Rifles assembled at the private weapons production of Vladislav Lobayev in the Kaluga region have long been beyond the scope of conventional sniper weapons. As they say in such cases: "Firm brooms do not knit." Modern high-precision sniper systems manufactured by Lobaev Arms no longer resemble a combined arms weapon.
An uninitiated person with a quick glance in a fashionable “chatter” painted in summer greenish camouflage can be guessed by some new-fashioned “Remington” or “Intervention”, but the engraving of “Lobaev Arms” makes it clear that this product was made in Russia .
DXL-2 HARASSER (“INNOVER”)
Impressions of high cost and quality, attention to detail - something like these is experienced when one of the most advanced rifles of the Lobaev company is in the hands - DXL-2. Most professional snipers, athletes and connoisseurs of benchrest in one voice say that the “Lobaev” rifle on an aluminum frame is one of the best that you can buy for money.
Technically uniqueness of the rifle is given traditionally minimal tolerances, which are not just laws - the philosophy of the Russian gunsmith company. Technical accuracy in 0,35MOA on 100 meters with a group of five shots is an incredible result.
The caliber in which the DXL-2 is made is still one of the most successful sniper ammunition in the line. The 308 Winchester (or 7,62x51-mm in Russian) is one of the most stable ammunition for firing at a distance of just over a thousand meters. According to the characteristics of such ammunition can be compared with the domestic 7,62x54-mm, but only in a high-quality rifle with well-cut barrel channels such ammunition will be able to reveal its full potential.
Despite the fact that a serious ammunition condemns a rifle to a serious return, this problem is not observed in DXL-2. Subjectively, the constructive decisions and the individual elements of the structure are worked out in a Russian rifle in such a way that you feel no recoil when fired than when firing from some small piece. Is that the sound of a shot hints at the fact that in your hands is not a children's hack for shooting at sparrows, but a serious sniper rifle, which can be used by the FSB special unit sniper.
During the painstaking study of competitors, one gradually comes to the conclusion that foreign competitors such as the widely advertised Steyr SSG 08 for the same ammunition and its declared accuracy - less than one minute of minutes looks like a dull and unattractive Russian background. However, apparently, a graceful beauty with a longitudinal sliding gate is not all that a private Russian company is going to represent.
The development team plans to release a more “heavy” version, which will be more like a small howitzer that can knock down a dinosaur, because the ammunition that Vladislav Lobayev’s team plans to use for it is nothing but the .408 CheyTac cartridge, which (albeit from another rifle) a little earlier the world record was set in the firing range - 3440 meters.
DVL-10 SABOTEUR ("SABOTER")
Perhaps the most unusual rifle, which only ever seen. The national school of designing sniper weapons, which once gave the army the legendary SVD, the large-caliber 6C8 “Kord”, in rifles built without a drop of state support, is not guessed at all. The smoothness of the lines, convenience, versatility, an abundance of mounts, slats - all this gives the rifle a modern and technically thoughtful product.
For a long time I had to figure out what class this weapon belongs to. The founder of the company, Vladislav Lobayev, dispelled doubts and reflections: “By and large, the DVL-10 can be effectively used both in the police special forces units and as the main sniper rifle of the army units. Here, each according to his needs, ”the Russian armorer tells in an exclusive interview with Zvezda.
The combination of qualities, according to Vladislav, is quite enough for firing in any conditions: in a mountain-wooded area, in a city ... and everywhere where it is necessary to precisely put a bullet in 308 caliber at a distance of a thousand meters. The accuracy of the DVL-10 rifle is traditional for rifles produced in Tarusa - 0,4 MOA at a distance of 100 meters with a group of five shots (12mm between the centers). Completes the picture of impressions of a rifle that is light and compact by the standards of sniper armament - a magazine for 10 cartridges, with which you can conduct high-precision shooting for quite a long time.
ADULT TOYS
Sniping sniping strife. The suppression of gangsters in urban environments is not the same as counter-sniper shooting. The realities of modern war have long shown the need to use counter-sniper groups - specially trained shooters, whose goal is the destruction of enemy sniper pairs. That such people are needed, everyone agrees. The main controversy arises around what kind of rifle should be used for this.
For konstsniperskoy shooting in the armies of Western countries are used rifles completely different calibers - from 308 to 50BMG caliber (12,7x99mm). However, those whose idol was and remains Colonel Jeff Cooper - mentor of the western school of combat shooters, know that for each specific task you need your own rifle. The Russian philosophy of counter-sniper shooting is represented by the DXL-4 rifle chambered for the 408 Cheytac cartridge (10.3x77mm).
Massive, thundering ammunition during a shot can completely smudge an enemy sniper at distances of up to two and a half thousand meters inclusive. The radius of damage from such a rifle cannot be described verbally, and it is difficult to explain exactly how a rifle shoots with accuracy at 0,45MOA when the target is barely different in optics. The skepticism about the novelty from Lobayeva is dissipated when Nicholas Smith is connecting to talk about high-precision systems - an American shooting athlete, a former sniper of the Navy Seals division (US NAVY SEAL), and now a high-precision shooting instructor.
It turns out that private domestic sniper systems in the West are watched no worse than domestic sniper weapons lovers are watching the news "from there":
“When a friend called me and said that the Russians were firing the farthest in the world, and from a rifle assembled by a private company, I thought it was some sort of rubbish. Then I looked at the report and realized that this guy from the city, whose names I could not even pronounce, was able to achieve a phenomenal level of shooting, both in range and quality. After reading about what exactly they are doing, I realized that the Russians are serious players in the world market of sniper weapons, ”an American veteran sniper said in an interview with Zvezda.
The rifle developed by Lobaev’s team is not just a weapon that shoots far and accurately. In addition to the accuracy of the DXL-4 has such a working temperature range, which is not the majority of manufacturers of sniper weapons. Such a rifle can work from -45 degrees to + 65 degrees Celsius, which means that the Russian army sniper (on which such rifles are mainly oriented) can quite easily shoot such a rifle somewhere in the Arctic, without thinking about that she is even theoretically capable of letting him down.
According to many army snipers, such a rifle was not enough for a long time in service with the Russian army. World-class rifles with the label “Lobaev Arms” finally made it clear that the era of total superiority of Western sniper weapons had irrevocably gone, and the Russian army sniper had its own hero and its own “rifle”.