Austrian sniper weapons will replace the famous Dragunov rifle in Russian intelligence
The Dragunov sniper rifle (SVD) of a millimeter caliber 7,62 has been used by Russian Army snipers for combat missions up to the present. Remain in service with special rifles for silent shooting (BCC) caliber nine millimeters, SVD-S with a folding butt and the legendary Vintorez.
The planned rearmament of the snipers of the Ministry of Defense expected to begin in early autumn. The military noted the fact that the SVD does not meet the modern requirements of combat and snipers need rifles that are twice as high as the SVD characteristics.
As you can see, the choice fell on the Steyr Mannlicher SSG 04 sniper rifle from Austria, designed for snipers, who are faced with the task of hitting the target at a greater distance than the sighting range of the SVD. The production of this product is the Austrian company Steyr-Mannlicher AG.
Rifle Presentation: Steyr Mannlicher SSG 04
The Mannlicher rifle has a caliber exactly the same as the Dragunov rifle - a millimeter 7,62, and there is exactly the same magazine for ten rounds. Unlike the SVD, the Austrian offspring has a more powerful cartridge, thanks to which the slaughter and aiming range is immeasurably longer than that of the Dragunov rifle. With Mannlicher, you can hit a target at a distance of more than one kilometer, while the SVD has an aimed range of only 800 meters.
The undoubted advantage of the Mannicher rifle is an excellent build quality, 14-multiple more advanced sight with a fundamentally different method of attachment, individual settings for firing a particular sniper, while taking into account his anatomical features. Of course, there are some nuances: the comments of the experts touched the shutter. It is made according to the longitudinally sliding principle, and when used, constant manual reloading is a requirement. At the same time, the advantage of this embodiment is the better accuracy of fire compared to the SVD.
Despite these characteristics of Mannlicher, the Dragunov rifle is not going to be written off as scrap for the leadership of the intelligence unit. In the future, the use of two types of rifles for solving various combat missions.
We must pay tribute to our weapons. SVD was developed in 1958-1963 by the design office under the strict guidance of Evgeniy Dragunov. Automatic recharge shutter, was developed by the type of Kalashnikov assault rifle - the energy of the powder gases brought the firing pin into a state of combat by diverting gases from the barrel to the gas piston. The “undercarriage” cartridge used at that time in 7,62 × 54 mm caliber was offered both with an ordinary bullet and armor-piercing, tracer and sniper. SVD also equipped with expansive bullets. Firing was proposed to conduct single shots, with the possibility of picking with a PSO-1 telescopic sight and the possibility of installing NSPUM night sights.
Having responded to the new developments of our design bureaus, such as: a rifle, piercing an BTR with its bullet, and a machine gun with underwater ammunition, the task of updating small arsenals weapons on more modernized options has become one of the most important tasks of the Ministry of Defense. Despite its prestige throughout the world, the Kalashnikov assault rifle has also been criticized by analysts. The “accusation” side stressed that this model was outdated long ago and was unable to effectively perform combat missions. The Ministry of Defense made a statement on the termination of the purchase of this type of weapon, explaining that the warehouses are already overflowing with "Kalash". "Izhmash" promptly responded to this criticism, starting to develop a new type of weapon even before the start of the competition for the development of new-generation machines. Designers put the AK-12 dignity at the forefront - being able to use it with one hand, to which the military department reacted with the suspicion that the new sample would copy all the flaws of the AK-47, as it is created on its basis.
The Russian defense industry, in the person of its experts, stresses that the weapons produced by them are not inferior to foreign counterparts, and also surpasses them, which was presented last week in Klimovsk. The meeting of the scientific and technical council of the Military Industrial Commission under the Government of Russia, on the basis of the demonstration complex of the Central Research Institute of Precision Engineering, was able to inspect the development of small arms.
Viktor Litovkin, a columnist for the Independent Military Survey, highlighted the most interesting and promising model of the two-medium ADS machine (working on land and under water) of 12,7 caliber of millimeters. The range of aimed shooting, though 800 meters, is equipped with an underwater silent grenade in a grenade launcher weighing 80 grams and has the ability to hit the enemy with both conventional and underwater cartridges.
A pistol shooting under water with a cartridge caliber 9x19 Gryazev-Shipunova was presented for review. It differs in the capacity of the store (18 cartridges) and low weight.
Striking combat characteristics rifles ADF and ASH-12. These rifles, with a subsonic bullet, at a distance of 600 meters are able to penetrate the armor of an BTR. They are equipped with silencers, a four-element armor-piercing ammunition, a modern fire control device that contains a ballistic computer that automatically corrects the sight depending on the air temperature and atmospheric pressure, as well as a range finder. But, according to the manufacturers, this type of rifles is purchased by the Ministry of Defense at best for another two years.
According to the NWO, the refusal of the Defense Ministry to buy mass-produced small arms and the accompanying means of supporting the battle is a factor that affects the stable operation of even the oldest and most famous defense enterprises. This problem has become one of the acute topics raised at a meeting of the scientific and technical council of the Military-Industrial Commission under the government.
To the question raised by the meeting participants to the military, about the unreasonably low orders of the Ministry of Defense for melee weapons, that this is one of the main factors affecting the stability of enterprises involved in the production of this type of weaponry, the military could not answer. The defense also expressed their bewilderment about the refusal to buy modern weapons from the defense industrial complex, emphasizing that such an approach to the orders of the military department leads to a reduction in staff and contradicts economic laws.
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