Currently the mainstay ranged infantry weapon of the Russian military, the SVD has faithfully served ... Take an inside look at the Chukavin, Russia’s new sniper rifle] [Read More: This new ...

While broadly classed as a sniper’s weapon, it was meant to increase ... A shorter folding SVD was issued to Soviet forces in Afghanistan in the 1980s. In the early 1990s a faster loading ...

The SVD Dragunov isn’t just a rifle it’s a statement of Soviet military philosophy. Designed in the 1960s, it wasn’t meant to compete with Western sniper rifles in terms of pinpoint accuracy but to ...

The SVD rifle, although good by the standards of the early 1960s, is woefully obsolete for today’s battlefield. The Russian Army needed a new sniper weapon, and a new weapon had the potential to ...

In June, the Russian Armed Forces celebrated the 50th anniversary of the induction of the Dragunov sniper rifle (SVD). RIR gives you a lowdown of the designation of this powerful weapon, its ...

Despite the introduction of newer sniper systems, the Dragunov SVD remains a trusted and iconic weapon in the arsenal of Russian Special Forces. (What actually led to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.) ...

the obsolescent SVD “Dragunov” sniper rifle is still in the hands of many invading Russian snipers. During pre-invasion sniper training, nearly all of Moscow’s snipers had the older SVD rifles.

(These are World War II’s deadliest snipers ... name on this list is the Dragunov SVD, which has been in use since the 1960s. This Russian-made sniper rifle has a maximum effective range ...

(Photo from Kalashnikov Concern YouTube) For years, the Russian military has ... such great hits as the AK-47, the SVD, and the PM pistol, has decided it’s time to put its old DMR out to pasture ...