,5 km limit is for high-class snipers, everything that follows is an accident ... or a miracle, if the target, of course, is not a pink elephant.

[Bad_gr]

Quote: _CAMOBAP_

Both authors and commentators often confuse the range of defeat (i.e., the range at which the bullet retains a damaging effect) and the aiming range - and these are two big differences.

That is unlikely.
"... the range at which the bullet retains its destructive effect" (in other words, "lethal force of the bullet") - the distances are completely different. For instance:
PM has an effective firing range (aiming?) -
25 meters, slaughter - 350 meters
AKM - 800m, lethal - more than 3 km.

And here, with one rifle with the same (?) Cartridge and the same barrel length, the maximum aiming range differs by a quarter. Reason?

By the way, a bullet weighing 51 grams and at a speed of 900 m / s is not drifted by the wind slightly.

[_CAMOBAP_]

"Slightly" is a relative thing, but for sniper shooting a few centimeters are enough to miss. In fact, I did the main emphasis on the fact that - IMHO - talking about aimed shooting at a distance of more than 1,5 km is possible only theoretically, in practice there are too many random factors that no PDA can calculate.

[Bad_gr]

Quote: _CAMOBAP_

Actually, I did the main emphasis on the fact that - IMHO - talking about targeted shooting at a distance of more than 1,5 km can only be theoretically, in practice, there are too many random factors that no PDA can calculate.

And who argues with this? The computer increases the chances of hitting the target, but no one will give a 100% guarantee.

[Bad_gr]

Quote: _CAMOBAP_

Actually, I did the main emphasis on the fact that - IMHO - talking about targeted shooting at a distance of more than 1,5 km can only be theoretically, in practice, there are too many random factors that no PDA can calculate.

And who argues with this? The computer increases the chances of hitting the target, but no one will give a 100% guarantee.

[Black Colonel]

There is also aerodynamics that cannot be avoided. Both the precision of the bullet, as well as the quality of the gunpowder, are an important component of the "weapon-ammunition" complex. With a flawless rifle, low-quality ammunition will give the same quality of fire.

[Fibrizio]

Judging by the photo, the rifle must be reloaded after each shot, this is considered a "+" for sniper shooting. The ammunition is not distorted during feeding into the barrel (no mechanical deformation occurs), which positively affects the accuracy of shooting. What was said in the comments about the ammunition is certainly a flaw, and may be corrected. I will give an example from the area that I know, for example, the Intervention rifle comes with a small PDA, which allows you to calculate all the ballistics and not keep it in your head. And there is also a wide variety of ammunition.
Unfortunately, we do not have authentic results of domestic large-caliber rifles. I remember from some reports from Chechnya from the 90s that they complained about them, and why, I don’t remember.
In short, it’s not just that we buy from the West, and I hope to start doing our own thing (throughout history we adored copying weapons). The first tanks, our legendary assault rifle (not taken from the air, but modernized, albeit brilliantly).

My conclusion is that you can buy large-caliber ones, but regular army rifles need to be made, and this should not be SVD and its modifications (because of that, I definitely remember the negative reviews from Chechnya) Although the issue is debatable, Americans are in Afghanistan they entered, almost immediately mothballed their M-21s, but they did not seem to differ much from our SVD.

[radikdan79]

Fibrizio, I agree with the first part of your comment. "bolt" (ie, with a longitudinally sliding rotary bolt) rifles (as high-precision sniper weapons) have an advantage over self-loading. it is a fact. about modern gadgets somehow Ballistic calculators already immediately cling to the sight and introduce amendments themselves:
BORS by Barret /

[_CAMOBAP_]

"... about her, I definitely remember the negative reviews from Chechnya .." - and I used it in Afghanistan - a solid positive. You just need to treat a sniper rifle accordingly and not demand the impossible from it.

[radikdan79]

I apologize for the previous comment - the computer is buggy. here is the full version of what I originally wrote

Fibrizio, I agree with the first part of your comment. "bolt" (ie, with a longitudinally sliding rotary bolt) rifles (as high-precision sniper weapons) have an advantage over self-loading. it is a fact. about modern gadgets for PSih2097 sniper rifles in the comments to the article "... The modern" rifle drama "of Russia ..." on this site http://topwar.ru/14452-sovremennaya-ruzheynaya-drama-rossii.html told about promising developments (for which special thanks to him).
I agree with regard to purchases of samples of foreign weapons - one-time purchases are necessary in order to know the prospects for the development of weapons (well, to draw on something that they themselves could not do before).
copying is a moot point. if you mean "... our legendary machine gun (it did not come from the air, but was modernized, albeit brilliantly) ..." AK-47 and the German Schmeisser MP 43MP 44 Stg.44, then I suggest an excerpt from the article "... One of the myths associated with the AK says that Kalashnikov "copied" the AK from the German MR-43 assault rifle, also known as the Stg.44, indicating that, according to some sources, Schmeiser worked in Izhevsk from 1947 to 1950. Indeed, at At first glance, the external layout of the AK and MP-43 is similar, as is the concept of an automatic weapon chambered for an intermediate cartridge.Similar outlines of the barrel, front sight and gas outlet tube are due to the use of a similar gas outlet engine (invented long before Schmeisser and Kalashnikov). differs fundamentally: for AK the receiver cover is removed, for the MP-43 the USM box is folded down on the pin along with the fire control handle. new mechanisms. It is likely that Kalashnikov knew about the MP-43, but it is obvious that when creating his assault rifle, he was more guided by other well-known models and systems (see above). The main merit of Kalashnikov (or rather, his entire team involved in the development and debugging of the machine) is precisely the optimal arrangement of already known and proven solutions into a single sample that meets the requirements ... "http://world.guns.ru/assault/ rus / ak-akm-r.html
and at the expense of SVD I will also tell you my opinion. at ranges of 600-700 meters, the shooter with the SVD rifle does an excellent job. all the more so because the rifle was created for regular army units (and not special units), reliable and unpretentious.
and yet, on the basis of the Mosin rifle, they created an inexpensive and simple sniper rifle OTs-48k http://world.guns.ru/sniper/sniper-rifles/rus/ots48-r.html

[Andrey77]

Why not a word about accuracy? 0.5 MOA gives though? If not - in the trash.

[PSih2097]

Rather, 1 MOA, although if normal sniper ammunition is used, I think it will be less.

[Vedruss]

Interesting article!

[Bad_gr]

Interestingly, the KVSK indicates the effective range of manpower of 1500m, and they say that there is no guarantee of hit because the machine-gun cartridge, but there is no sniper. And at VM-2000 indicate the effective range of 2000m, with the same barrel length. Is the cartridge different?

[Bad_gr]

Interestingly, the KVSK indicates the effective range of manpower of 1500m, and they say that there is no guarantee of hit because the machine-gun cartridge, but there is no sniper. And at VM-2000 indicate the effective range of 2000m, with the same barrel length. Is the cartridge different?

[Bad_gr]

Quote: Bad_gr

KSVK indicates the effective range of manpower of 1500m, and they write that there is no guarantee of hit as a machine-gun cartridge, but no sniper. And at VM-2000 indicate the effective range of 2000m, with the same barrel length.

By the way, the DShK (DShKM) machine gun, all other things being equal, has an aiming range on ground targets of 3500 m. But it’s clear (the effectiveness of fire at this range is achieved due to the greater density of fire)

[Severe]

My opinion is that SVL should be in the army !!!!

[Filin]

I had a V-94 rifle with me. A good, folding rifle.

[Andrey77]

Eagle owl, did you shoot from it (B-94)? Please the successes. And then I will upset the readers. I understand that it’s very comfortable, but no one canceled the firing characteristics.

[Yasniper]

I apologize for getting in, the V-94 rifle is very effective and a sniper cartridge was made for it, of course, but it was. About now not in the know.

[cth; fyn]

you can replace the SVD SVDK, all the same now in the world there is a tendency to increase the caliber of rifles.

[Andrey77]

Can. What's the point? SVD is not even a sniper rifle in the modern sense. Yes, specialists are trying to squeeze out of it (for lack of a better one) all that is possible. But my simple hunting SHR .308Win in the same specialists hands will be much more efficient!

[the47th]

I think that comparing a bolt and a self-loading rifle is at least incorrect.

[krokodil]

Thank you for the article .

[crambol]

Colleagues! Isn't it time to arrange an official competition with field tests of all types of sniper weapons? And then apart from "nizzy" nothing is heard! So we risk entering the thirtieth century with Chinese-made slingshots!