In GOST 28653-90 says that the sniper rifle is a fighting rifle, which provides increased accuracy, due to its design. In the army’s first sniper rifle appeared in the First world war.
Then in the army were selected precise models of weapons, and they just put the sight, often intended for civilian hunters. All this changed by the beginning of the Second world war.
In the Soviet Union at the beginning of the Second world war there were a few sniper rifles. Despite this, the war and the circumstances showed that indeed fit to use only one of them. But the answer to this seemingly obvious question, found not at once.
With the war than the Soviet sniper.
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Soviet sniper.
Intensive work on the development and creation of sniper weapons in the Soviet Union began a 20-ies of XX century. Ironically, helped the Soviet Union in this field was Germany, which was at that time a well-developed optical industry. Thanks to the help of the German company Carl Zeiss, the country began the production of military optics.
That was a turning point, as the requirements for the production of military optics are much stiffer than the production of civilian models.
As a result, in 1930, the armament was adopted by the first sniper scope own production by the acronym PT. With him began to appear, dozens of modernized under sniper case gun systems. Was not only rifles, but even revolvers with optics. In the same year, the scope of PT has faced harsh criticism in the army. Scolded a “hack” for everything: for the optical quality, the integrity of the sight, the overall strength and reliability, the mounting and fixing of the flywheels. Sight urgently modified and renamed in PE.
New is not always best
The ill-fated ABC.
As the other rifles in production, the USSR was not, the optics began to put on “old-fashioned” Mosin 91/30. It is noteworthy that while the decision in the armed forces was considered temporary as the command hoped soon to have the automatic sniper rifle. And she appeared. Rifle AVS-36, the first automatic rifle of the USSR was adopted in 1936. For it was approved and the sniper variant. But soon she is caught in the crucible of the Finnish war and proved to be completely wrong. The troops of the AVS-36 was considered not sufficiently reliable.
Sniper SVT.
A few years later adopted was adopted SVT-40, which also had the sniper variant. As a result, the conveyors of the Soviet factories went two samples sniper rifles – SVT-40 and Mosin 91/30. From the mass of samples, they are characterized by high manufacturing precision barrel, precision fit of the barrel to the receiver and some other items. For example, a sniper Mosin 91/30 was charged with only one cartridge. With these sniper rifles USSR and greeted the outbreak of war.
Weapons of victory
Actually, the Mosin rifle.
In 1941 the troops were snipers with rifles Mosin 91/30 equipped with a sniper scope PE. This sight had a ratio of 3.85. Was with the SVT-40, which was equipped with a PU scopes with magnification of 3.5. Both rifles were designed to fire at 1000-1300 meters. The Mosin rifle before the war was taken out of production as obsolete. And that was a mistake.
It soon became clear that the SVT-40 for the red army too capricious weapons. The culture of novelty has not been able to catch up with the culture of the Mosin rifle. Moreover, the production of the “antiquated” 91/30 was much better established plants. The rifle was returned to the conveyor, and SVT-40 was gradually abandoned. Took it out of production in 1942. The Mosin rifle has migrated riflescope magnification 3.5 PU, as a more perfect and convenient.
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