What happened before SVD

February 20 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of a remarkable Soviet designer weapons - Evgenia Dragunova. Evgeny Fedorovich entered the domestic and world history as the creator of a large number of small arms samples, among which, certainly, the SVD - the Dragunov sniper rifle stands apart.

When it comes to domestic sniper small arms, then, of course, they remember first of all about SVD. At the same time, not every person will say what the sniper weapon was in the arsenal of our army before a truly iconic SVD appeared.

In the lecture hall of the Kalashnikov channel, writer and historian of domestic weapons Andrei Ulanov talks about sniper weapons.

Andrey Ulanov:

It is worth talking about what generally led to the creation of SVD. This rifle did not appear on its own, not because it was just such a dream that Yevgeny Fedorovich. This was the result of many years of experience, a rather difficult path, which was not always successful. The result was one of the best sniper rifles of the XNUMXth century.

The expert talks about how and when in general in our country they began to systematically and seriously approach the creation of sniper weapons.

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[Horst78]

3x ruler still

[mat-vey]

So they have a "one" cartridge with the SVD. Continuity)))))

[WILL]

Quote: Horst78

3x ruler still

Quote: mat-vey

So they have a "one" cartridge with the SVD. Continuity)))))

Worthy Weapons! Honor and praise to the Russian gunsmiths! But, time is moving inexorably forward!
SVD - You can’t call it a Sniper rifle anymore, this is a self-loading rifle designed for combined arms combat, although it has a certain margin of versatility, it does not behave badly in the conditions of urban battle with a confident hit of targets up to 500 meters. According to modern NATO classifications, a Marxman rifle ... well, or in our case, an infantry sniper (for working at medium distances). However, for a High-End Sniper, to hit targets with One shot, it is still preferable to bolt the Weapon with a noticeably more powerful cartridge!

[Catfish]

The question is where it steers. Among the rifles with a longitudinally-sliding bolt (bolts), the Mauser K98 initially drives this rifle, this rifle, and especially its bolt, was not copied only by the lazy one.

[Sapsan136]

In fact, from among the large countries, Mauser, officially, under license, under an American cartridge, was released only in the USA ... There this rifle was produced under the name Springfield ...

[Catfish]

Large countries ... Yes, almost all of Europe, capable of producing its own weapons, was armed with these Mausers before the Second World War. I do not speak for China and other Latin America. At Springfield, there was only a shutter from Mauser, which I mentioned above.

[Sapsan136]

Britain had its own LiMetfords and LeeEnfields with their bolts, the colonies of England armed themselves with them .. Russia had its own rifles ... Czechoslovakia generally produced quite decent self-loading rifles of Kholik ... Mexico had a Mondragon rifle ... Yes, and the Yankees soon switched to M- 1..

[Catfish]

Czechoslovakia has been releasing its Mauser Vz.1924 since 24, Mexico has been releasing Mauser since 1936, and Lee-Anfield shutter is a shutter licked from Mauser. And the trunks of Mondragon and Holek are neither to the village, nor to the city. We are not talking about Tokarev, remembering Mosinka.
And about the fact that "yes, and the Yankees soon switched ...", so you would immediately remember Armalight.

[Sapsan136]

Here is an article about what happened before the SVD, and before the SVD there were a lot of things and SVT including ... At the expense of Enfield, the British will not agree with you ... I don’t want to argue with you .. Especially since the SVD is a self-loading rifle and the shops here are not quite in the subject ... You can just as well have the Winchesters, or Berdanki recall, some of them also put something like optics ...

[Catfish]

Good night and Happy Holiday! You are right, the article here is about SVD, but a colleague Horst78 (Slava) wrote that "the 3-ruler still rules", I replied. But only. As for the British, it is their own business to agree or disagree with whoever they "borrowed" the shutter scheme from. Lee-Metford and Lee-Enfield are completely different rifles. Yes, and Oliver Winchester and Hiram Berdan are also not a sin to remember. Here, after all, not lectures are read to people, but a normal conversation is going on between sane people. Sometimes, however, all sorts of personalities happen, this is not about you.

[Sapsan136]

Thanks you too ! Metford, this is a rifle, Anfield, essentially a rifle ... And Kholik’s rifles were not very bad ... The French RICs were worse than our SVT ... I’m reading Marzhecki’s horror stories right now ... He’s scaring us with Turkey ... Funny small..

[Catfish]

And who is Marzhetsky? I don't go to political sites, we have a certain audience doing this here. And so, here both on Weapons and on History there is something and with whom to talk. And about the Enfield-Metfords, I meant their bolts, and the carbine, or the rifle, it makes no difference. I have never seen any modern usable weapon among the French. True, I had a chance to shoot from the "Walter-Manurin" 22LR, and I liked the pistol, but to call it a weapon - God forbid.

[Sapsan136]

This is a funny type who considers Israel a great power, and Turkey a death star, not otherwise ... We laughed at him with all our calculations yesterday .. This is not a political site, this is a Reporter site .. RSC is a French self-loading rifle .. crude, but accepted into service ... back in the First World War. By reliability, a Frenchwoman is better than German self-charges, but worse than Russian

[Catfish]

I know the RIC, I had to hold it in my hands in the storeroom of the museum of the Armed Forces, heavy, uncomfortable and, in my opinion, quite clumsy. But you yourself know, until you shoot at least fifty from the barrel, it’s impossible to seriously talk about a specific weapon. And about German self-loading, besides, probably, G43, it makes no sense to speak.

[Sapsan136]

Therefore, the Germans liked to use captured SVTs, their own weapons of this class were not of high quality, and Mauser’s self-loading models were worse than Walter’s ... I didn’t hold the RSC in my hands ... After it, the French had MAS 44,49 self-loading, 56 and XNUMX ... including optics.

[Catfish]

Because the Germans loved to use captured SVT,

Still not to love ... To literally get a bunch of very good weapons, with wagons of ammunition in addition and, practically for nothing, it is impossible not to love here. I read the memoirs of a sniper from "Leibstandart" on the Kursk Bulge, with great love he wrote about the SVT-40. And we, the mass of soldiers, simply did not have that cult to the use of weapons, like the Germans. They cleaned 3 lines "once a year" and at least she had henna, and SVT was already a weapon of another generation, and our man in his mass, alas, did not grow up to it, but the German appreciated it right away.

[Sapsan136]

The Germans already had an army mobilized, having combat experience, and of course discipline .. If in the USSR, having fallen into the penal battalion, you could return to the regular unit after being wounded, then the Germans and after being wounded were returned to the penal battalion until the end of the war ... We SVT was loved by sailors, where the level of education was higher ...

[Catfish]

You definitely noticed about sailors, people didn’t deal with a plow, but with equipment.

[Amateur]

A guy nude-nude almost 24 minutes, but he didn’t say anything about SVD. In addition, he questioned the opinion of L. Pavlichenko (309 confirmed exterminations of enemy soldiers and officers, including 36 enemy snipers), who fought with SVT-40 and did not know why he was trying to assign the PSO-1 sight to Dragunov.
On the day of the 100th anniversary of Evgeny Fedorovich Dragunov, it was possible to more carefully prepare the material.

[pafegosoff]

Long time ago I read in the magazine "Weapon" about the German gunsmiths in Izhevsk.
The most useless fascist was Schmeisser.
But the creators of the MG-42 were noted there by their active work and assistance to Dragunov (it seems that there were problems with the springs), the son of Dragunov also notes their constructive activity and sociability.

[Paul Siebert]

They say that Dmitry Mendeleev also saw his periodic system of elements in a dream.
Well, geniuses even sleep in vain!
Oh, to see in a dream. something like that ... Homeland needed! So much time is wasted ...

[Dedok]

SVT-40 can not be compared with a three-line, in any parameter.
40 hits herself.

[Sapsan136]

Before SVD there were a lot of things, there were at least 7 sniper modifications of the Mosin rifle, there were sniper versions of the SVT-38 (in two versions) and SVT-40 (in two versions) ...