A large-caliber sniper rifle is an invariable attribute of army weapons

One of man's greatest creations is firearms. The trunk, from which various-caliber projectiles emerge with frenzied speed, making it searingly hot, is the subject of the obsequious worship of many people. They are afraid of him. They admire him. He is hated. And with all this continue to produce. After all, it is the weapon that is the niche of business, which always, under any conditions, will be in demand.

Army and Armament

Each country adequately educates its soldiers. This is an axiom. In this case, the military is in the arsenal of a huge number of different equipment. However, there is a classification of firearms: it is divided into combat and training. The latter is a model of the present, and is intended for the educational process in schools and other educational institutions. Combat, in turn, also has many different groups. So, a separate category is "Large-caliber sniper rifle". This weapon has gone a long way of its development, which totals more than one hundred years. History says that at the very end of the nineteenth century the first rifle was invented by the designer Mosin Sergey Ivanovich. Its modified version was widely used during the Revolution of 1917 , as well as in the Great Patriotic War.

In the early 40s of the twentieth century, the Soviet Army adopted another popular weapon, which was the automatic large-caliber sniper rifle (AKSV) "Cord". Its inventor was Vasily Degtyarev. Among the soldiers this equipment was called "St. John's wort". This nickname received the rifle because of its excellent combat characteristics: the German "animal" tanks "Panther" and "Tiger" lacked several hits of shells - and the "animal" was out of order.

National weapons

In the middle of the twentieth century, the leadership of the Soviet Army faced the question of complete rearmament. It was then that Soviet designers were faced with the fact: it is necessary to develop the best types of shooting equipment, in comparison with other countries, to which the large-caliber sniper rifle also belongs. The priority direction was considered the invention of a tool capable of self-charging. In the work on this project was attracted a huge number of talented people. Among them was Evgeny Fyodorovich Dragunov. At that time, this designer perfectly demonstrated his skills in creating excellent sports small arms. After spending a long twelve years, the Soviet Army received an amazing self-loading equipment, which became a large-caliber sniper rifle Dragunov. At that time, there were no similar analogues in the world. Even the US expressed a burning desire to acquire a dangerous "toy" of Soviet manufacture.

The evolution of small business

The development of weapons skills does not stand still, and within a few years many countries of the world have submitted their inventions to the military court. Soviet designers also do not sit around, and one by one they release their new modified "offspring". It is worth noting that after the middle of the 90s a large-caliber sniper rifle OSV 96 was invented at the Tula Arms Factory, the direct predecessor of which was the V-94 rifle. It is worth noting that even now Russian designers give military men excellent fighting units. An example of the latest achievement is the sniper rifle ORSIS T-5000. This firearm was produced in 2011 in Moscow.

Today in the world market of weapons and ammunition configures a huge amount of diverse equipment. At the same time, the largest sniper rifle was produced in the USA in 1982. Its modifications are in service in many countries around the world. The name of this weapon is the Barrett M107 rifle. It is slightly inferior to the Russian analogue - the modified ASVK "Cord".