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Dragunov SVD (USSR/Russia)![]() Original SVD with wooden stock ![]() Latest variant of SVD, with polymer stock and handguards, and new polymer magazine ![]() SVD-S - SVD with shortened barrel and folding metal buttstock Caliber: Russian 7.62x54mm Rimmed SVD was designed not as a standart sniper rifle. In fact, main role of
the SVD ir Soviet / Russian Army is to extend effective range of fire of
every infantry squad up to 600 meters and to provide special fire support.
SVD is a lightweight and quite accurate (for it's class) rifle, cabable of
semi-auto fire. First request for new sniper rifle was issued in 1958. In
1963 SVD (Snaiperskaya Vintovka Dragunova, or Dragunov Sniper Rifle) was
accepted by Soviet Military. SVD can use any kind of standart 7.62x54R
ammo, but primary round is specially developed for SVD sniper-grade
cartridge with steel-core bullet. Every infantry squad in the Russian
(Soviet) army had one man with SVD. |