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Chukavin Sniper Rifle
The SVCh (СВЧ; Russian: Снайперская Винтовка Чукавина, romanized: ''Snayperskaya Vintovka Chukavina'', lit. 'Chukavin Sniper Rifle') is a semi-automatic designated marksman rifle/sniper rifle chambered for fully powered cartridges developed by the Kalashnikov Concern. It is designed to replace the SVD in the Army of the Russian Federation. History The SVCh rifle was designed on the basis of the SVK-2016 rifle. It was first presented in 2017 at the military-technical forum “Army-2017”. Russian tests of the Chukavin rifle have been completed in the fall 2021 and the rifle was recommended for adoption. The first deliveries were in September 2022. Long-term contracts have been signed. In November 2022, a decision was made to begin purchasing rifles for the needs of the Russian army. The contract for the first batch was signed by the Ministry of Defence. In February 2023 it was reported that mass-production began by Kalashnikov Concern. The qual ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sniper Rifle
A sniper rifle is a high-precision, long range shooting, long-range rifle. Requirements include high accuracy, reliability, mobility, concealment, and optics, for anti-personnel weapon, anti-personnel, anti-materiel rifle, anti-materiel and surveillance uses by military snipers. The modern sniper rifle is a portable shoulder-fired rifle with either a bolt action or semi-automatic firearm, semi-automatic action (firearms), action, fitted with a telescopic sight for extreme accuracy and chambered for a high-ballistic performance Centerfire ammunition, centerfire cartridge (firearms), cartridge. History The Whitworth rifle was arguably the first long-range sniper rifle in the world. Designed in 1854 by Sir Joseph Whitworth, a prominent British engineer, it used barrels with hexagonal polygonal rifling, which meant that the projectile did not have to "bite" into the rifling grooves as with conventional rifling. His rifle was far more accurate than the Pattern 1853 Enfield, which ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rail Integration System
file:Dovetail.jpg, A dovetail rail on a rifle receiver for scope mount, mounting a Sight (device), sight A rail integration system (RIS; also called a rail accessory system (RAS), rail interface system, rail system, mount, base, gun rail, or simply a rail) is a generic term for any standardization, standardized attachment system for mounting firearm accessories via bar stock, bar-like straight brackets (i.e. "rails") often with regularly spaced slots. Rail systems are usually made of strips of metal or polymer screw-fastened onto the gun's receiver (firearms), receiver, barrel shroud, handguard, or stock (firearms)#Fore-end, fore-end stock to allow variable-position attachments. An advantage of the multiple rail slots is the moveable positions to adjust for optimal placement of each item for a user's preferences, along with the ability to switch different items at different placements due to varying eye reliefs on gun sights. Firearm accessories commonly compatible with or inten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kalashnikov Rifle
Kalashnikov rifles (), also known as the AK platform, AK rifles, or simply the AK, are a family of assault rifles based on Mikhail Kalashnikov's original design. They are officially known in Russian as ''avtomat Kalashnikova'' (), and informally as ''kalash'' in Russian. They were originally manufactured in the Soviet Union by Kalashnikov Concern (formerly Izhmash). Rifles similar to the Kalashnikov and its Soviet variants were later produced in many countries friendly to the Soviet Bloc, with rifles based on its design such as the Galil ACE and the INSAS also being produced. The Kalashnikov is one of the most widely used firearm A firearm is any type of gun that uses an explosive charge and is designed to be readily carried and operated by an individual. The term is legally defined further in different countries (see legal definitions). The first firearms originate ...s in the world, with an estimated 72 million rifles in global circulation. List of AK rifles The o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kalashnikov Concern AMB-17
The Kalashnikov Concern AMB-17 (, awaiting GRAU designation), is an integrally suppressed compact assault rifle, chambered in subsonic 9×39mm SP5 cartridge and armour-piercing SP6 cartridge. It was developed and manufactured alongside the Kalashnikov Concern AM-17, which was based on the Yevgeny Dragunov MA compact assault rifle. Both the AM-17 and AMB-17 were unveiled by Kalashnikov Concern at the Russian Army Expo 2017. The AMB-17 is designed for covert close quarters operations, primarily for special units of the Russian Interior Ministry and the Russian Army intended as a potential replacement for the AS Val and VSS Vintorez. Design details The AMB-17 has an integral suppressor mounted on the front of the upper receiver which wraps around the barrel. In order for the suppressor to be integrated, the AMB-17 employs a wider opening within its handguard as compared to the AM-17, along with the front of the upper receiver which also allows for an integrated handguard half-leng ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kalashnikov Concern AM-17
The Kalashnikov Concern AM-17 (, GRAU index 6P74) is a compact assault rifle that is chambered in 5.45×39mm intermediate cartridge. History The AM-17 was first unveiled in the Russian Army Expo 2017 alongside the integrally suppressed AMB-17, it was developed and manufactured by Kalashnikov Concern. Its development began in the late 2010s, and was based on the Yevgeny Dragunov MA compact assault rifle. The AM-17 has completed the acceptance trials. Serial production of the carbine will start in 2025. Design details The AM-17 is designed for close quarters operations, primarily for military and law enforcement units of the Russian Interior Ministry, Russian National Guard, and Russian Army to replace the AKS-74U. The AM-17 features an integrated upper full-length MIL-STD/1913 Picatinny rail system, polymer side-folding and adjustable (telescoping) shoulder stock, and longitudinal slots in the walls of the upper receiver allowing for ambidextrous controls in both the fire selec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yevgeny Dragunov
Yevgeny Fyodorovich Dragunov (; February 20, 1920August 4, 1991) was a Soviet weapons designer, best known for his role in helping invent the semi-automatic rifle bearing his name, the Dragunov sniper rifle. Early life and education Coming from a family of gunsmiths, Dragunov worked as a factory machinist before beginning military service in 1939. Career After 1941, Dragunov was a senior armorer working for the Soviet Union and also captured enemy weapons during wartime. After 1945, he returned to Izhevsk and joined the Arms Design Bureau, working as a project engineer on sporting and civilian target rifles through the 1950s. One of these, the Biathlon target rifle, went on to the Olympic Gold. In 1959, Dragunov submitted his design for a military sniper rifle, the SVD, which was accepted into Soviet military service in 1963 and later became known as the Dragunov rifle. Dragunov also participated in the competition that led to the adoption of AKS-74U with a gas-operated design c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Free-floating Barrel
A free-floating barrel is a firearm design used in precision rifles, particularly match grade benchrest rifles, to accurize the weapon system. With conventional rifles, the gun barrel rests in contact with the fore-end of the gunstock, sometimes along the whole length. If the stock is wooden, environmental conditions or operational use may warp the wood, which may also cause the barrel to shift its alignment slightly over time, altering the projectile's external ballistics and thus the point of impact. Contact between the barrel and the stock affects the natural frequency of the barrel, which can reduce accuracy especially when the barrel gets hot with repeated firing. The effect of the stock on the barrel can cause the barrel to vibrate inconsistently from shot to shot, depending on the external forces acting upon the stock at the time of the shot. Such vibrations affect the bullet's trajectory, changing the point of impact. A free-floating barrel is one where the bar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forging
Forging is a manufacturing process involving the shaping of metal using localized compression (physics), compressive forces. The blows are delivered with a hammer (often a power hammer) or a die (manufacturing), die. Forging is often classified according to the temperature at which it is performed: cold forging (a type of cold working), warm forging, or hot forging (a type of hot working). For the latter two, the metal is heated, usually in a forge. Forged parts can range in weight from less than a kilogram to hundreds of metric tons.Degarmo, p. 389 Forging has been done by metalsmith, smiths for millennia; the traditional products were kitchenware, household hardware, hardware, hand tools, edged weapons, cymbals, and jewellery. Since the Industrial Revolution, forged parts are widely used in mechanism (engineering), mechanisms and machines wherever a component requires high strength of materials, strength; such forgings usually require further processing (such as machining) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Intermediate Cartridge
An intermediate cartridge is a rifle/ carbine cartridge that has significantly greater power than a pistol cartridge but still has a reduced muzzle energy compared to fully powered cartridges (such as the .303 British, 7.62×54mmR, 7.65×53mm Mauser, 7.92×57mm Mauser, 7.7×58mm Arisaka, , or 7.62×51mm NATO), and therefore is regarded as being "intermediate" between traditional rifle and handgun cartridges. As their recoil is significantly reduced compared to full-power cartridges, fully automatic rifles firing intermediate cartridges are relatively easy to control. However, even though they are less powerful than a traditional full-power cartridge, the external ballistics are still sufficient for an effective range of , which covers most typical infantry engagement situations in modern warfare. This allowed for the development of the assault rifle, a type of versatile selective fire small arms that is lighter and more compact than traditional battle rifles that fire f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Effective Range
Effective range is a term with several definitions depending upon context. Distance Effective range may describe a distance between two points where one point is subject to an energy release at the other point. The source, receiver, and conditions between the two points must be specified to define an effective range. Effective range may represent the maximum distance at which a measuring device or receiver will predictably respond to an energy release of specified magnitude. Alternatively, effective range may be the maximum distance at which the energy released from a specified device will cause the desired effect on a target receiver. Angular dispersion may be significant to effectiveness for asymmetrical energy propagation toward small targets. Weapons The following definition has been attributed to the United States Department of Defense: ''The maximum distance at which a weapon may be expected to be accurate and achieve the desired effect.'' Accuracy is ambiguous in the abse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TASS
The Russian News Agency TASS, or simply TASS, is a Russian state-owned news agency founded in 1904. It is the largest Russian news agency and one of the largest news agencies worldwide. TASS is registered as a Federal State Unitary Enterprise, owned by the government of Russia. Headquartered in Moscow, it has 70 offices in Russia and in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), "along with 56 global branches in 53 countries". In the Soviet period, it was named the Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union () and was the central agency of the Soviet government for news collection and distribution for all Soviet newspapers, radio and television stations. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, it was renamed Information Telegraph Agency of Russia (ITAR-TASS) () in 1992, but reverted to the simpler TASS name in 2014. Currently, on a daily basis TASS is "publishing nearly 3,000 news items in six languages and about 700 photographs and videos from correspondents in Russia and a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
