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Nowadays, Russia’s elite security services and military snipers prefer Western sniper rifles while the Russian arms industry catches up. But how did the Dragunov fall behind? Does it have a ...

Common Russian battle tactics ... Vitaly Timkiv//Getty Images The view through a Dragunov sniper rifle, October 2017. Before the T-5000, Russia used the Dragunov, a good quality rifle but with ...

Vitaly V. Kuzmin At the end of 2016, the Russian defense industry announced it was ready to begin mass production of a new sniper rifle. The new model is slated to become the main sniper weapon ...

It boasts a range of about 6,500 feet, making it one of the longest-range Russian rifles. Another prominent name on this list is the Dragunov SVD, which has been in use since the 1960s.

The U.S. military is looking to equip special operations forces with their longest-range sniper rifle ever fielded in an effort to maintain superiority against Russian and Chinese snipers in a ...

This is the same round used in the current SVD sniper rifle used by Russian snipers. The Chukavin was designed to provide Russian snipers with a rifle that enables first round hits nearly all the time ...

The Dragunov SVD entered the service of the Russian military in the early 1960s The SVD is chambered for 7.62x54mm rounds and has an effective range over 4,200 feet This sniper rifle has been ...

Historical arms collectors are often confronted with opportunities to acquire guns that are outside the normal boundaries of their collections, like, in this instance, Russian rifles that were ...

Perhaps one-quarter of Ukraine’s snipers have thermal sights on their rifles, like the one shown, providing a decisive advantage over their Russian counterparts. “The Ukrainians have very ...